_{Wednesday, August 1st, 2007}

IBM Corp announced today that it will be consolidating about 3900 servers on to roughly 30 System Z mainframes running the Linux operating system.

Using a technique called virtualization, IBM plans to divide the massive computing power of a the single mainframes into hundreds or thousands of smaller virtual servers thereby saving enough energy to power a small town. The consolidation will also free a large number of IBM’s system administrators to work on more profitable projects.

Since 1997, IBM has consolidated its strategic worldwide data centers from 155 to seven moving toward a greener and more profitable computing platform.

Read more about this in the IBM press release.

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