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"IBM continues to see its mainframe product line as something special. So do the enterprise customers that have continued to embrace it as the backbone of their enterprise, and have significantly expanded its use largely via new workloads on the System z9's IFL (Linux), zAAP (Java), and now zIPP (database) specialty engines. The largest mainframe customers will be pleased with the expansion of the capacities and capabilities of the newly-named z9 Enterprise Class models. Furthermore, with its newly-announced z9 Business Class mainframe models, IBM has opened the door for many additional enterprises to join the family of mainframe users, for whom the lower-priced specialty engines will provide the economic justification for buying a mainframe." |
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| Mike Kahn, Managing Director, The Clipper Group
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"IBM's mainframe announcements are significant, and offer a great combination of increased flexibility, capacity, and functionality, coupled with decreased cost, complexity, and labor intensity. Robert Frances Group customers have indeed been "rethinking the role of the mainframe," and will be excited about the new capabilities tied to granularity, data serving, virtualization, and security." |
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| Bruce Allen, COO and Research Fellow, Robert Frances Group
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"By creating a lower entry point for mainframe computing – and by significantly lowering prices – IBM's System z can now extend its market reach from lower midrange through the very highest end systems. Add in high utilization rates, low cost of management, broad scalability, high availability, rich security – and an expanding application ecosystem – and IBM's new System z9 Business Class offering should help IBM extend its reach into new markets running new workloads." |
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| Joe Clabby, President, Clabby Analytics
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"With this mainframe announcement, IBM brings dramatically new functionality to the SMB market. We believe that there exist fundamental and significant advantages to the mainframe to address the unique problems of on demand computing. These new System z9 systems provide new flexibility for those seriously seeking to implement a computing infrastructure able to dynamically adapt to the needs of today's highly competitive business environment. Congratulations to the System z9 team at IBM." |
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| Richard L. Ptak, Partner and Founder, Ptak, Noel & Associates
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"IBM continues to see its mainframe product line as something special. So do the enterprise customers that have continued to embrace it as the backbone of their enterprise, and have significantly expanded its use largely via new workloads on the System z9's IFL (Linux), zAAP (Java), and now zIPP (database) specialty engines," said Mike Kahn, Managing Director of The Clipper Group, Inc., technology acquisition consultants based in Wellesley, Mass. He added: "The largest mainframe customers will be pleased with the expansion of the capacities and capabilities of the newly-named z9 Enterprise Class models. Furthermore, with its newly-announced z9 Business Class mainframe models, IBM has opened the door for many additional enterprises to join the family of mainframe users, for whom the lower-priced specialty engines will provide the economic justification for buying a mainframe." |
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| Mike Kahn, Managing Director, The Clipper Group
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"For decades, IBM's mainframe solutions have defined and delivered the tangible benefits of enterprise-class computing. With its new highly flexible System z9 Business Class solutions, IBM is making those same benefits available and affordable to companies of every size." |
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| Charles King, Principal Analyst, Pund-IT, Inc.
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"With energy costs rising, and power density of new electronics increasing, power-efficient devices are increasing in importance, especially with large data centers", according to Jerald Murphy, SVP and Director of Research Operations for Robert Frances Group. "Every CIO operating a large data center has told me that the mainframe is now the coolest, most efficient device in their data center." |
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| Jerald Murphy, SVP and Director of Research Operations, Robert Frances Group
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"The System z9 series announcement demonstrates serious improvements in price/performance for enterprises where high power secure mainframe computing forms the backbone of the business infrastructure. Where we believe the System z9 will make a difference is in those businesses where a resilient platform for either mid-range or high-end mainstream business applications is called for, using its ability to scale to meet peak demands, and so assure high business continuity under mixed work loads." |
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| Simon Forge, Partner, Ptak, Noel & Associates
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"IBM's mainframe announcements are significant, and offer a great combination of increased flexibility, capacity, and functionality, coupled with decreased cost, complexity, and labor intensity. Robert Frances Group customers have indeed been "rethinking the role of the mainframe," and will be excited about the new capabilities tied to granularity, data serving, virtualization, and security." |
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| Bruce Allen, Senior Vice President & Service Director, Robert Frances Group
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"Everyone recognises the valuable business capabilities delivered by IBM Mainframe systems. The introduction of the new System z9 Business Class and System z9 Enterprise Class offerings will open the door to mainframe usage for a greatly expanded potential market. The enhanced granularity of capacity coupled with a much lower entry point and price will make it possible and affordable for mid-scale organisations to deploy Mainframe based solutions for the first time. Mainframe systems are now ready to enter service with an entirely new customer base. Alongside scaling the System z9 for these new markets, IBM is also providing a wide range of flexible financial offerings to ensure that the System z9 fits both the workloads and the budgets of the mid-tier and above." |
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| Tony Lock, Chief Analyst, Bloor Research
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"With the powerful, comprehensive, and innovative IBM middleware software stack for SOA, data-serving and Information As a Service, these new System z9 BCs, and the refreshed EC line, are well-positioned and uniquely equipped, in both software and hardware, to serve as the prime reference platforms for the major adoption of SOA now well underway worldwide, and for the wave of Information As a Service (IAAS) now starting its rise. This new System z9 hardware, and OS support, will be available early, from May-June 2006 (depending on the product), including the new zIPP engine that strongly supports mainframe DB2 data serving, which has been pulled forward." |
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| Ian Bramley, Managing Director, Software Strategies
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"With the z9 BC, there is now very little to deter smaller businesses from taking advantage of the mainframe's legendary resilience and manageability." |
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| Mark Lillycrop / Arcati Ltd, IT Research & Publishing
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"By creating a lower entry point for mainframe computing—and by significantly lowering prices—IBM's System z can now extend its market reach from lower midrange through the very highest end systems. Add in high utilization rates, low cost of management, broad scalability, high availability, rich security—and an expanding application ecosystem—and IBM's new System z9 Business Class offering should help IBM extend its reach into new markets running new workloads." |
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| Joe Clabby, President, Clabby Analytics
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"With their April 26 2006 mainframe announcement, IBM are introducing a powerful, new, two-model line of entry to mid-range mainframes, the System z9 Business Class (BC). Sharing all the advanced technologies introduced last year on the high-end System z9s and more, the Business Class spans from 26 MIPS to 1785 MIPS capacity, now supports up to 7 customer System z9 specialty engines for more workloads, and comes in a small, lower-cost, single-frame packaging format. We rate the BC systems as offering excellent value for medium businesses and smaller mainframe workloads." |
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| Ian Bramley, Managing Director, Software Strategies
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"Replacing the z890, the two BC models offer a 2.6-times wider capacity range via 73 setting options, a radically lower $US 100K entry price point, considerably increased speciality processor engine capacity/flexibility (including the new zIIP), much increased I/O and memory capacity, and strong across-the-board price/performance gains we estimate reduce overall TCO by at least 20%. These powerful, value-enhanced, new smaller mainframes deliver the same extreme reliability, security, manageability, and workload efficiency, on all the same supported operating systems, as their larger System z9 brethren, at attractive price points for all smaller, modern and traditional, mainframe workloads. We particularly welcome the lower new BC specialty engine price of $US 95K (was $US 125K), for example. These strong advances will, we consider, further extend the smaller mainframe customer base growth seen with the z800 and z890, into more medium enterprises, and into more specialised roles in larger shops" |
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| Ian Bramley, Managing Director, Software Strategies
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