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IBM Saves $250M Running Linux On Mainframes
coondoggie writes "Today IBM will announce it is consolidating nearly 4,000 small computer servers in six locations onto about 30 refrigerator-sized mainframes running Linux, saving $250 million in the process. The 4,000 replaced servers will be recycled by IBM Global Asset Recovery Services. The six data centers currently take up over 8 million square feet, or the size of nearly 140 football fields."
This proves Linux has a smaller carbon footprint then other OS's!
Because they're using all that Microsoft IP without paying for it....
(it's a joke)
Do you have ESP?
for AIX on those mainframes! After all, AIX has more Unix IP than Linux, isn't it?
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
You're supposed to turn off and sell off the servers you replace. (Score -1: Obvious).
(Strange thing is, I make a good living replacing aging mainframes by linux clusters. mainframes are fine when you're doing transaction processing. But for cpu-bound stuff, you're better off with a room full of opterons).
It would but Blendtec would need to consolidate their 4,000 blenders to around 30 refrigerator sized ones....
Vacuum tubes = costly = takes up large space = less green = it's about time
(I'm so sorry)
The old servers were Macs?
--- We need more Ron Paul!
Can I have the old ones?
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
I should hope so!
8,000,000 ft^2 / 4,000 servers = 2,000 ft^2 per server
My god, those are large servers! They must still be using vacuum tubes...or maybe a 65cm manufacturing process.
@ASP.NET's parent-teacher meeting: "Little Johnny.NET is very bright, but he doesn't play well with others."
The extra space is for sufficient ventilation for the sweaty Sysadmin. Nobody wants to go near him.
Cheers, Chris
*shiver*
Please don't say that word. I get chills and shivers.
It's been already three years since I had to use it, but even seeing the name of Lotus Notes (AAH, MY FINGERS!) makes me curl up and sob on the floor.
What a great product!
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...by switching to Geico.
I put the 't' in electrical engineering.
The six data centers currently take up over 8 million square feet, or the size of nearly 140 football fields.
In metric, that would be around 104 soccer fields.