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"Korean insurer Samsung Life Insurance shut down its IBM zSeries
mainframes, shifting a 7,000 MIPS workload, including loan, contract and
payment systems to two HP Itanium 2-based Superdomes running HP-UX."
http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci1214459,00.html
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Start the timers! let's see how long it takes them to switch back. My
guess is the first time they have to deal with all the claims from a
major disaster, that system will fail miserably. Not because of the CPU
time; far more likely that the I/O load will kill it.
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