Case Study

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

Phil Murphy
 and  one contributors
Jul 12, 2011

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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