The whole cloud thing is just hype. It's just time sharing with the serial number filed off.
> but I'm stumped as to what it is about the mainframe that makes it so > wonderful for cloud. Well, a half century of experience with virtualization doesn't hurt. > * Mainframe MIPS are more expensive What is an instruction? Instructions are more expensive, but are function points? How many instructions does it take to do, e.g., a TR on an x86? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Phil Smith III <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 2:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: IBM Z and cloud I keep seeing things like a mailing today, "Mainframes and the Cloud: Made for Each Other". I'm as big a fan of IBM Z as the next guy, but I'm stumped as to what it is about the mainframe that makes it so wonderful for cloud. What it see: * IBM Z storage is more expensive * Mainframe MIPS are more expensive * I/O bandwidth is not usually the issue (network, but not local) Is this all just hype/hope? Or am I missing something? Inquiring minds. .phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
