Why data serving on a mainframe

For over four decades the IBM mainframe has been a leader in data and transaction serving. To help you meet today's challenging business requirements, the System z9 platform can help you leverage these data serving capabilities to drive down risk and reduce business costs.

With the System z9 platform you can use the IBM leadership qualities to help address new business opportunities. When utilizing System z9 with DB2 and many of today's innovative programming models, you can derive new value from the data and applications on the mainframe.

With the introduction of the zIIP, z/OS may be able to free up capacity and help you optimize resource utilization of general purpose processors by directing eligible work to this new specialty engine. With the wealth of corporate data on the mainframe, the System z9 platform can leverage open standards and advanced virtualization capabilities in other IBM products to help position it as a data hub for the enterprise. Read this new white paper that details how System z can help protect your data and assist in the reduction of risk, cost and downtime.