IMHO it depends.
First, it depends on what we understand as outsourcing.
1. I buy HW and SW and keep it in my datacenter. Oh, BTW: the
application software is mine, not delivered from outside.
2. Application is delivered, and there are many options how to maintain it.
3. I keep HW in leased DC.
4. I rent HW from DC owner.
5. I rent HW from DC owner and some services like cabling, servicing, etc.
6. DC owner takes care about switches and maybe other things.
...
etc.
Regarding Zcloud - I believe it depends on your expectations how deep
the outsourcing would be.
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Radoslaw Skorupka
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Lodz, Poland
W dniu 27.05.2021 o 15:22, Keith Gooding pisze:
I have been asked if a z/OS software product is supported on IBM Zcloud.
As far as I can see Zcloud is just old-fashioned outsourcing where a z/os
system runs in an LPAR on someone else’s computer, albeit with the ability to
dynamically add computing resources for temporary workload spikes etc.
Am I missing something or is there ‘proper’ cloud technology, such provisioning
of middleware using cloud provisioning like AWS etc.
Keith Gooding
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