[geeks] IBM Z series servers

[Joshua D. Boyd]

I hear that there is a company up in Canada doing that, and of course, the
Italian telco is the most famous case.  Well, I don't remeber what the
Italian telco is doing, but it had something to do with special high
speed connections to customers, and needing a "dedicate machine" for each
customer.  But then, they found that a new VM partition was close enough
to a dedicated computer to do the job, and save them a lot of money in the
process.

Personally, I couldn't really see wanting to use an IBM for much else than
a database server, but if I had one, I suppose a few small partitions for
email and dns wouldn't hurt.

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Joshua Boyd

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, David Murphy wrote:

> Quoting <B21DC65B35E6D211BDC1009027626F7D0220FF29 at icti_mail.icti-usa.com>
> by Ken Hansen <Ken.Hansen at ICTI-USA.com>:
> 
> > No details here, but a real nice use is the one someone else
> > reported here - dedicated virtual web servers "while you wait". "In
> > the time it takes your credit card to clear, you can have your own
> > dedicated web server on-line!"
> 
> Are there (m)any companies actually doing that in real life though?
> 
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