In today's dynamic world, government organizations at all levels are faced with solving a myriad of challenges-security threats, economic slowdowns, budget shortfalls, healthcare costs, environmental and energy consumption, aging populations, and more. Together, these issues create a compelling case for government leaders to pursue a newfound sense of urgency. To overcome these challenges, governments must drive real transformation across the enterprise. Many are pursuing private sector approaches to solve complex issues. Governments that do this effectively are implementing innovative solutions to help transform how they share and protect information and sensitive data, serve and protect the public, manage operations, and collaborate with internal and external agencies, businesses and suppliers.
IBM can help your agency with new information technology solutions that will help your organization improve business operations and controls costs while improving the quality of life for your constituents. With proven solutions and innovative technologies, we can help you transform processes, integrate operations across the whole of government, implement changes within very tight financial constraints and enable government employees as a critical part of implementing new IT initiatives. Starting with the power of the security-rich System z platform.
The System z mainframe is designed to minimize downtime, enabling governments to provide constituents with access to critical information 24 x 7, worldwide. By directing processing capacity to a specific application when and where needed, mainframe technology helps government agencies respond to critical situations and ensure the safety of communities. The new System z delivers availability enhancements to help keep critical applications up and running.
The mainframe provides an integrated encryption infrastructure to protect sensitive and highly confidential data over the Internet, in databases, and on tape to help government agencies meet privacy goals and prevent fraud. The System z provides superior performance for encryption with an integrated cryptographic accelerator built into the hardware.
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) offers the promise of improved agility and enhanced flexibility, enabling agencies to introduce new services more rapidly in response to constituent requirements or compliance with government mandates. System z provides a secure, resilient and flexible platform to serve as the hub for an SOA infrastructure to increase efficiency, avoid duplication and share resources among agencies and other stakeholders.
System z virtualization can help government agencies reduce the total cost of ownership by consolidating smaller distributed servers on the mainframe. The System z delivers significantly lower cost of ownership and new levels of energy efficiency. With increased capacity, the System z virtualization capabilities can help to support hundreds or thousands of virtual servers in a single footprint.
Below you will find white papers, analyst studies, success stories and more to help you understand how System z enables government agencies to control costs, increase efficiency, reduce risk and deliver quality services to the public.
Learn about IBM solutions for the government industry
The resources described here can help you understand how to address government industry IT issues with IBM System z solutions.
The Challenge of Enterprise Security by Mike Kahn, The Clipper Group (PDF, 456KB)
The challenge of enterprise security is explored. Managing and protecting applications, data and users in today's enterprise environment are complex tasks. The challenges of serving and protecting, how they compound one another, and what you really need to do to be secure are reviewed.
Picking up the value of PKI by Jerald Murphy, Robert Frances Group (PDF, 279KB)
Leveraging z/OS for Improving Manageability, Reliability and Total Cost of Ownership of PKI and Digital Certificates. Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is a set of technologies and services that helps to address the issue of identity management. Digital certificates, provided by the PKI, contain the information necessary to prove the authenticity of a user's identity.
Multi-Level Security Solution Brief
IBM achieved Common Criteria Security certification on the z/OS operating system and its implementation of Multi-Level Security (MLS). Using MLS can help governments and government agencies reduce duplicate infrastructures previously needed to separate application specific or highly confidential data.
Multi-Level Security Strategies for the Federal Government
This report explores the impact secure information sharing requirements are having on agencies with defense, intelligence and homeland security missions. The mainframe with z/OS and DB2 MLS is designed to manage these new requirements and support collaborative operations among multiple agencies.
Read success stories
Read these success stories to see how IBM has helped customers in the government industry benefit from System z solutions.
IBM helps Honolulu fast-track a technology overhaul
The Department of Information Technology migrated over 100 applications including drivers licensing, voter registration and motor vehicle registration to the System z9 platform, which provided reliability and flexibility through virtualization and the ability to create Linux partitions. Business continuity was built into the solution with a second z9 installed at the disaster center as a test and development machine and positioned as the recovery machine should the need arise.
U.S. Agency reduces costs and improves efficiency with IBM SOA solution
Since many of the agency's legacy applications reside on the System z mainframe computer, it was an easy decision to build the SOA on the mainframe as the tightest integration between applications and data. System z provides a high-performance, high-reliability infrastructure for the agency's SOA applications with intense scalability and rich security.
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