With IBM's Parallel Sysplex technology, you can harness the power of up to 32 z/OS systems, yet make these systems behave like a single, logical computing facility. What's more, the underlying structure of the Parallel Sysplex remains virtually transparent to users, networks, applications, and even operations.
To accomplish all this, the z/OS Parallel Sysplex combines two critical capabilities: The first is parallel processing, and the second is enabling read/write data sharing across multiple systems with full data integrity.
This combination makes the z/OS Parallel Sysplex unique among every other system, solution, or architecture available today. And, it results in a scalable growth path that extends beyond billions of instructions per second.
The true value of the z/OS Parallel Sysplex technology can be found in the business benefits it offers your enterprise. This unique structure gives you the flexibility to resolve key business issues such as:
- Reducing your overall cost of computing
- Parallel Sysplex License Charges (PSLC)
- Providing rapid, flexible responses as your business needs change
- Ensuring the continuous availability of your IT assets
- Leveraging your past IT investments
As a result, Parallel Sysplex gives you an IT foundation that will support your business goals—and growth.
The IBM z/OS Parallel Sysplex is able to deliver on these promises, providing a cost-effective, flexible computing platform without peer. Through this new technology, the z/OS Parallel Sysplex provides you with a unique set of advantages:
- Ability to incorporate multiple hardware technology families into a single-image computing facility
- Wide range of price points, performance, and capacity
- No single points of failure
- Continuous availability for both planned and unplanned outages
- High-performance, scalable, read/write access to shared data across all systems in the sysplex
- Single-system image for systems and operations management
- Compatibility of existing application code
- Transparency to users and application developers
- Automatic, dynamic workload balancing across systems
- Incremental, granular growth with near linear scalability
With Parallel Sysplex technology advances and business prospers.
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