The System z® platform combined with its highly advanced operating systems offer capabilities that allow superior optimization of IT environment. System z hardware(HW) that IT clients deploy can be configured and optimized to provide:
- Unmatched resource utilization
- High (near 100%) utilization of resources (CPU, IO, Memory, Network, etc..)
- The ability to scale up (vertically)
- Clients can order System z server configured with processing power required to support existing workloads
- Additional processing power can then be activated on demand and when needed and turned off when it is no longer required
- Customer-initiated procedures can be used to upgrade and add processing power
- Near-linear horizontal scaling
- Near-linear horizontal scaling that can be achieved, if required, by parallel sysplex clustering of a set of system z’s
- Data sharing can be implemented to allow 24/7 availability and superior scalability and flexibility
- Superior virtualization
- Superior virtualization of the System z server to allow clients to define and provision virtual servers
- Such servers are fully isolated and coexist to share the resources of the System z server
- They exhibit the characteristics of distributed servers without requiring dedicated dispersed hardware
- Such virtualization on System z is the most effective way to prevent server sprawl and best approach to control the cost and complexity of the IT infrastructure
- Simplified & cost effective IT infrastructure
- Simplified infrastructure that can be achieved by resource and data sharing among applications running on a single system z or a cluster of system z mainframes
- Cost effective IT environment that meets the budgeting of the client data centers
- Superb end-to-end management of multi-platform infrastructure
- The IBM zEnterprise System® revolutionizes the end-to-end management of multi-platform IT infrastructure
- Virtualized resources of both the zEnterprise 196® and selected IBM blade-type servers, contained in the zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension®, are grouped together and collectively managed through the zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager
- The Multi-platform workloads running under such a unified management benefit enormously from the superb QoS provided uniformly by System z
- Greatly simplified disaster recovery
- Greatly simplified and cost effective disaster recovery scenarios due to much fewer distributed servers involved
