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FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes

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Re: FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes

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Post by Thorentis »

Is there any gain here aside from cost saving? Will this saving be passed on to the customer? (laughs). What happens when the inevitable AWS outage then causes a global shipping bottleneck? Have we still not learnt that having sovereignty is better than saving money? Has COVID taught us nothing? sigh

Re: FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes

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Post by sokoloff »

sschueller wrote: post #2

So are the moving to AWS? Are we going to have a complete breakdown of packages delivery next time there is an outage at AWS?

The article says: The company is a known Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure customer.

With Amazon being a formidable logistics competitor, I can see why Fedex might be loath to fund a major competitor.

Re: FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes

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Post by jupp0r »

Thorentis wrote: post #4

Is there any gain here aside from cost saving? Will this saving be passed on to the customer? ( laughs ). What happens when the inevitable AWS outage then causes a global shipping bottleneck? Have we still not learnt that having sovereignty is better than saving money? Has COVID taught us nothing? sigh

What makes you think that a cloud provider outage is more likely than an existing-Fedex-datacenter outage?

Re: FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes

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Post by dchftcs »

Thorentis wrote: post #4

Is there any gain here aside from cost saving? Will this saving be passed on to the customer? ( laughs ). What happens when the inevitable AWS outage then causes a global shipping bottleneck? Have we still not learnt that having sovereignty is better than saving money? Has COVID taught us nothing? sigh

I'm not sure having mainframes counts as sovereignty. Yearly savings suggests it doesn't.

Re: FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes

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Post by sokoloff »

Thorentis wrote: post #4

Is there any gain here aside from cost saving? Will this saving be passed on to the customer? ( laughs ). What happens when the inevitable AWS outage then causes a global shipping bottleneck? Have we still not learnt that having sovereignty is better than saving money? Has COVID taught us nothing? sigh

What’s to gain other than $400M in savings every year indeed?

If it drops all the way to the bottom line, that would boost their 2022 profits by 35% and 2021 profits by about 45%. Seems like a decision you have to consider, even with possible failure modes.

Re: FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes

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Post by ehnto »

joekrill wrote: post #3
sschueller wrote: post #2

So are the moving to AWS? Are we going to have a complete breakdown of packages delivery next time there is an outage at AWS?

> The company is a known Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure customer.

Hard to say for certain. Companies that size often have many very independent operations run by separate internal departments. I have worked places with internal, AWS and Azure operations underway.

Re: FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes

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Post by rbanffy »

sokoloff wrote: post #5
sschueller wrote: post #2

So are the moving to AWS? Are we going to have a complete breakdown of packages delivery next time there is an outage at AWS?

The article says: The company is a known Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure customer. With Amazon being a formidable logistics competitor, I can see why Fedex might be loath to fund a major competitor.

> The company is a known Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure customer.

I guess I'll prepare for the inevitable apocalypse then...

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