The New Power Equation for the New Enterprise Data Center

Cloud Computing with System Z. New cloud offerings for System Z

The mainframe delivers stability, availability and integrity to cloud computing.

The mainframe delivers stability, availability and integrity to cloud computing.

An emerging compute model—cloud computing—has evolved to address the explosive growth of Internet-connected devices, and to complement the increasing presence of technology in today's world.

Cloud computing focuses on the user, and offers highly efficient acquisition and delivery of IT and information services. Cloud computing is massively scalable, offers a superior user experience, and is characterized by new, Internet-driven economics.

A cloud is still a data center

While the promise of cloud computing is significant, the reality of cloud computing is not without obstacles. Providers of cloud services, whether private (intra-enterprise) or public strive to:

Enable economies of scale supporting large volumes of users at increasingly lower costs
Create an affordable and available supply of virtualized assets
Maintain a “green footprint” in the face of energy regulations and constraints
Meet service level agreements (SLAs) in spite of increased automation
Secure the cloud, protecting user privacy and integrity within shared system services

The mainframe is a cloud computing differentiator

The mainframe’s leading virtualization capability makes it an obvious choice for cloud computing workloads. With the ability to rapidly provision 1000s of virtual Linux servers and share resources across the system, the mainframe supports the capacity of an entire data center in a single system. Learn more

The mainframe is an ideal platform for achieving operational efficiency in the cloud computing data center. With System z’s unique virtualization capability and a “share all” design principle for system components, the components in the data center can be reduced by 90% for massive simplification. Total operating costs can be significantly reduced while achieving greater volume. Learn more

The mainframe is a proven foundation for secure multi-tenant business workloads from the application layer to the data source and all points between. It is a trusted repository for highly secure information and an open platform supporting anything from Web2.0 agile development environments with REST-ful interfaces to enterprise class middleware. Learn more

The mainframe is designed for business resiliency and support for workloads that require more than average operations. Lack of SLA support is frequently the turning point in cloud computing discussions that drive consumers to consider private clouds, in order to control and customize the delivery of cloud services. System z is built to delivery qualities of services not easily achieved with other platforms. Learn more