Re: The Mainframe vs. the Server Farm: A Comparison

2017-05-23 Thread Waite, Dick (External)
just like to say the SUSE SLES12 SP-3 Beta is running very well, and KVM is looking very good on the s390x. __R From: Linux on 390 Port [LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] on behalf of Dave Jones [djo...@itconline.com] Sent: 23 May 2017 20:08 To:

Re: The Mainframe vs. the Server Farm: A Comparison

2017-05-23 Thread John Campbell
Cool... Though the real key is that the mainframe is designed for something at or beyond five 9s (99.999%) uptime. [HUMOR] Heard from a Tandem guy: "Your application, as critical as it is, is on a nine 5s (55.555%) platform." [/HUMOR] While other server farms (and I've worked with the USF

The Mainframe vs. the Server Farm: A Comparison

2017-05-23 Thread Dave Jones
An interesting article from our friends at SUSE https://dzone.com/articles/the-mainframe-versus-the-server-farm-a-comparison Enjoy. DJ -- ITC-email-sig *David Jones **|**Managing Director for zSystems Services **|**z/VM, Linux, and Cloud 703.237.7370 (Office) **|**281.578.7544 (Cell)*