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I'd parse that as customers which have mainframes are also doing hybrid cloud. They don't overtly state that the mainframe workloads are going to cloud, just t
by luma 5y ago
I'd parse that as customers which have mainframes are also doing hybrid cloud. They don't overtly state that the mainframe workloads are going to cloud, just that some number of customers who have mainframes also have cloud workloads, and that number will probably be bigger than it was before.
When dealing with IBM, it's always safest to assume the weaseleiest interpretation of their weasel words.
- rbanffy 5y agoAlso, you can virtualize a lot of Linux boxes inside a full LinuxONE machine. And almost a gigabyte of L4 cache for every four 5.2 GHz CPs makes it a seriously fast single-thread machine. Add to that all that hardware offloading for IO and you end up with a lot more capacity that you'd have on the same datacenter volume.
- deviledeggs 5y agoIt's not as good as it's sounds, especially with new Ryzen cores. IBM won't let you do benchmark comparisons, but I've found unofficial ones that show Ryzen is almost 3X performance per thread on general purpose workloads. You can get a 32 core 64 thread Ryzen for $2000. And it should have around 2/3 the performance of a top of the line z15 mainframe that costs $200,000+ . And the Ryzen is a single chip, so the rest of the hardware is cheap and compact.