Thanks Mike, but I believe that is shown only in the US. Us mere mortals in the Olde Worlde get no such gems. And that is quite a good ad as ads go.
ALH -----Original Message----- From: Mike Schwab <[email protected]> To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 15:36 Subject: Re: Another shop that has -- no, wait, what? Somebody stole the servers ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-NpLu2xC38 On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Aled Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for that 'cure' Elardus, much appreciated! > > Now, why don't IBM use this information to advertize their wares? If I was in IBM 'marketing', this would be broadcast on TV ads and newspaper ads! Please wake up the IT world to good news, IBM, and 'share the word'! Wouldn't it be in IBM's interest to promote such a solution? Or am I being naïve? > > OK, rant off. Time to go pick some tomatoes. > > ALH > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]> > To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 11:21 > Subject: Re: Another shop that has -- no, wait, what? > > > 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 > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
