Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: >I will try to find out about that municipality how did they do that trick. >Just to satisfy my insane curiousity. :-)
Curiousity cured. ;-) From private correspondence: That municipality has an old m/f and has upgraded to a new z Box. Some applications were carried over, but there are now a good dose of SLES11 SP2 or SP3 there with a good lot of applications ported/developed over there. Other sources: http://www.ibm.com/news/za/en/2014/03/31/U770233P58807G38.html ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/zos/vse/pdf3/wavv14/Linux_on_IBM_System_z_better_and_more_secure.pdf From http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/44688.wss this (Same text from link posted by Steve): "Brazil's Algar Telecom replaced 80 Hewlett-Packard servers with an IBM mainframe platform, achieving savings of 50 to 70 percent in data center floor space, energy and cooling. At the same time, Algar increased operational efficiency by 30 percent. " "The eThekwini Municipality, a government organization in the province of KwaZulu-Natal that provides civic services to the approximately 3.5 million citizens of Durban, South Africa. Utilizing an IBM infrastructure, the government reduced the number of physical servers in its environment by 67 percent and reduced infrastructure complexity by 80 percent. As a result, it was able to improve time savings by 90 percent and launch new products 92 percent faster." ......etc..... This is not one shop, but many shops which are moving over to z Boxes to use zLinux on z/VM. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
