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."

Comments

Re:IBM's been doing this for-ever, dude.

[mstahl]

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?

Re:$250M??

[RockoTDF]

No, the POWER architecture is what IBM uses in their servers and high end workstations. PowerPC is a stripped down version that was used by apple prior to the intel switch.