Why IBM System z™ for your business
IT is not about the hardware or the software, it's about the combination of the two. The hardware provides the high utilisation processing, availability and security, complimenting the software that drives open standards-based applications as well as legacy applications with the same ease. Connecting to everything in your enterprise, and bringing to the table the "green" effect, less power, less cooling and smaller footprint, to drive your business.
Consultant reports
IBM System z9 - The Next Generation
Last updated , Sep 2006
Independent Analysts give their views on the role IBM System z9 can play in their collaborative enterprise.
Software Strategies - Managing System z Mainframe SOA Environments
Last updated: 15 Mar 2007
The White Paper thus provides a comprehensive overview of the "state of the art" of SOA on the System z9 mainframe, for enterprise IT users planning their SOA developments.
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Mainframe Mythology Lives on - Setting the Large Systems Agenda
When it comes to large systems, in general, and mainframes, in particular, this much is clear - there is a lot of misinformation out there, driven, on one hand, by a lack of familiarity or knowledge and, on the other hand, by a collection of enduring myths.
Magazine articles
Standing Guard
Last updated , Feb 2007
Businesses with an IBM mainframe are well positioned to apply encryption to their data centre processes.
Animations & Videos
IBM TV - IBM System z overview
IBM TV - The Power and Impact of IBM System z
IBM TV - IBM System z Academic Initiative
The New System z9 platform overview
White papers
- IBM System z TCO: Man Bites Dog? (297KB)
- Mainframe server consolidation should be on your hit list
- Does System z Offer Better TCO? (362KB)
- Mainframe TCO getting more bang for the buck
- IBM: Mainframe Back to the Mainstream (255KB)
- Robert Frances Group: "The Mainframe: It's Baaack!" (179KB)
- Clipper 07/06: Mainframe Mythology Lives On (248KB)
- Why Data serving on the mainframe (87KB)
Last updated, January 2007
This paper reviews the impact that these changes have on data serving and the requirements that this generates as you consider the way you deploy data serving technologies and reviews how the IBM mainframe can help. - Managing 21st Century Business and Technology Innovation: Core Banking Transformation (1.03MB)
Last updated, May 2007
Banking CEOs are faced with the challenge of increasing earnings in the midst of extremely difficult business conditions. Nontraditional banking competitors have entered the market and are blurring industry boundaries, while banking products and services face commoditisation. - IBM Systems Agenda for On Demand Business (90KB)
Last updated, Nov 2006
IBM Systems Agenda is a fundamental focus on leveraging the breadth of IBM and its sustained history of technology innovation to deliver the next generation of systems based on fundamental design principles of virtualisation, openness, and collaborative innovation. - Get Adobe® Reader®
Customer testimonials
IBM TV - Hoplon Customer - Space video multi-user game
A joystick on one end. A mainframe on the other. Hoplon Infotainment relies on System z availability, reliability, scalability and security to power its Taikodome online gaming community.
First National Bank of Omaha takes a distributed environment back to the mainframe and gains reliability, scalability and a simplified infrastructure.
Customer name: First National Bank of Omaha
Industry: Banking and financial services
Insurance Services Office, Inc (ISO) (US)
Insurance Services Office, Inc (ISO) has made significant steps in building an SOA environment around its existing IT infrastructure. Their solution combined WebSphere Application Server for z/OS, zAAP, and the mainframe to achieve the reliability and scalability they required, and a more compelling TCO.
USA migrates with ease from Oracle to IBM DB2 V8 for z/OS
Essential reading
- Energy Efficiency (US)
- System z Virtualisation (US)
- Migrating to System z? Here's how we can help you.
- Hear it from us, not our competition. Find out why IBM Mainframe is here to stay.
- System z Software - only pay for what you use. (US)
- System z Hardware - add or remove capacity in real-time, paying only for what you use. (US)
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