Stacking Up IBM i And Windows In The Clouds

August 5, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

So how does the IBM Cloud running IBM i stack up against the main competition in the midrange, which is on premises Windows Server plus SQL Server from Microsoft as well as that same stack running in the Amazon Web Services cloud? We can’t give you a definitive answer, but we can give you some food for thought as you ponder how good of a deal Big Blue is giving customers who want to put IBM i on the cloud.

Making comparisons between on premises iron and cloudy infrastructure is difficult and problematic. The good thing about a public cloud …