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IBM moves towards consumption-based mainframe pricing IBM now offers Tailored Fit Pricing options for hardware and software with an eye toward hybrid-cloud enterprises. Credit: Dreamstime IBM continues to tweak its venerable mainframe to keep the Big Iron among the talking points in hybrid cloud. About a year ago the vendor changed its 20-year mainframe software pricing scheme to make it more palatable to hybrid cloud and multi-cloud users who might be thinking of moving workloads off the mainframe and into the cloud. Already IBM’s Tailored Fit Pricing for the IBM Z mainframe offers two consumption-based pricing models that can help customers cope with ever-changing workload and hence software costs. ....
IBM continues to tweak its venerable mainframe to keep the Big Iron among the talking points in hybrid cloud. About a year ago the company changed its 20-year mainframe software pricing scheme to make it more palatable to hybrid cloud and multicloud users who might be thinking of moving workloads off the mainframe and into the cloud. Already IBM’s Tailored Fit Pricing for the IBM Z mainframe offers two consumption-based pricing models that can help customers cope with ever-changing workload and hence software costs. Now it has brought that same as-needed pricing scheme to the hardware side of the Z under the name Tailored Fit Pricing for IBM Z - Hardware Consumption Solution. It offers what IBM calls a “more standardized and transparent cloud-like hardware pricing model with combined base capacity and consumption-priced capacity.” ....