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The hardware part is doable. The software is another matter and becomes
a portion of the problem, it's more than just the OS, it's all the other
LPPs that you would expect as well.
You are also ignoring several other major cost items. The physical
plant needs to be fully protected from a security, power, and cooling
perspective. You will need to provide recovery/back up and an SLA that
makes sense. That's all in addition to the internet bandwidth that
needs to be provided. All of these things add to the fixed cost of
operations.
Also, no one is going to make this investment with a 60 month payback.
It needs to be way shorter than that.
All that said, Larry and I are working towards a solution.
Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
iDevCloud.com
On 11/12/2010 5:04 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:
An IBM i license on a model 720 is $2,245 per core.
Dividing that between 30-40 partitions would make it pretty cheap per
partition. Amortizing that across 5 years seems pretty economical too. I
understand that a company like IBM can achieve greater economies of scale, but
it might work for a small shop to get into cloud services too.
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