Leadership
Migrating to an IBM mainframe has never been easier. And that decision has never made more economic sense. System z leadership in virtualisation, storage connectivity, Linux, mixed workloads, and SOA presents a compelling case.
The new System z9 models, priced to satisfy a wide range of customer needs, mean mainframe Quality of Service is within reach of nearly all organisations. Highly granular upgrade options enable System z platforms to support optimum levels of system flexibility and control. Specialty processors (IFL's, zIIPs, zAAPs) that help reduce IBM software usage costs and accelerate workload execution make the migration case even stronger. So do security certifications like EAL 5, and the intrinsic security of hipersockets and other unique features.
Migrations that meet customer needs can benefit from decades of world wide experience. The System z staff can help move workloads to our platform to enable compelling levels of value, help reduce TCO, and enhance workload performance. With System z's emphasis on open and industry standards (Linux, Java etc), the applications and processes that customers need for business advantage can efficiently execute.
Highlights
System z, the flagship for IBM Systems innovation and the hub of the infrastructure, provides an advanced combination of security and resiliency features to enterprises that require high levels of application availability and information processing, and the capability to reallocate resources on the fly to match changing business priorities.
- Collaboration hub for Enterprise
- enterprise security management
- enterprise business resilience management
- enterprise workload management
- enterprise hub for data & SOA
- Built using open and industry standard technologies
- Provides capabilities to establish an enterprise-wide Service Oriented Architecture
- Built on a heritage of corporate data and transaction serving
- Built on nearly four decades of IBM virtualisation heritage and technology enhancement
Competitive comparison
| Feature | Potential Benefit | IBM | HP |
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| Binary Compatibility for Application Code | Smooth transition from one generation of technology to the next. No recompile of application code required by the customer. | Yes | Limited |
| Goal Mode workload scheduling provides autonomic systems management capabilities | Helps minimise need for operator intervention to allocate resources, lowering resources, helping to lower costs, and reduce the chance for human error. Helps maximise system utilisation, typically >70% |
Yes | No – rules based scheduling |
| Dual Instruction and Execution Unit on PU | Fast check for soft errors allows recovery on the fly. | Yes | No |
* Note: HP ITANIUM High End >$250K Server comparison to System z
Migration pathways to IBM System z
Take a look at your current system and see how the System z platform can address your business needs.
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IBM System z Integrated Facility for Linux with the sophisticated system virtualisation of z/VM |
Featured case study
Overview
First National Bank of Omaha takes a distributed environment back to the mainframe and gains reliability, scalability and a simplified infrastructure. First National Bank is a 9 billion dollar financial institution within a 16 billion dollar holding company. Their primary business is financial services from credit card issuing to merchant acquiring to your traditional banking products and we also do investment products in insurance such as, brokerage, annuities, and equities.
FNBO decided to attack the costs of managing multiple platforms. With close to 600 different hardware computing platforms, FNBO was managing multiple operating systems running on multiple different vendor platforms. In addition, those platforms would not scale easily without buying additional hardware.
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