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Lower your Risk on System z, when failure is not an option.

How does IBM® zEnterprise™ deliver availability, reliability and security that is among the highest in the industry?
- 99.999% availability1 to support your business continuity needs
- Near zero downtime.1 Better customer loyalty, lower churn.
- Simple disaster recovery capability.
- Perform maintenance and upgrades without service disruption.
- Highest security rating helps protect data and system from intrusion.2
- z/OS and z/VM Integrity Statement
- Protect Data
- Built in encryption accelerators in every server
- FIPS-140-20 Level 4 certified encryption co-processors for highly secure encryption
- Ensure Privacy
- Access to all resources is controlled by an integrated central security manager
- Protect Virtual Servers
- The only servers with EAL5 Common Criteria Certification for partitioning
- Respond to Compliance Regulations
- Up to 70% in security audit savings3
Special offers
- Forrester Consulting: Banking On Analytics Financial services firms count on a consolidated, secure platform for real-time analytics
- Solitaire Interglobal study: See comparisons of virtualization alternatives–What’s best for your business?
- Avoid costly downtime: Consider the three-year cost of downtime for eight large SAP enterprise users running on System z versus two other platforms.
- IDC white paper: Learn how you can centralize more servers, workloads, applications and data on IBM System z.
- Read a Forrester Consulting commissioned study on the total economic impact of IBM System z.
1 Source: ITIC: ITIC 2009 Global Server Hardware & Server OS Reliability Survey; July 2009; http://itic-corp.com/blog/2009/07/itic-2009-global-server-hardware-server-os-reliability-survey-results/ (link resides outside of ibm.com); Results are measured in minutes per year.
2 IBM internal analysis
3 3 July 2010 IBM Study with external customers. Results may vary depending on existing audit capabilities. Results may vary by customer.

