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IBM is dead until it gets Z mainframes and Power servers in big a three data center (AWS, GCP, Azure). Guessing Microsoft will start with putting mainframes in
by crb002 7y ago
IBM is dead until it gets Z mainframes and Power servers in big a three data center (AWS, GCP, Azure).
Guessing Microsoft will start with putting mainframes in the West Des Moines data center since so many insurance companies are still dependent on DB2 batch crunching.
- wolfgke 7y ago> IBM is dead until it gets Z mainframes and Power servers in big a three data center (AWS, GCP, Azure). Google is using POWER9 servers in their data centers: > https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2018/03/19/headed-into-its-fifth-year-openpower-has-momentum-into-the-power9-generation/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2018/03/19/head... > https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/03/26/google-and-its-hyperscale-peers-add-power-to-the-server-fleet/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/03/26/google-and-its-hyper... Of course, most of their servers are still x86; as far as I am aware, the reason why Google also uses POWER9 servers is that they don't want to be too dependent on the two manufacturers of x86 CPUs.