On 9/9/2014 8:36 AM, Mike Schwab wrote:
Somebody stole the servers ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-NpLu2xC38
Yeah, cute. But ... it was uploaded in 2006. Seen
anything this year?
-Steve Comstock
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
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
