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Look around your datacenter. Do you see dozens or even hundreds of servers for your distributed applications? You may have servers for production, development, testing, backup and recovery. And you may have them for each application. The result? Server utilization is likely low and the cost to maintain all of these servers has continued to rise – increasing your total cost of ownership (TCO). Deployment, management and maintenance expenses on distributed networks are driving you to look at consolidating resources, while still retaining maximum system performance. With an IBM System z™ consolidation solution, you may be able reduce the cost of servers, storage, network equipment, power/cooling and infrastructure management, while providing higher overall resource utilization.
In recent years IT managers have seen a shift in IT costs: the largest portion of many companies’ IT budgets is now dedicated to simply maintaining and managing infrastructure. Hardware costs in typical data centers have dropped from approximately 50% to as low as 20% of the total cost, while the cost of managing that infrastructure has risen to about 45% of the total.
IBM built the System z mainframe with this in mind – ongoing cost savings without sacrificing processing power or system performance. A System z mainframe can provide fast provisioning speeds and dynamic allocation of system resources – allocating resources to applications when and if they need it, allowing merger of disparate systems and workload consolidation.
The value of the System z is in its overall performance and throughput and its ability to manage workloads in a sophisticated, cost-effective fashion. With industry leading virtualization, IBM System z has the capability to run multiple enterprise applications and dynamically allocate and share resources designed to meet even the most demanding business requirements.
System z technology can allow large scale consolidation of workloads from tens or even hundreds of other servers into a single server. This, in turn, provides the potential for creating significant reductions in hardware costs, as well as data center floor space, software licensing costs, overall power consumption and Labor costs.
Utilizing the mainframe can be a viable option for those wanting to reduce ongoing costs associated with growing workload and demands on resources. IBM has added specialty processors to the System z9 portfolio to help reduce the cost of adding new workloads such as Linux1 and Java2 and help you save money on software costs. The latest specialty engine, the zIIP Data–serving Specialty Engine, offers lower cost capacity for eligible DB2® workloads. When you add in that the System z frequently operates in the 90% utilization range, this platform may be the choice for you with the resilience, scalability, security and performance to help lower your overall IT costs. |
