Mainframes in the Age of Cloud Computing Mainframes may be 1960s technology, but they still manage a huge portion of the world’s data. This is mainly because of two reasons – i) continuous improvement of the technology and ii) the huge costs involved in changing them en masse. However, in today’s world of cloud computing when companies are looking at decreasing their IT footprints, bulky mainframes may seem archaic. But not so if they are used in the proper manner. Some time back I had written about how cloud computing represented the logical flow of advancement from bulky mainframes to
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Mainframes in the Age of Cloud Computing
by sourya on July 25, 2011
in Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Education, IT, Performance, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology, Trends, Web Hosting
