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If you zoom out, the ecosystem is very comparable to running on AWS or similar. It's an opinionated environment with proprietary answers for how to do things l
by tyingq 3y ago
If you zoom out, the ecosystem is very comparable to running on AWS or similar. It's an opinionated environment with proprietary answers for how to do things like scheduling, short-lived tasks, long-lived tasks, storage allocation, networks, monitoring, forced version upgrades, etc.
- jmartrican 3y agoI wonder if IBM can offer a mainframe in the cloud. Its everything a mainframe provides but all off-site and priced for my size.
- pjmlp 3y agoIt is already available, https://www.ibm.com/products/z-and-cloud-modernization-stack https://www.ibm.com/products/z-and-cloud-modernization-stack
- ghaff 3y agoYou mean timesharing? :-) I suspect that for most organizations that use mainframes today, there are so many integration points and so much data is involved that the economics that drove a lot of early-on timesharing no longer apply.
- p_l 3y agoIt's one of the major ways to get a mainframe these days, even companies you'd expect to have one on premises might actually have a lease on one running in IBM datacenter with VPN to internal network.