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Is anyone reselling mainframe-backed VPSes then? If all this is true, they should work better and be more profitable.
by rini17 5y ago
Is anyone reselling mainframe-backed VPSes then? If all this is true, they should work better and be more profitable.
- rbanffy 5y agoMarist College does that for free. You can get a Linux VM from the LinuxONE Community Cloud that runs on a z15. You can have it for 6 months.
- belter 5y agoNot sure about that, but the idea I was proposing was use the technical capabilities that allow them to build the mainframe. I am aware of the usual challenges of distributed computing, eventual consistency, etc... But they could have created a computing offer, using the pure core performance of the Z processors and the technologies that enable things like z/OS Sysplex and do it at cloud scale. They could then maybe be competitive on a price scale: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-basic-skills?topic=sysplex-zos https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-basic-skills?topic=sysplex-z... This would be similar to AWS telling you could have your CPU core stretched across two availability zones.