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Why would they do that instead of standard PC hardware?



IBM has many decades of innovations (and patents) on making their mainframe hardware super resilient.


My previous company had a large estate of linux and mainframe applications. While ensuring that the disaster recovery is implemented in linux applications was a nightmare with different standards and different ways of doing things, in mainframe it was inbuilt.

While the mainframe may be old and out of fashion, it did have the capabilities that we are rediscovering in Cloud, containers, VMs and all...




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