The system also relies on 50 terabytes of RAM, arranged on a Storage Area Network using Compaq's Storageworks EVA architecture. Compaq has built Europe's largest supercomputer to simulate the testing of nuclear weapons for the French government.
The $1m price tag is not the fully configured cost.m is more realistic. IBM's argument is it is always striving to reduce the total cost of ownership of mainframe. Sun Microsystems believes it can steal IBM's mainframe customers with its newly...
But what would happen if the world really did start demanding ROI cases for every decision? This all means no self respecting corporate sales person turns up to a sales call without their ROI or total cost of ownership (TCO - that other addictive...
Mainframes today can offer solutions to surprisingly small workloads while retaining the capability to scale up to largest size possible. When it comes to considering whether mainframe computers are 'expensive' one can get involved in some very...
HP is unveiling the StorageWorks EVA 3000, which offers many of the features of its existing EVA product, but has a lower total capacity as well as a lower price tag. HP, for its part, is aiming the StorageWorks EVA 3000 at the EMC CX400, adding an...
However, Gartner argues that at the operating-system level, Linux deployments are showing smaller benefits in total cost of ownership as it is applied to more demanding projects, because of the technical skills required to use it: "Much of the...