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.