Explaining Mainframe Pricing to the Cloud Guys

Explaining Mainframe Pricing to the Cloud Guys

In these days of hybrid cloud working with some applications working best in a cloud environment and some that work best on the mainframe, there’s going to come a time when mainframers and cloud people are going to be sitting in the same room and the way computing is...

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CPU Based Pricing Models

CPU Based Pricing Models

How well is your mainframe outsourcer managing capacity and performance? Part 5: CPU based pricing models This is the fifth in a series of blogs about how to follow up on your mainframe outsourcer. Previously I’ve discuss why it is important to follow up on your...

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Mainframe Pricing: Endgame

Mainframe Pricing: Endgame

IBM Simplifying Mainframe Software Pricing When you hear the words mainframe software pricing, what do you think of? A common reaction is to ignore it unless you are actively negotiating a new contract with IBM. And even then, the general consensus is that it is...

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What is container pricing?

What is container pricing?

Container Pricing, which was introduced in late-2017, is a new pricing solution that makes scaling workloads more economical. Container Pricing is a framework for hosting simplified and flexible software pricing for qualified workloads running on z13 or z14...

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