IBM brings elastic licensing to mainframes

By Simon Sharwood on Oct 14, 2018 3:57PM

Z gets a little bit cloudier.

IBM has made its Z mainframes just a little more cloud-like by introducing a new elastic licence. Big Blue’s mainframe licensing has for years revolved around “million service units” (MSUs). Customers license a number of MSUs, with usage calculated on a four-hour rolling ...

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