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System z Delivers Bottom Line Savings Across All Major Industries
An independent study conducted by Dr. Howard Rubin of Rubin Worldwide shows that companies with a greater-than-average mainframe mix in their IT infrastructure deliver better business results than their distributed-centric peers.
These companies have realized significant savings in IT, for example:
- 44% lower IT cost per credit card transaction
- 31% lower IT cost per consumer loan
- 25% lower IT cost per mega watt hour produced
- 24% lower IT cost per hospital bed
- 20% lower IT cost per airline passenger
- 26% lower IT cost per new vehicle
- 25% lower IT cost per retail store
- 23% lower IT cost per barrel of oil
Savings over x86 across the Board
Our competitors want you to believe that deploying new workloads on the mainframe is more expensive than Intel x86 based servers. We invite you to read the Cognos 8 BI TCO and TCA study, showing how Analytic workloads deployed on System z are save money over x86 solutions.
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.

