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The demands of customers, partners, employees—and the demands of a fast moving market—are stretching the limits of today’s data centers. Add to this the management and integration challenges data centers face as they invest in the next generation of smart applications and it is clear something new is needed. Smarter computing systems—systems that raise the bar on efficiency, performance and cost savings while lowering management complexity.

The IBM® zEnterprise™ System (zEnterprise) offers a revolutionary system design that addresses the complexity and inefficiency in today’s multi-architecture data centers. The zEnterprise extends the strengths and capabilities of the mainframe—such as security, fault tolerance, efficiency, virtualization and dynamic resource allocation—to other systems and workloads running on AIX® on POWER7, and Microsoft Windows or Linux® on System x®—fundamentally changing the way data centers can be managed.

The zEnterprise is a workload-optimized, multi-architecture compute system capable of hosting many workloads integrated together, and efficiently managed as one single entity. It is designed to deploy and intelligently manage workloads across both mainframe and distributed technologies with the same tools, techniques and a single management interface.

The zEnterprise System includes a central processing complex (CPC)—either the zEnterprise 196 (z196) or the zEnterprise 114 (z114), the IBM zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension (zBX) with its integrated optimizers and/or select IBM blades, and the zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager.

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zEnterprise System Announcement Overview

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zEnterprise System Technology Benefits

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