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RE: IBM: The mainframe is back
Mawdo 19th Aug 2008
(Nice) to hear a few baby-boomer-babies thinking 'cos it aint new it aint good.

When you spend months integrating dozens of individual boxes, trying to provide some semblance of unified backup and restore across these platforms as well as provisioning a SAN with virtualised storage iSCSI etc. You soon feel warmer to the unified all-in-box solutions IBM (at the least) provide with p, i and z series.

I yearn for the days when one unstoppable box ran nearly all the facilities for our 1000's of users and that was before IBM had their epiphany and made this hardware so much more flexible.

I am not saying IBM are perfect - they are far from it. But well considered, well designed and engineered solutions on a Mainframe or Mid-Range system will provide a reliable and simple to manage platform for end users for years and yes you can use Web "niceness". Can you say all that about 5 dozen loosely coupled servers? Rarely!
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