Case Study

Server Sprawl And Cost Reduction Bring New Customers To Mainframe/Linux Platform

July 12th, 2011
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Phil Murphy
With contributor:
John Rymer

Summary

Trade press articles and industry pundits have been talking about the death of the mainframe for decades. Vendors use the phrase "mainframe modernization" as a euphemism for migrating applications from the mainframe to distributed platforms — what's new? A pendulum swing in the other direction — the high cost of server sprawl has some firms coming back to consolidate on a modern mainframe destination.

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