Stating that IBM is now a services company, Warren Buffet has made his first investment in a computer manufacturer or what many may still call a technology company. Richard Waters of FT believe it is brand and a bet on the changing landscape of where computing power is located. Warren Buffett has famously steered clear…
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Teaching an old dog an old trick – Mainframes in the Clouds
According to Bruce Hoard more and more x86 workloads are returning to the big box. And with good reason. In his Mainframe Clouds Roll In article, Hoard talks about the factors that make mainframes great hardware for the cloud. From their time-sharing beginnings, mainframes were built from the ground up to perform work for different…
Equinix Marketplace Seeks to Connect Customers
By: Rich MillerOctober 24th, 2011 Tweet When carriers and Internet companies go looking for business partners, sometimes they need look no further than the cabinets sitting beside them in the data center. This potential is seen in the Internet itself, which is made possible by physical linkages between networks. But it’s hard to form a…