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IBM Saves $250M Running Linux On Mainframes

Posted by kdawson on from the mmmm-dogfood dept.

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."

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  1. Proof of Linux's Environmentalist Friendlyness by flayzernax · · Score: 5, Funny

    This proves Linux has a smaller carbon footprint then other OS's!

  2. Of course they're saving money by Trailer+Trash · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because they're using all that Microsoft IP without paying for it....

    (it's a joke)

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  3. Re:My employer recently 'consolidated' too. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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).

  4. Re:2000 sq feet per small computer? by RuBLed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Vacuum tubes = costly = takes up large space = less green = it's about time

    (I'm so sorry)

  5. Re:$250M?? by brxndxn · · Score: 4, Funny

    The old servers were Macs?

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  6. Re:IBM's been doing this for-ever, dude. by CodeMunch · · Score: 4, Funny

    But I did learn about optimizing instruction fetches by scattering the compiled code around the circumference of a magnetic drum so that the drum would have rotated around beneath the read head in time for the next instruction.
    Mel?? Is that you?