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IBM continues to demonstrate the viability of its mainframe platform by delivering excellence in large-scale enterprise computing designed and optimized for On Demand Business. IBM mainframes provide an advanced combination of reliability, availability, security, scalability and virtualization, together with the ability to reallocate processing power matching changing business priorities on demand.
On Demand business can drive explosive transaction environments, require dynamic responsiveness, and in some cases, cause a proliferation of middle-tier application servers and gateways surrounding the mainframe to address a variety of application, database, web serving, and utility services (for example, e-mail, printing, etc). Meeting the needs of this on demand operating environment requires a server with mainframe credentials and on demand integration that provides:
- Optimized performance
- Real time responsiveness managed to business priorities
- Quality of service
- Scalable, non-disruptive capacity increase for unexpected workload
- Secure connections among endpoints
- Always available application access
- Dynamic flexibility to respond to changing business needs
Continual advances in hardware and TCP/IP networking capabilities reinforce the mainframe's integral role in your on demand operating environment. The System z9 features an enhanced I/O subsystem and high performance adapter features balanced with its scalable number of processors, main memory, availability and virtualization technologies, plus advanced networking and data access capabilities on supported environments. The System z9 features an expanding family of high performance networking features including OSA-Express2 and next generation I/O features including FICON Express4 adapters for connection to the SAN. System z also supports HiperSockets™ providing advanced virtual server-to-virtual server networking at memory speed bandwidth and close to zero latency.
System z can help provide the connections you need within the mainframe, between System z9, System z and other servers, and out to customers, users, and partners.
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