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Model your datacenter in an Enterprise Linux cloud

Model your datacenter in an Enterprise Linux cloud. Visualize the economic advantage.

System z Delivers Bottom Line Savings Across All Major Industries

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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:

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.

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Dr. Howard Rubin - The Economic Impact of Mainframe Computing for mid-sized companies - Trailer

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Sparda-Datenverarbeitung eG finds a winning combination: Linux and a mainframe

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Consolidation Stories: Thought Leaders discuss Linux on System z

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Linux Consolidation: Doing more with less

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Migrating to Linux

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