Comment Year of the Mainframe? (Score 5, Insightful) 222
As others have pointed out, the comment left a great deal out.
For example, any mainframe that can be replaced by 120 PC compute nodes isn't well utilized and/or is completely outmoded.
I had a chat with a gentleman once who participated in a replacement of multiple PC servers with a mainframe--but it entailed replacing 7,000 servers with a relatively high-end machine.
The result was that power and real estate savings alone paid for the mainframe--which had more capacity for future expansion as needed.
As always, proper implementation of the right equipment for the job is always crucial--and a shallow analysis that doesn't cover all the variables is simply misleading at best.
For example, any mainframe that can be replaced by 120 PC compute nodes isn't well utilized and/or is completely outmoded.
I had a chat with a gentleman once who participated in a replacement of multiple PC servers with a mainframe--but it entailed replacing 7,000 servers with a relatively high-end machine.
The result was that power and real estate savings alone paid for the mainframe--which had more capacity for future expansion as needed.
As always, proper implementation of the right equipment for the job is always crucial--and a shallow analysis that doesn't cover all the variables is simply misleading at best.
