There are a couple of interesting articles in Enterprise Systems update http://tinyurl.com/nkptlb
Mainframe Proponents caution Big Iron Defectors While mainframe defectors like the TTX Co., the New York Stock Exchange and Meritz Financial Information Services tout their reasons for migrating off big iron onto x86 servers, mainframe proponents say there are plenty of reasons not to. Joe Clabby, who leads the analyst firm Clabby Analytics, said the trend off mainframes and onto x86 servers running virtualization is actually a step backward. "PCs are not mainframes, and VMware is nowhere near mainframes from an advanced virtualization and provisioning perspective," he said. "Mainframes are so much more advanced than VMware that it may take that customer 10 years to get what they have now in virtualization, automatic provisioning and workload management." Move CICS, DB2, IMS, TSO/ISPF and batch to specialty processors According to a recent analyst report on Neon Software's zPrime, mainframe users may soon be able to run traditional mainframe workloads on the IBM mainframe zIIP and zAAP specialty processors, lowering billable MIPs on the central processor. Lizette ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
