SuperMicro is beginning to make the lines between Tier 1 and Tier 2 blurry as they increase their level of engineering on their products and begin to offer more and more enterprise class support for their products.

@coliver said:

Oh, I've heard of Power, just wasn't aware they were still making it. Thanks.

IBM i Series, P Series and mainframes are still around. Anything running AIX, System i, System z, etc. are on Power. Linux and several BSDs support Power too.

Yup, probably not a good time to sell.

I love the support/web dev companies that contact me with no opt out using gmail accounts. They change the from address each time but not the sales pitch.

http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/ibm-invests-1-billion-into-new-z13-mainframe-platform.html

There are lots of vendors out there that will slice you a partition on a larger iSeries or even give you a blade and shared storage, even IBM will do it. It was one of my DR solutions for my last job, ship tapes to Rochester and load a slice up.

For xSeries, don't know. AIX is also a different beast and doesn't do the same thing that OS/400 does for partitioning.

InfoWorld has a new article on this now....

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2835664/tech-industry/three-ways-ibm-can-shine-after-shedding-its-cpu-division.html

@JaredBusch said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

How come they don't fail over the VMs to another server, then update the original server move them back and so on as to make it an update with no down time?

Cloud is not high availability. That's a very common misconception. Cloud is beneath the HA layer. Anyone who had HA stayed up and running, of course, but cloud itself is not HA.

They easily could have chosen to do so, but the workload would not offset the cost I am sure.

Not really, because you can only do so much HA at that layer. Not every workload can be made HA in that way. But more importantly, HA is always an option and most importantly, HA is something you do, not something that you buy. But anyone who had an outage, like us, chose to not pay for HA because it is cheaper to have blips than to have the cost of HA.

It's really the end users who opted out of HA.

And I'd be remiss if I didn't at least say...go Federer!

Very true. It is already quite amazing that Blackberry still exists at all.

In the US it is illegal to disclose those things. So denying it means nothing, sadly.