I remember about 20+ years ago there was "dial a vm" from IBM for customers. By the time you had phoned up, given your credit card details it had created a second level system for you to play with.
"We did it first on z" Colin On Sat, 29 May 2021 at 12:45, Scott Chapman <scott.chap...@epstrategies.com> wrote: > I think one important distinction of cloud vs. outsourcing is the > ephemeral nature of the resources in cloud computing. I.E. the ability to > start from zero, provision compute and storage resources of some type > (either manually or automatically in response to changing conditions) and > then deprovision them similarly after using the resources for perhaps mere > minutes or hours. The cost is determined by what you used for the duration > you used it, typically billed to an interval of minutes or sometimes even > seconds. And since it has on-ramp starting at zero infrastructure and zero > cost, you can easily try out ideas at a cost of something you can put on a > credit card. Infrastructure is charged in increments of pennies. And if it > doesn't work out, you turn it off and your charges stop.* > > Last I knew, and I would like to be proven wrong, zCloud didn't embody the > idea of "I want to play with z/OS for a few hours, stand up a z/OS image > with x CPU and y GB of disk and put it on my credit card". > > *-Remember: in the cloud, you pay for what you forgot to turn off. And > those pennies can add up shockingly fast in some cases! > > Scott Chapman > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
