Mainframes can find new life hosting private clouds
Posted by Mike on Monday, July 18, 2011
With a bit of touching up and reconfiguring, a mainframe can be an easy and cost-effective way to host a private cloud
Mention cloud computing to a mainframe professional, and he’ll likely roll his eyes. Cloud is just a much-hyped new name for what mainframes have done for years, he’ll say.
“A mainframe is a cloud,” contends Jon Toigo, CEO of Toigo Partners International, a data management consultancy in Dunedin, Fla.
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