That said, I can tell you what i think is the latest buzzwords in the IT space these days. “Service Oriented Architecture”, “Cloud computing”, “grid computing”. Fancy terms for having a pool of computing/storage resources that you can reuse. In other words, buy your IBM stock now. It’s only a matter of time before mainframe makes a comeback.
I completely agree, nothing does back-end storage, processing, and delivery better than a mainframe. You can put whatever you want on your front-end servers that format and spew out web documents in XHTML/XML to your clients, but the real back-end storage and processing that will be necessary to support 100Mbps on-demant IPTV/streaming media to homes and mobile devices (100Mbps on Cellular networks has already been demonstrated) is going to be run on big iron. No cluster/grid networks of computers will be able to keep up with the kinds of demands we’re going to see in the coming days.
I am a network tech today but I do have mainframe operations experience, and it is all coming full circle. I can’t wait to get back to running mainframes again!
