Minicomputers have become the history of IT development

Many large enterprises, represented by the server, have staged a kind of change in the little-known "hidden backstage"?

June 20, 2013, Alibaba last minicomputer off the assembly line!

Alibaba Group has replaced the Oracle database with an open source MySQL database since 2012 when it announced its IOE strategy in 2009. The farewell to the last minicomputer serving Alipay users for five years now marks yet another triumph of Alibaba's "Go IOE Campaign" to replace IBM, Oracte and EMC Corp. - The use of PC-Server hosting MySQL database, supporting the large amount of concurrent large amounts of data core business systems.

The new IT architecture is making Alibaba more open, flexible and efficient. In November 11, 2012 "Double 11" promotion, Taobao achieved 191 billion total turnover behind its Alipay core database cluster handled 4.1 billion transactions, the implementation of 28.5 billion SQL, generate 15TB logs. As Alipay wrote in Sina's official Weibo, "Alipay's secure and reliable service is backed by advanced technology."

Taobao has more than 20,000 PC-Servers (2011 data), supporting 19.1 billion transactions peak daily calculation, as well as behind 78 million package logistics and distribution. Server for the Internet industry, the basic supporting role of enterprises, can be seen. In the social information environment, the traditional enterprise Internet process is accelerating. With more and more industries, enterprises and application IT frameworks studying and moving closer to the Internet, more minicomputers will be replaced by PC-Servers in the future.

From the mainframe to the midrange, minicomputers, and then to the PC-Server, the smaller and smaller the size of the server, but its overall performance has rapidly surged. The price of a PC-Server is only about 1/10 of minicomputers, but the computing power is not much difference. Moreover, PC-Server lightweight and flexible size, IDC can have a lower energy consumption, higher energy efficiency.

On June 22, 2013, the third day of Alibaba's last miniaturization, Chen Yiwei, vice president of EMC China, wrote in Sina Weibo: "The minicomputers have become the IT development has passed Goodbye small machine! "