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| Linux on IBM System z is helping to transform businesses of all sizes, all over the world. Learn how specific organizations have put Linux on System z (z9, zSeries, S/390) to work for them. |
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CALCULO boosts DB2 performance with Linux on System z
"Working with IBM, CALCULO is confident that it can achieve what would be a landmark in the insurance sector - the delivery of the first integral management system for insurance running under Linux on System z, which would be of interest for all insurance companies which currently rely on the mainframe platform." - Luis Mengotti, CIO, CALCULO
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Banca Popolare di Milano
Banca Popolare di Milano teamed with IBM to create a multichannel banking solution that enables seamless service access for customers and a single view of the customer for branch employees. IBM used a component business modeling approach to analyze, transform and integrate processes. |
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Atos Origin boosts mainframe efficiency and value with IBM
"The on demand flexibility offered by Linux on the System z platform will be very attractive to customers, enabling them to reduce costs and increase responsiveness." - Colin Clews, Location Services Service Unit Manager, Atos Origin |
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Macro 4 boosts speed-to-market with IBM System z9 Business Class
"Some Java testing was taking several hours to run - it now takes less than 15 minutes with the zAAP engine. We are seeing the same improvements in productivity with the zIIP engine, and we expect massive demand from customers for these technologies." - Jim Allum, Group Information Services Director, Macro 4 plc |
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The IBM On Demand Workplace gets Personal
IBM leveraged its existing intranet to build a dynamic, security-rich collaborative work environment that delivers customized content and tools to employees in realtime, creating an online portal where every employee can work more productively and effectively. |
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From reengineering to reinvention: the IBM journey to becoming an On Demand Business
"Early on, we focused on reducing cost and expense. We had to in order to survive. But today, our focus has shifted from reengineering to reinventing ourselves. We continue to deliver cost and expense improvements, but now we're tackling a more complex agenda, focusing on growth and innovation as powerful ways to manage and measure our progress." --Linda Sanford, IBM senior vice president, Enterprise On Demand Transformation and Information Technology
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Leverage IBM's internal security experience to help protect your business. ... IBM Security
In the fact of today's rapidly changing business conditions--and the growing threats to the security of your enterprise--your organization demands that security be embedded in everything you do. This case study gives you insight into the challenges faced by IBM to provide multi-layered security for its enterprise and the use of IBM Global Services to deliver and implement an integrated security solution.
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W & W Informatik boosts performance with high-speed storage from IBM
"Early adoption of innovative IBM technologies enables us to deliver better performance, helping to maintain our position as one of Germany's top financial IT providers." - Ulrich Enz, Head of Database, Middleware and Storage Systems, W & W Informatik
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IBM achieves over 99.8% availability of Lotus Notes environment with Tivoli software
"The latest releases of Tivoli software are more integrated and autonomic than ever before to help us better predict and avoid problems and lengthy outages." - Tom Greenwood, Project Manager, Project Development Team, IBM Internal Accounts
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Erie 1 BOCES (Board of Cooperative Education Services)
"Basing our whole infrastructure around IBM hardware and software has really paid off for Erie 1 BOCES," concludes Carol Troskosky, CIO, Erie 1 BOCES. "With WebSphere on the System z platform, Erie 1 BOCES has a highly automated, scalable and cost-effective solution which can support growth and promote development, providing a higher level of service to our customers."
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Dundee City Council
Following the successful consolidation of eleven mid-range servers to Linux virtual servers on a single IBM eServer zSeries 800 in 2003, the Council continued its drive for standardisation and cost reduction, upgrading to a zSeries 890 and consolidating dozens more servers. |
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gkd-el
The Linux operating system offers very low total cost of ownership for gkd-el's SAP software. Moreover, with the SAP applications running on Linux virtual servers, gkd-el has enormous flexibility and can respond rapidly to changing business requirements. |
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Hennepin County
Hennepin County streamlines inter-departmental communication through infrastructure consolidation and business integration. "The decision to run WebSphere Application Server on Linux on zSeries has given us a flexible, enterprise-quality environment that helps free developers to write applications instead of supporting server infrastructure." - Tammi Kolasa, Information Technology Supervisor, Hennepin County. |
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Housing Development Board
As part of the drive to cut costs and future saving, Housing & Development Board decided to migrate its business applications on the Internet and intranet to Linux as its strategic operating system. |
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Baldor creates delivery solutions with SAP and IBM
"The IBM and SAP solution is truly a key part of our competitive strategy" - Mark Shackelford, Director of Information Services, Baldor. "The fast internal connections enable sub-second response, and maintenance and licence costs are significantly lower than running multiple servers." |
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Hoplon Infotainment
"We wanted to create a game deployment platform that was much more scalable and flexible than existing models, and it was clear that IBM's approach would allow us to do that in a way we had not considered before...a way that is new to the industry." - Tarquinio Teles, Hoplon CEO |
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IRMM combines tape libraries into single virtual store. |
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