VMware ’shoddy’ and full of bugs; use the mainframe instead
John Toigo, the keynote speaker this morning at Data Center Decisions, is not very high on VMware ESX. During his speech on disaster recovery planning, he said that he is testing VMware in his lab and found that it’s full of bugs.
Toigo, the CEO and managing principal of Toigo Partners International, added that he can’t understand why people continue “wallow” to VMware like “penguins on their bellies.”
“Put in a z/OS mainframe,” he said. “The costs are actually less than having a bunch of tinker-toy servers running shoddy software.”
Posted: October 22nd, 2007 under Mainframe servers, Data center disaster recovery planning.
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