Solutions on System z

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.