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Traditional mainframe, meet the x86 'software mainframe' |
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| 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
Data Center Strategies for the CIO
