l...@garlic.com (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes: > Cringely recently published: "The Decline and Fall of IBM" > http://www.cringely.com/2014/06/04/decline-fall-ibm/
loc1630-34: AFTERWORD What if Ginni Doesn't Listen? Here's what the IBM insider I quoted in my introduction says is coming today from Ginni Rometty's office: "Ginni is betting the farm on PureSystems. She is also betting the farm on Cloud. The problem is she is blaming flagging hardware sales on Cloud-ification." ... snip ... older cloud-ification CHARTS: Look How Astoundingly Cheap Cloud Computing Has Become http://www.businessinsider.com/astoundingly-cheap-cloud-computing-2014-5 and massive scale of operation at cloud megadatacenters (a typical megadatacenter will have more processing power than the aggregate of all mainframes in the world today) Intel chases hyperscale datacentres with FPGA bolt-on; Summary: Intel's latest move to make it easier for web and cloud giants to customise their infrastructure to their hyperscale workloads sees it introduce reconfigurable silicon. http://www.zdnet.com/intel-chases-hyperscale-datacentres-with-fpga-bolt-on-7000030718/ Intel unveils new Xeon chip with integrated FPGA, touts 20x performance boost http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184828-intel-unveils-new-xeon-chip-with-integrated-fpga-touts-20x-performance-boost past posts in this thread: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#2 Demonstrating Moore's law http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#4 Demonstrating Moore's law http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#5 Demonstrating Moore's law http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#6 Demonstrating Moore's law http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#7 Demonstrating Moore's law http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#8 Demonstrating Moore's law http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#9 Demonstrating Moore's law http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#10 Demonstrating Moore's law http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#11 Demonstrating Moore's law http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#12 Demonstrating Moore's law http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#13 Demonstrating Moore's law http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#15 Demonstrating Moore's law http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#16 Emulating z CPs was: Demonstrating Moore's law http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#17 Emulating z CPs was: Demonstrating Moore's law http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#20 Demonstrating Moore's law -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
