ESG = ? - KB
------- Original Message ------- On Tuesday, April 26th, 2022 at 3:30 PM, Matt Hogstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > I did have an interesting conversation with a customer recently where given > ESG they wanted to move relevant workload to zLinux because the power / VM / > container ratio was lower than an x86 farm to lower their carbon footprint; > I’m not sure if this is an edge case or not. > > For many Z customers they do want their supporting software on their platform > to ensure that they have control over those services. Again, its a personal > choice. My strategy is to move all functions that do not need to run in z/OS > available in containers on any platform the customer chooses to optimize > their cost on Z. > > Exciting times. > > Matt Hogstrom > PGP key 0F143BC1 > > > On Apr 25, 2022, at 23:29, David Crayford [email protected] wrote: > > > > On 26/4/22 01:03, Matt Hogstrom wrote: > > > > > > Given this constraint, we try to put CPU-intensive activities (such as > > > > code page conversion) on the faster-executing platforms. > > > > and for that reason zCX is very important for ISVs because it does > > > > offload to Ziips, provides an open technology platform and for > > > > customers that do not have vZM or IFLs we can deliver software easier > > > > using a familiar CI/CVD pipeline. > > > > The elephant in the room is that almost all customers will have x86 > > platforms available and it's trivial to stand up VMs using automation such > > as Red Hat Ansible. I suppose it comes down to politics again. The > > mainframe folks at some sites may be determined to run everything on z. > > That's not my experience with our customers who use our streaming products. > > They all run Splunk, Elastic, Kafka stacks on x86 and there's practically > > zero chance of them moving to z. I'm not knocking zCX. I think it's a great > > solution and can see a lot of use cases where it makes sense both > > technically and economically. I'm just highly dubious that running > > medium/large distributed software stacks is one of them. > > > > > Matt Hogstrom > > > [email protected] mailto:[email protected] > > > > > > "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by > > > stupidity.” - Hanlon’s Razor > > > > > > > > On Apr 25, 2022, at 12:44 PM, Ed Jaffe [email protected] > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > The z/OS version is not zIIP-eligible and is therefore running on > > > > knee-capped CPs in our environment. When running on Linux for Z it runs > > > > on an IFL which is fast (and SMT-threaded). The Linux for x86 version > > > > is also fast (and hyper-threaded). Given this constraint, we try to put > > > > CPU-intensive activities (such as code page conversion) on the > > > > faster-executing platforms. > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
