Virtualisation

Do you want to increase utilization of existing resources and improve ROI?
You can help reduce financial pressures through System z server consolidation which may help reduce budgets and control costs while improving asset utilization.

Is your competition beating you to the marketplace with the latest products and services?
With System z virtualization technology, you can deploy new capabilities allowing you to respond quickly to the latest market trends without constantly investing in new technology.

Are your storage requirements growing by leaps and bounds?
z/VM can help you reduce "islands of information" by sharing code across multiple virtual images helping to eliminate the costly overhead of maintaining multiple copies while increasing resource availability.

Are privacy, data integrity and security important to the health and longevity of your business?
System z hardware and software are legendary for providing the reliability, availability, security, serviceability and overall operational resiliency needed for mission critical workloads.

Is your company being affected by any of the new privacy and security regulations taking effect?
Common Criteria Security Certification (US) is designed to boost consumer confidence through evaluation and testing of vendor products to determine the level of conformance to International Common Criteria for Information Technology Security. IBM is currently in evaluation for Common Criteria certification of z/VM V5.1 with the RACF for z/VM optional feature. It is anticipated that z/VM will be certified to conform to the requirements of the Labeled Security Protection Profile (LSPP) and the Controlled Access Protection Profile (CAPP), both at the EAL3+ assurance level.