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IBM provides world-class IBM mainframe technology to help today's enterprises respond quickly to evolving business conditions and with extreme flexibility. From automation to advanced virtualisation technologies and open industry standards, IBM mainframes help deliver competitive advantages for enterprises contributing and succeeding on a smarter planet
 

IBM zEnterprise 114


The zEnterprise 114 is IBM’s premier midrange ‘systems of systems’ platform for integrated, centrally managed workload deployment designed, priced and right sized as an on ramp for any growing business looking to exploit mainframe technologies for IT efficiencies and competitive business advantage.


IBM zEnterprise 196


The zEnterprise™ 196 is the world’s fastest and most scalable enterprise platform, designed to reduce the cost, complexity and inefficiency of today’s multiarchitecture data centers.


IBM System z10 Business Class (z10 BC)


The IBM® System z10® Business Class (z10® BC) delivers expanded capabilities in a cost reduced package that can run existing applications, new modern applications and help consolidate disparate applications and data. A competitively priced enterprise server delivering unparalleled qualities of service, peace of mind, and key leadership capabilities to help manage your IT requirements and reduce cost and risk in your business. This makes the z10 BC ideally suited as a key aspect of a Dynamic Infrastructure; addressing the challenges and opportunities of a smarter planet.


IBM z10 Enterprise Class


The IBM System z10™ Enterprise Class (z10™ EC) is a world-class enterprise server designed to meet your business needs. Built on the inherent strengths of the IBM System z® platform the z10 EC further extends System z leadership in key capabilities with the delivery of: expanded scalability for growth and large-scale consolidation; improved performance to data and to the network: expanded security and availability to help to reduce risk; and just in time capacity deployment helping to respond to changing business requirements. The z10 EC delivers technologies that businesses need today along with a foundation to drive future business growth.


IBM System z9 Business Class


The IBM System z9™ Business Class (z9 BC) provides an advanced combination of reliability, availability, security, scalability and virtualisation. The z9 BC is designed specifically as a midrange mainframe and delivers extensive growth options and excellent price/performance for those customers requiring a lower-capacity entry point and more granular growth options than offered with the System z9 Enterprise Class.


IBM System z9 Enterprise Class (z9 EC) (formerly z9-109)


For over 4 decades, the IBM mainframe has been a leader in data and transaction serving. The System z9™ EC provides a strong combination of past mainframe characteristics, plus new functions designed around scalabilityincluding flexible granularity solutions, virtualisation, availability, and security. And the z9 EC continues to extend and support the use of dedicated processors for specialised workloads, including the System z9 Application Assist Processor (zAAP), Integrated Facility for Linux® (IFL), Internal Coupling Facility (ICF) and System z9 Integrated Information Processor (zIIP).


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