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I bumped into an old friend of my mine the other day....we both used to work in Standard Life...in a place called the Data Centre.
It was a fairly big building....offices all upstair....but the basement contained the massive mainframe systems....covered the whole floor. In fact they were so big, the buidling desingers have used them to heat the building.
When I left....some 10 years ago now, the main frame was half the size it was, but with absolutly loads more power.
But we were chatting...and we both wondered do big companies like Standard Life still use large mainframe systems or are they starting to be killed off with something smaller and just as powerful?
It was a fairly big building....offices all upstair....but the basement contained the massive mainframe systems....covered the whole floor. In fact they were so big, the buidling desingers have used them to heat the building.
When I left....some 10 years ago now, the main frame was half the size it was, but with absolutly loads more power.
But we were chatting...and we both wondered do big companies like Standard Life still use large mainframe systems or are they starting to be killed off with something smaller and just as powerful?