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New to System z?
While today’s data centres are actually holding many companies back, IBM’s System z does just the opposite.
Which isn’t new.
System z is the industry standard for several reasons. Among them:
- Extreme virtualisation. For large-scale consolidation, which can lower operating costs dramatically.
- Highest levels of availability. System z offers more availability for global operations than any other platform in the world.
- Unsurpassed scalability. For responding to the increasing and changing demands of today’s smarter business world.
- Unparalleled security. System z is the only platform available in the world with an EAL5 certification – the highest security certification achieved by a hardware platform.
- Massive costs savings: zEnterprise System can reduce technology acquisition and operating costs by up to 70%2.
Introducing the breakthrough IBM zEnterprise System (zEnterprise)
At a time when businesses are expecting growth, you need a system that embraces multi-platform environments. Unifies data centres. Brings together IBM System x, Power and System z platforms so they work together as one.
zEnterprise does all that – and is built on best-in-class systems and software technologies. It’s a system of systems that unifies for rapid, predictable service delivery.
In addition to creating an environment that supports end-to-end workloads and business processes, zEnterprise delivers:
- The industry’s fastest enterprise system. Delivering 50 billion instructions per second, at 5.2 GHz, zEnterprise is ideal for large scale data and transaction serving, and mission critical enterprise applications.
- Unified management for multi-platform environments. Unified Resource Manager, an integrated System z management facility, is responsible for zEnterprise platform management. Additionally, it extends System z qualities of service across the infrastructure.
- Extending the mainframe’s traditional resiliency and security to workloads running on IBM Power and System x. And workload-specific optimisers can be used to accelerate time to insight and reduce costs.
Getting the most out of zEnterprise
zEnterprise builds on the success of the previous generation of IBM System z with:
- 1.5x more capacity for scalability.
- Twice the memory.
- Increased efficiency. So more work can be completed in the same footprint.
- On-Demand Capacity, which lets zEnterprise add processing power as needed.
With IBM Global Technology Services, we can help you get the most out of zEnterprise, including:
- Building and running a smarter system with zEnterprise services.
- Creating a more cost-effective IT environment with system optimisation, migration and implementation services.
And IBM Global Financing offers financing strategies that can help:
- Enhance the financial business case.
- Accelerate implementation.
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 Based on IBM cost modeling of Linux on zEnterprise vs. alternative distributed servers. Given there are multiple factors in this analysis such as utilisation rates, application type and local pricing, etc.; savings may vary by user.
* Dr. Howard Rubin is the CEO and founder of Rubin Worldwide.
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