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According to O'Malley, it is not just superior cost of
ownership but also a marked edge in quality of service that is driving
the market back to mainframes.
"The quality of service, security – always
virtues that have been substantially better than distributed solutions. With virtualisation, mainframe has been doing it for 30 years – it comes from
the roots of a finite thing and optimising it to a whole," says
O'Malley.
So what in O'Malley's view is causing large enterprises and some medium
sized enterprises to pay the money for a big box from IBM, HP or Sun
instead of a bank of commodity servers?
"You hear of disaster recovery tests. The mainfame came up no problem, the distributed solution never came back," says O'Malley.
"There is the quality of service issue, the security issue and also
also the cost. In the mainframe space, as workloads quadruple there are
less people caring for the mainframe and there is less people support needed,
while in the distributed model, because of the complexity, the number
of people go through the roof.
"The client/server model is too complex because of the nature of the
workloads. Also the capital component is very big. Some organisations
have a $1 million monthly electric bill from servers running at 5-10%
capacity - burning up money for no good reason.
"What VMware is trying to do with commodity servers was inspired by
what virtualisation did the on mainframe when it was released 37 years ago."
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