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What IT analysts are saying about the new IBM System z10 platform

z10 Business Class

z10 Enterprise Class

"The bottom line when it comes to evaluating mainframes as a potential way to better meet the CEO’s agenda is this: there is a strong, compelling case to adopt mainframe architecture to control costs, to improve security, to better manage data, to improve business flexibility, and to mitigate risk . And all of these themes are near-and-dear to a CEO’s heart. "

Joe Clabby, Clabby Analytics

"Our ability to expand capacity demonstrates our commitment to prepare for unprecedented growth and other risk factors affecting the global marketplace. IBM's technology and vision have been essential to our success in doing this."

William B. Aimetti, President and CEO,
Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC)

"Clients can also look to the IBM z10 BC as one of the industry's most flexible architectures for today's newest business and consumer applications, which are often created on different operating systems and various programming languages."

Cityweb Livorno (Italy)

"Transzap processes over $80 billion in transactions but we are still a small company with fewer than 100 employees." . "We invested in the mainframe for its ability to scale to meet our business needs at a moment's notice, and to provide our customers with a highly reliable environment with powerful virtualization capabilities."

Peter Flanagan, CEO of Transzap

"Our small to mid sized clients are increasingly asking for cost efficient IT solutions in light of the current economic climate. IBM's new, powerful z10 Business Class mainframe is a strong option for them, offering increased energy savings, decreased cooling costs and a smaller IT footprint -- a win-win all around."

Tom Amodio, President, Vicom Infinity, Inc

"The IBM mainframe has been part of the DHI family for more than 40 years and we can’t think of a more stable, faster technology platform anywhere in the world today. When we looked at the new z10 Business Class mainframe, the processor speed was key for us - we’re getting all the enterprise class features scaled to a more attractive price point for our specific business. Scalability and speed combined with a proven technology platform – that’s the z10 Business Class and its perfect for our business needs."

Dirk Baum, CTO, DHI Computing Service, Inc

"Much like enterprise customers, SMB’s are facing information overload and are striving to reduce the inefficiency and complexity of today’s data centers. The IBM z10 BC mainframe will help these customers manage information through IBM storage, virtualization and software solutions while providing specialty engines to simplify the human process to run the mainframe.”

Steve Madonia, Sales Manager - System z, Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc.

"By moving to a service oriented architecture on System z, we have gained the ability to think more about business problems and work through business solutions. At Aurora Health Care, we no longer talk about the technical challenges; we talk about what is possible."

Aurora Healthcare

"Our flagship mainframe SOA product, Ivory Service Architect, is designed for the System z, exploiting many of its key architectural strengths. GT Software is a leading mainframe SOA solution provider, with our products optimized for System z. In my opinion, the System z will continue to grow and emerge as the dominant server for mainframe Web services."

Steve Able, Vice President of R&D, GT Software

"We have 3,800 users and 7,000 customers using our SAP systems worldwide, and downtime costs us more than $100,000 an hour. Availability is king for Baldor, and the IBM System z gives us what we need. The migration of our SAP application servers to Linux on System z produced an immediate increase in performance, and has made it easier to manage and maintain our systems. It has also significantly trimmed the total cost of IT and reduced the administrative workload on our department.”

Mark Shackelford, Director of Information Systems, Baldor

"Offering Cúram for deployment on Linux for IBM System z underscores our commitment to providing customers with the widest possible range of implementation choices, The mainframe's mature and powerful industry leading virtualization technology has allowed IBM to continue to improve energy efficiency, add capacity dynamically and provide platform flexibility. Cúram applications deployed on Linux on System z will help our customers to further simplify their IT infrastructure and ultimately lower costs without sacrificing reliability - this is critical to the success of any software implementation.”

Ronan Rooney, chief technology officer, Cúram Software

"IBM Cognos 8 BI for Linux on System z is a powerful business intelligence solution on a mainframe platform which addresses all important parameters related to performance and scalability. This provides a single, real-time and consolidated view of business information to support operational processes and disperse information to the right teams across the company for more effective decision making.”

Hemant Kulkarni, Head, BI Technology CoE, Satyam

"A growing number of customers are integrating System z virtual Linux servers into their Oracle Grid strategy. IBM’s new System z B10 server extends the reach and the affordability of this solution. The z10 BC platform is an attractive option for customers moving to virtualized environments.”

