Dave Kopischke writes: >600 servers to replace 1 1600 MIPS mainframe ??? It reads like >there's more to it than this, but it's still incredible. The >annual power bill alone could probably buy a new z9.
I can only go by what's in the article -- I have no information on this situation. The article does not say that 600 servers replaced one 1,600 MIPS mainframe. It does not say the mainframe is actually replaced. In fact, the article suggests the 600 servers weren't the only ones intended to replace the mainframe, and it suggests there are actually more than 600 servers involved, perhaps many more. The article also suggests that the New York Stock Exchange has run out of data center space, power, and/or cooling, and they are looking for yet another data center location. Last I checked adding an extra data center isn't free, particularly for a stock exchange. The article is very thin on even asserted business benefits. There are few if any assertions about service qualities. There's nothing mentioned about how the NYSE would recover their thousands of servers in a disaster, and what business interruption or data loss they would suffer (and for how long) in the event of a disaster. There is nothing said about energy consumption (except oblique suggestions that it's a major problem). And I found this IT-related assertion incredible: "We have only a handful of underutilized servers...." But that's my read just looking at the words on the screen, so you all might have seen something different in the article and/or have better information than I do. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
