On Wednesday, 08/25/2010 at 09:10 EDT, "Graves, Aaron" <aaron.gra...@citi.com> wrote: > The implication is that these represent the leading edge of virtualization, > completely ignoring z/VM's capabilities. This happens time after time, > conference after conference and webcast after webcast. It's almost like z/VM > with zLinux exists in some parallel universe that is outside the perception of > the distributed world.
You were expecting something different? It is an advertisement from Red Hat about Red Hat. If they're trying to get business from VMware and Microsoft, why should they throw System z into the mix when neither VMware nor Microsoft offers a System z hypervisor? IBM is in the virtualization business on ALL platforms, so don't expect it to be in-your-face about one over the other. Each has their place. The zEnterprise puts an even finer point on it, bringing z, p, and x virtualization to one table. "I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony..." <group hug> Any advertisement from any source will be slanted in some way to show their product in the most favorable light. That's why it's called "advertising", not "information". Some vendors take more care than others to control the slant or include a footnote to identify it. (Note that IBM's use of words like "best" are relatively rare, since IBM will be instantly challenged to provide evidence of the claim.) If you want a scholarly examination of all virtualization, I think you'll have to talk to a consultant who is competent in all platforms and virtualization technologies. But even after you've done that, you'll still be faced with a fact you already knew: that sometimes z is better than x, and sometimes x is better than z. (repeat for all possible combinations of z, p, and x.) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
