IBM System z: Linux on System z - Enterprise Linux Server

The IBM Enterprise Linux Server can improve IT economics and drive greater performance. It can help you to reduce both cost of acquisition and cost of ownership.

• The better choice for your IT spending

  100 cores of traditional x86 or RISC servers is likely costing over $600k. You have a better choice:
  HALVING THE COST: An Enterprise Linux Server* with 4 cores with enough capacity to run comparable workloads costs roughly HALF of typical 3-year maintenance costs compared to 100 cores of traditional x86 or RISC servers.
  OR
  DOUBLING THE CAPACITY: An Enterprise Linux Server* with 6 cores has the capacity to run DOUBLE this amount of workload with maintenance costs over 3 years that won’t exceed your 3-year maintenance cost of 100 cores of traditional x86 or RISC servers.

  * Pricing is based on USD, prices may vary by country. Price of ELS includes zEnterprise 114 (z114) server, three years of z114 maintenance, z/VM virtualization software One-Time-Charge (OTC) and z/VM Service & Support (S&S)

• Cost Benefits

  The Enterprise Linux Server (ELS) can help lower your IT costs with its support for massive consolidation of older x86 and RISC servers, running up to thousands of virtual Linux servers concurrently.

  • Maintenance – the maintenance costs of a single ELS are replacing the maintenance costs of up 50 older x86 and RISC servers.
  • Software licensing – the ELS can support up to 50 older x86 and RISC servers on a single core, up to thousands on a single system*. Software licensing costs can be reduced due to the fact that Linux software is usually priced on a per-core basis.
  • Administration and management – a single physical ELS can mean less labor for system management and maintenance.
  • Business continuity – the ELS can scale up and out to meet spikes in server activity, helping to minimize costly transaction delays and potentially devastating system crashes.
  • Energy consumption – the ELS allows for fewer servers and networks which help on savings in physical space, air conditioning and electricity costs. In practical terms, this equates to replacing a room full of servers with a single, refrigerator-sized System z server.

  * Based on an IBM Study, US ELS pricing, pricing may vary by country.

• Single-server Simplicity

  The Enterprise Linux Server allows you to run all your modern applications on one single server, which can save software license and management costs, floor space and energy.

  The Enterprise Linux Server is designed to handle data and generate insight from data, help transform the economics of information technology, and deliver IT services without boundaries.

  The Enterprise Linux Server can do that, through IBM’s advanced virtualization technology, automation features and highly-scalable server capacities.

• Scalability to grow horizontally and vertically

  The Enterprise Linux Server virtualization software has the ability to virtualize and share all system resources - processors, communication, memory, storage, I/O and cryptographic features – thus providing advanced resource utilization and enabling flexible and dynamic resource allocation with a single point of control. The Single System Image feature, available with the latest software version, allows a cluster to be managed as one system.

  Together with the advanced data-in-memory techniques, nearly 100 percent utilization of the system resources nearly 100 percent of the time can be achieved. This is in stark contrast to solutions that offer limited single-system scalability.

• Unmatched Availability and Security

  The Enterprise Linux Server is based on the IBM System z server technology, which is considered by many industry experts to be the most available and secure server in the marketplace. The Enterprise Linux Server is designed to avoid or recover from failures for extremely high levels of business availability, even as a single server instance. In addition, the latest virtualization software version allows for nondisruptive Live Guest Relocation, avoiding planned software and server outages.

  Availability in an Enterprise Linux Server goes far beyond the server hardware. The availability design point focuses as well on the applications, which results in an integrated environment where hardware, firmware, virtualization software, Linux and middleware work in concert to provide application and data availability and security.

The IBM Enterprise Linux Server can do more for less, providing an ideal platform for IT optimization and cloud computing, an IT infrastructure for the new era we call Smarter Computing.

• Learn how you can centralize more servers, more workloads, more applications and more data.
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• Learn how organizations have used System z to build private cloud environments.
• Find out how zEnterprise can bring hybrid computing capabilities to your mid-sized business.
• Integrating Analytics into the Operational Fabric of Your Business
• Find out how to save $1 million using an IBM System z as a Linux Cloud Server.

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