Think beyond what you'd expect from IT. Focus on what you need. That's where you'll find the highest capacity System z yet -- the IBM System z10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC). The z10 EC provides breakthrough performance to help your business grow, deliver innovation, and meet new challenges. With the z10 EC release, IBM delivers:
- Significantly lower total cost of ownership
- Reduced energy consumption
- A growing ecosystem of skills, solutions, and services
Energy Efficiency
Rising prices and environmental concerns are creating pressure to curb energy consumption within the data center. The capacity and power of z10 EC lets you consolidate up to thousands of servers onto virtual servers. Your data center can either run thousands of low utilization servers or consolidate on z10 EC.
New Workloads on System z10 EC
However you grow your business, z10 EC provides the flexibility you need to handle the new workloads with the:
- Up to 70% more capacity and 3 times the available memory of the largest System z9 mainframe
- Capacity on demand to deliver the right capacity at the right time
- Specialty engines for attractive pricing alternatives
For more about System z workload capabilities and new workloads running on System z, see:
System z10 EC and the New Enterprise Data Center
Today's business opportunities, IT challenges, and potentially disruptive innovation are driving a transformation of the data center. The IBM vision for the future of the data center — the new enterprise data center – is designed to optimize service delivery and provide exceptional efficiency. The z10 EC can be the cornerstone of the new enterprise data center, helping to simplify infrastructure and provide powerful shared virtual resources while lowering cost of ownership.
Storage Information Infrastructure for System z10
You need an information infrastructure you can trust to house the rapidly growing, business critical information of today and the future. IBM System Storage has a portfolio of solutions to help address the storage needs of IBM System z10 EC clients.
System z Platform Benefits and Details
Consult the following for additional information about the business benefits of the System z platform and the technologies that deliver those benefits:
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