Traditional mainframe systems vs. x86 'software mainframe'

Traditional mainframe systems vs. x86 'software mainframe'

Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

 

 Traditional mainframe, meet the x86 'software mainframe'


The mainframe is a vertically integrated system with applications written specifically to take advantage of its specialized hardware through a single operating system (OS). X86 scale-out platforms, meanwhile, are clusters of commodity hardware linked together with software, which may run a number of different guest OSes.

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This was first published in May 2011