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IT analysts agree, the IBM zIIP represents good value:
"… the introduction of the zIIP is a highly significant milestone that will further accelerate the continuing resurgence of the mainframe platform. It will make it easier, and considerably more cost effective, for customers to support many more of the qualifying DB2 dataserving workloads on the rock-solid "gold standard" enterprise System z9-z/OS-DB2 dataserving platform."
Ian Bramley, Managing Director, Software Strategies,
Information as a Service and the System z9 Mainframe, January 2006
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"IBM's new zIIP processor makes z9 more enticing; the mainframe keeps getting better by delivering more benefits while doing so at a lower cost per unit of incremental processing power. It's not just about adding more processors to a resource pool. It is, more importantly, about the ability to get more complicated, interrelated business processing done, when it needs to be done and at an incrementally lower cost. This is what zIIP does for DB2 workloads."
Mike Kahn, Managing Director, The Clipper Group, Inc., January 2006.
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To ensure appropriate levels of data security, reduce complexity and manage performance effectively, we need to recentralize the management of corporate data resources. For many businesses, the best way to do this is on the mainframe. In the past, this has been a relatively time consuming process because of technical inconsistencies between platforms. However, DB2 version 9 has made it far easier to consolidate distributed databases onto a centralized system, while establishing the mainframe as a very attractive data server for new workloads in an SOA environment. Moreover, the zIIP co-processor for the z9 promises to provide a very substantial improvement in the cost of managing z/OS-based DB2 data an improvement that makes distributed data management increasingly difficult to cost justify.
Mark Lillycrop, CEO, Arcati, Ltd, January 2006
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"Enterprise IT shops are constantly under pressure to find new ways to drive better efficiency for the business. Anything that can be done to increase the workload existing processing units will be embraced as a significant opportunity. IBM's zIIP architecture will allow DB2 processing to be done on idle mainframe processors, thus allowing new workloads to be driven on the mainframe. This will clearly maximize the efficiency of DB2 on the mainframe."
Jerald Murphy, Senior Vice President, Robert Frances Group, January 2006.
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The offloading engines are priced significantly lower than the usual z/OS engines. The computing power (MSUs) of these engines is excluded from the software charges. Users who skillfully use these engines can off-load the z/OS MIPS, stem the growth requirements and thus lower the TCO costs. In addition, like in the case of the IFL, users can extend the overall end-to-end application resilience and security also to the front end Linux applications.
Josh Krischer, CEO, Josh Krischer & Associates, January 2006
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eWeek - Jeffrey Burt, IBM Releases Specialty Processor for the Mainframe - January 26, 2006 |
| Jim Stallings, IBM's new general manager of System z unit, said the key to the mainframe's continued success is the improvements the Armonk, N.Y., company is making to it. The z9, which started shipping in September, was the result of more than a billion dollars worth of work, and offers greater management and virtualization capabilities than its predecessors. "The reason is innovation," Stallings said during the conference call. "What we've invested in this space translates into value for our customers." |
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