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ahh no AIX on the cloud?? got my hopes or fears up
by utnick 17y ago
ahh no AIX on the cloud??
got my hopes or fears up
- andr 17y agoI'm sure mainframes by the hour are in the pipeline.
- ShabbyDoo 17y agoIt's my understanding that they've been there for years. IBM will install a mainframe with N cores even if a company only wants to pay for N/2 cores initially. Then, the company can ask IBM to turn on the switch (or just turn it on themselves and be honest?) and increase its capacity. No idea if they can throttle back, say after Christmas, though. Of course, it's not a perfect parallel as IBM parks the whole thing in the customer's own datacenter. I think there may also be some pay-for-mips options as well.
- phoxix2 17y agoIBM still charges big banks CPU time on the bank's own hardware. Big bank backend apps are written to sleep as much as possible, and then do everything all at once in order to save on CPU costs.
- 100k 17y agoAs an AIX user/victim for a long time I was hoping/fearing to see that as well. :) Ah, AIX isn't too bad if you get the GNU utilities installed.