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Standing Up For Mainframes


Posted by Andrew Conry-Murray, Sep 22, 2008 09:00 PM

Server virtualization gets lots of press these days, but don't be so quick to drop the big iron.


Jon Toigo, who blogs at Drunken Data (and has written for our sister site Network Computing), put up an interesting post this week about the viability of mainframes.

I'll let Jon make his argument here, but I'd also like to throw open the floor to our readers.

Have you replaced or are considering replacing a mainframe with a distributed virtual server environment? What are the pros and cons? Let us know.

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