[email protected] (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes: > 02: We are remaking enterprise IT for the era of cloud
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#106 The IBM Strategy Attack of the killer clouds and the coming IT storm http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/attack-of-the-killer-clouds-and-the-coming-it-storm-239006 Death by cloud and virtualization The specific IT dodo myth tends to revolve around the specter of virtualization combined with the private and public cloud. This multiheaded monster will turn all networks into self-sustaining, self-configuring, self-remediating benevolent SkyNets and, thus, kill the IT pro. When you have instant infrastructure provisioning, policy-based scalability, and a network that runs at the cut-and-paste level, not the crack-the-rack level, who needs IT pros? ... snip ... I've mentioned before the explosion in vm/4341s at large corporations ... ordering hundreds at a time and putting out in departmental areas ... sort of the leading edge of the distributed computing tsunamis. some old email http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx The high-end disks for datacenters were 3380s ... the the low-end and mid-range disks were all FBA (3310s & 3370s) ... sort of locking MVS out of the market. Eventually they came out with CKD 3375 (emulated on real FBA 3370, sort of the beginning of the end of real CKD ... which haven't been manufactured for decades). However, the MVS system care and feeding could easily to run to dozen or more people ... so didn't scale very well when talking about putting out hundreds in every departmental area. The big cloud massive megadatacenters now involve hundreds of thousands of systems with millions of processors, being managed by several scores of people. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
