The heterogeneous nature of a data centre has really come to an interesting crossroads. If you pay attention to the mainframe world (and let's face it, nearly n

The heterogeneous nature of a data centre has really come to an interesting crossroads. If you pay attention to the mainframe world (and let's face it, nearly no one does) you might've noticed that IBM recently announced their new Z system [1] and it had an interesting feature. Namely, it can run Z books along with POWER7 blades and x86 blades in the same (admittedly very large) box. Basically, run your compute workloads on Power, database on x86, and control on Z. Seems like a pretty good idea to me! [1] http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/news/announcement/20100722_annc.html http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/news/announcement/20100722_a...