Simplifying your IT environment

In your data center, simpler is better. But with everything a business needs to stay competitive, IT infrastructures are becoming increasingly more complex. Your systems are stretched over multiple servers, your information flowing over multiple networks. Add in multiple applications and manual resource allocation and your IT environment can become overwhelming. The IBM System z™ mainframe can help you reduce that complexity and simplify your strategic business processes.

Whether it’s too many disparate servers or not enough resources to manage your infrastructure, one thing is clear – the more applications and hardware you add to your existing infrastructure, the more complex and costly it becomes. The IBM System z utilizes end-to-end management capabilities to help deliver a highly-scalable, security-rich server environment. With a System z mainframe, you may be able to integrate many of your current system requirements, streamline your systems, and simplify your IT infrastructure.

The IBM System z supports a range of advanced operating systems, operating in a single system with broad support for industry standard networking and communication protocols and programming interfaces. All this can help you to facilitate sharing, leverage existing assets, enable modular, flexible integration and reduce costs so you can align your IT infrastructure directly with your business processes.

There are many factors involved in consolidating your infrastructure. With advanced virtualization capabilities, System z mainframes can help to address the issues of labor costs, server sprawl, network sprawl and the resources needed to support your data center.

System z also has the ability to interoperate with other elements of your infrastructure, through open and industry standard environments such as LINUX¹, JAVA², XML and IBM WebSphere®. With new pricing models, you may be able to reduce the costs of deploying and growing new workloads on the mainframe. Add in legendary IBM strengths of resiliency, security and scalability, and the System z mainframe can help drive the efficiency and large-scale workload consolidation you need.

System consolidation and IT simplification are becoming a necessity. Inefficient ”business silos“ are becoming a thing of the past. Infrastructures built around System z hardware and software can help you become more flexible in today’s changing business climate, with a strong foundation built on System z technology.

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