Ever on the cutting edge
amongst government agencies, NASA announced it has shut down its last mainframe
to complete its move to smaller, distributed systems running Linux and other
systems.
In a Feb. 11 blog post, NASA CIO Linda Cureton wrote
that NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center powered down an IBM Z9 mainframe the
agency acquired in 2004. However, as the agency began to modernize it moved off
the mainframe environment and soon came down to one.
In response to questions
about why NASA decided to get rid of the final piece of IBM big iron, Cureton
said:
“We only kept the mainframe
around to support applications that we knew would soon be retired. In that case,
it was more cost-effective to keep the as-is architecture in place rather than
migrate to a server environment. When we were in the position to retire the
applications, retiring the mainframe made sense.
“There had been no new
application development on the mainframe here for a while. Our larger business
applications run on SAP in a non-mainframe environment. The retirement also
realized cost savings in software licenses.”
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