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Why IBM mainframe for business resiliency?
In today's on demand environment, downtime is not only unwelcome—it's costly. If your applications aren't consistently available, your business suffers. The damage can extend well beyond the financial realm into key areas of customer loyalty, market competitiveness and regulatory compliance. High on the list of critical business requirements today is the need to keep applications up and running in the event of planned or unplanned disruptions to your systems.

Our leadership in delivering world-class application availability and overall business resiliency has been over 40 years in the making. No other computing platform has integrated availability-enhancing features throughout its architecture as long as or as thoroughly as IBM mainframe. And no one is better able to bring availability technologies to your IT infrastructure.

IBM mainframe business resiliency solutions help you to:

Enable superior levels of application availability thanks to innovative hardware features and the recovery capabilities of the z/OS operating system.
Reduce downtime from hours to seconds.
Dynamically and automatically reallocate resources to meet the demands placed on your applications.
Provision new virtual servers in minutes to handle shifting workloads, with Linux running under the z/VM operating system.
Keep system failures invisible to employees, partners and customers, with dynamic disk-swapping capabilities that keep applications and data available.

Customer success stories

Learn how companies all over the world, across a wide range of industries, are realizing the value of System z business resiliency solutions:

	Eberspächer achieves a new high in business resilience with IBM and SAP "The IBM System z and DB2 infrastructure has given us a resilient foundation on which to build a globally integrated business, managed using SAP software," states Wolfgang Vögele, Head of Data Centre, Eberspächer.

	IBM Business Partner Lakeview Technology works with IBM to boost its success "The IBM infrastructure of software and servers works seamlessly with Lakeview MIMIX to create a powerful combination," states Ed Vesely, vice president of marketing, Lakeview Technology.

	IBM System z and GDPS help AOK Bavaria create a healthy environment for growth "Today, if we had an outage, employees could continue their work without even knowing where their system is actually running from. The transition to backup systems is completely transparent to end users, which helps them maintain productivity," states Nicolas Vassas, z/OS Systems Programmer, AOK Bavaria.