Matt Puccini, Senior Director, Oracle

"IBM's System z is the most cost effective server architecture on the market for running secure, generalized batch, interactive, transactional, and new Java workloads. Overall, these are the arguments and value propositions that really matter to mid-market customers, and that is why the System z10BC should help IBM finally gain entry to the midmarket with mainframe technology."

Joe Clabby, Clabby Analytics

"Since deploying SAP applications on System z, our customers have realized significant business benefit. In particular, our customers who have the highest availability and security requirements have achieved their business objectives by leveraging the technology offered by System z.”

Bernhard Heininger, development manager, IBM System Z, SAP AG

"Designed as a powerful, entry-level version of the IBM System z10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC) mainframe announced earlier this year, the IBM z10 BC provides mid-sized clients with all the unique attributes of an IBM mainframe. For example, companies in emerging markets (such as South Africa and Singapore) or in hot industries (such as social networking or mobile commerce) can now afford IBM's flagship mainframe technology for under USD 100,000."

Enterpriser (India)

"As a service provider for large customers in Switzerland, it is imperative that our System z specialists are highly skilled and adopt the latest innovative technology. We have had tremendous success with the IBM System z9 Business Class mainframe and expect even more success with the z10 BC. As a long-time IBM mainframe customer ourselves, we have been driving the mainframe business for more than twenty years because we believe that the technology platform is rock solid with all the best of breed qualities.”

Gerard Luechinger, CEO, Osys AG

"Providing Linux and OpenSolaris for System z technology on the same System z processor allows customers to put their amassed skills from both the open systems and traditional mainframe world together for the optimum match in software and hardware technology.”

David Boyes, President/CTO, Sine Nomine Associates

"In a market where green computing, consolidation and virtualization are at the forefront of every CIO's agenda, the IBM System z mainframe represents a solid alternative to distributed platforms. Many customers look to run Linux on System z, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z on the new IBM z10 BC gives customers and business partners technology that delivers exceptional scalability, flexibility, and resiliency at a lower total entry point. Novell is pleased to collaborate with IBM, offering reduced pricing for SLES for System z10 BC, and to further invest in our clients success, Novell is also extending a free self-study kit with the purchase of the IBM z10 BC with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z. For customers looking to run Linux on z, this is a great opportunity and pricing structure for them."

Justin Steinman, Vice President of Solutions and Product Marketing, Novell.

"We believe that IBM System z10 BC will provide noteworthy Total Cost of Ownership savings, excellent energy efficiency and security, and RAS that IT professionals associate with IBM mainframes. This system is designed to help reduce people costs and ensure that aggressive service levels can consistently be met in our Linux environment as we continue to offer value to our customers through Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In addition to System z10 BC's performance design, its ability to provision based upon "business rules" will offer valuable benefits. z10 BC's many innovations seem especially well-matched to server consolidation in the enterprise datacenter."

Scott Crenshaw, Vice President, Platform Business Unit at Red Hat

"IBM's z10 mainframes -- both the enterprise class and business class versions - are cornerstone technologies that we always ensure we have the most up to date skills and consultants trained on. In fact, we've recently opened dedicated training facilities called 'Mainframe Academies' in France and Belgium to effectively train young graduates about the z10 technology. We look forward to working with our clients and IBM to integrate the latest z10 offerings as part of our clients demands to streamline infrastructures and lower energy costs."

Jean-Marc Gaultier, Vice President, Sogeti

"The University of Surrey's new large enterprise systems curriculum has generated a great deal of interest from our students. The innovations IBM have introduced to the mainframe platform are the key reason for this immense popularity. Our students are telling us two things: they are highly enthusiastic about mainframe-related career opportunities, and they believe the mainframe platform has a tremendous future as it continues to evolve."

Steve Schneider, Professor of Computing , University of Surrey, UK

"With IBM System z, instead of buying an oversized server and growing into it over the years, we only need to pay for what we use. As volumes increase, we can ask IBM to activate more processors within the mainframe to deal with the demand.”

Mikhail Senatorov, Deputy Chairman, Bank of Russia