Re: p and i systems reliability

["Hans Boldt" <hans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Pete wrote:
> I haven't seen this referenced here and I came across this while
> scanning the weekly SANS bulletin. I was a reference to an article
> from The Register: "IBM Power: good. Windows: not so much"
>
> *http://tinyurl.com/lu76z5*
>
> "Among the customers surveyed by ITIC, IBM's Power Systems running
> AIX experienced (this includes older System p and pSeries iron)
> the least amount of downtime per year, when averaged across all
> customers using these platforms. AIX shops reported an average of
> 0.42 Tier 1 incidents per year and 0.34 Tier 2 incidents, and not
> one customer reported a Tier 3 outage on their AIX boxes. The Power
> Systems machines (and this includes older System i and iSeries
> iron) had an average of 0.56 Tier 1 outages per year, 0.44 Tier 2
> outages per year, and 0.12 Tier 3 outages. So in 2009 at least, the
> i platform fared a little worse than the AIX platform running on
> Power iron."
>
> Pretty much a "duh" for us i folks but *just* in case some of you
> are fighting the "switch to Windows" battle, it might be some
> additional ammo for staying on the i.

Actually, Pete, this also provides even better justification for moving to
AIX on Power.

;-)

Cheers! Hans