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IBM System z® delivers extreme business value by helping you reduce cost, manage risk and improve service. According to IDC’s high end server quarterly tracker, since 2000 IBM System z market share has nearly doubled¹ on a rolling four quarter basis - growing from 17% to 32%. Over that same timeframe, HP² has remained flat while Sun³ has lost market share.

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Reduce cost with System z to directly impact the bottom line.

Dramatic reductions in energy and facilities requirements
Far fewer software licenses
Reduced labor requirements
Maximized ROI
Reduced total capacity requirement
Faster deployment of new services with fewer resources

Read about new solution pricing! IBM System z Solution Edition Series

For the last 7 years IBM has provided specialty application engines on System z servers.

Integrated Facility for LINUX (or IFL) is dedicated to Linux workloads.
System z Application Assist processor (or zAAP) for Java environments.
System z Integrated Information processor (or zIIP) for certain data serving workloads.

These specialty engines can deliver key benefits:

Hardware price. The cost of specialty engines is far lower than that of general purpose processors. Linux on System z Solutions
Much of IBM’s software and some third party software is lower cost than on regular capacity.
The net of all this is that you can consolidate the workloads of 10s or 100s of distributed servers and significantly lower the cost of ownership

Manage risk with System z to deliver peace of mind

Industry’s pinnacle in security certification RACF®
Massive throughput of secure transactions Tivoli and zSecure
Application availability of 99.999%
Leading portfolio of disaster recovery solutions Parallel Sysplex®, GDPS®
Automated notification and response to potential future failures
Protection from scheduled and un-scheduled outages

Improve Service with System z

The ideal enterprise hub for dynamic delivery of resources and applications as services
A common view of data across enterprise applications and all access methods
Business-driven service delivery and management
Reduced application development time by reusing proven assets

Smart SOA on System z with WebSphere, proximity of data, and centralized Enterprise Service Bus.
Centralized secure data serving so users get the same view of data no matter how they access it, and even more importantly, the data is updated in real time.
Enterprise Modernization modifies legacy assets so they can be included as part

¹ source: according to IDC’s high end +$250K servers quarterly tracker results from 3Q’00 to 1Q’09. IDC WW Server Tracker Results 1Q’09.

² source: according to IDC’s high end +$250K servers quarterly tracker results from 3Q’00 to 4Q’08 - HP’s results 4Q’00, 20% market share; 4Q’08, 19% market share. IDC 2Q08 WW Server Tracker.

³ source: according to IDC’s high end +$250K servers quarterly tracker results from 3Q’00 to 4Q’08 – Sun’s results 3Q’00, 14% market share; 4Q’08, 7% market share. IDC 2Q08 WW Server Tracker.

⁴ Ratio of z10 BC processor cores to x86 and UNIX processor cores will vary depending on the age and speed of the processors and the workloads being run on them

⁵ Source: http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/27613.wss