Comment Re:Unfortunately... (Score 1) 190
Even corporate dinosaurs that have legacy mainframe operations that go back decades are moving to VM clustering because of the inherent advantages. When I worked for one of these dinosaurs last year, I was walking through the mainframe operations group and someone had a thing printed on the side of her cube extolling that it would take 400 x86 servers to equal their S390. Someone from the VM engineering team had taken a sharpie to it and crossed out the "400 x86 servers" and written on "10 VMware hosts".
It seems that a lot of "big iron" people don't even recognize the existence of the inherent scalability advantages that VMs provide, even though their mainframes have been doing the same thing for decades.