You should post a comment to his blog about that missing point. Mark T. Regan, K8MTR
CTO1, USNR-Retired 1969-1991 On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht < [email protected]> wrote: > Mark Regan wrote: > > > > http://www.networkworld.com/article/2916081/network-management/big-iron-and-banking-why-all-major-banks-rely-on-mainframes-and-are-growing-their-use-of-mainframes.html > > Hmmm, Interesting, but that article forgot point 6 - I fill it in for you: > > It is 'greener' and 'cheaper' to run a mainframe comparing with a > 'server-farm'. Think, one CEC can run multiple Linux virtual machines, > whereas you need a floor full of servers ('server-farm') which guzzle > electricity in terms of power and air-conditioning. > > >"I recently learned about a bank in Japan that has been using a mainframe > since the 1970's without a single second of downtime. Its architecture > allows for full software and hardware upgrades without an outage." > > Interesting. > > 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
