[ Cloud Computing ] Re: Big Players cornered the cloud?

By what standard? Popularity? Number of people? Number of Systems?
Amount of advertising? Amount of revenue? Number of production
systems? Or just because they are not vmware or microsoft?

IBM has customers who regularly run 150+ production systems in logical
partitions on non-mainframe based servers, and their are customer who
are pushing the limit on mainframe servers, many thousands of
customers run mainframe virtualization, in fact these days you can't
buy a mainframe without it.

Back in 1992 I was working with a customer who regularly ran 22k
virtual machines on a single mainframe.

Back in 1983 I was the first person to move a production credit card
processing system into a virtualized environment by adding 4Mb of
memory onto an 8Mb memory system, for the extra 4Mb we got a small
test system we could use to boot and start-up the application software
stack. In those days I was working at Chemical Bank in NY.

++Mark.
http://cathcam.wordpress.com

On Dec 14, 11:12 am, Sarre9 <lask...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Saad,
>
> I heard something very similar about 5 years ago when virtualization
> first started to appear. The head of new IT tech at the company I
> worked at felt that virtualization was not worth looking into until
> IBM had outlined their technical direction. While IBM was in early,
> they today aren't considered the number 1 or 2 virtualization player.

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