IBM zEnterprise System and IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager deliver the gold standard of enterprise computing and extends mainframe-like governance and qualities of service to special purpose workload optimizers and general purpose IBM POWER7 and System x Application Server Blades
The document summarizes the IBM zEnterprise EC12 (zEC12) mainframe system. It has up to 50% more capacity than previous models and features new 5.5GHz processors. It can manage workloads across multiple platforms through its hybrid computing design. The zEC12 supports large-scale consolidation and growth through unprecedented performance and scale. It utilizes specialty engines like zIIPs and zAAPs to optimize workloads and lower costs. The zEC12 is designed to handle data-intensive workloads and analytics through solutions like DB2 and the IBM Smart Analytics System.
IBM unveils the new zEnterprise system, the most powerful and energy efficient mainframe ever. It extends mainframe qualities like governance and manageability to select Power and System x servers. This allows workloads on mainframe, Power, and System x servers to share resources and be managed as a single system. It can drive lower costs and reduce complexity for customers managing diverse technologies in their data centers.
The IBM zEnterprise platform delivers an integrated approach that reaches across platforms to provide intelligent support on a single system for business applications such as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and industry-specific core applications
Recent economic conditions have changed the way that business operates. To adapt demands innovative ideas and solutions. At the same time, the world is becoming smarter—more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Businesses have to manage increasingly large data pools and a customer base with higher expectations, without spending more on IT...
IBM SmartCloud™ Entry is a robust cloud software offering that takes your virtualized environment from cloud-ready to cloud. Users can request and provision an environment quickly through an easy-to-use web-based interface. IT managers can monitor and manage this environment for improved efficiency and utilization of the data center.
This short paper will address an argument that exists in the WW IT marketplace today and has existed in the marketplace over the last several years. It is an argument between mainframe computing with its z/OS® operating system and distributed server implementations of UNIX® and x86 vendors. The competitors being HP, with its HP-UX operating system, Oracle (Sun) with its Solaris operating system and x86 vendors such as Dell with primarily the Microsoft® Windows® operating system. These vendors also support the Linux® operating system, albeit in a distributed fashion, and with some virtualization techniques such as VMware and Hyper-V.
Acxiom is a marketing services company that helps clients engage customers. It stores data on 500 million people. To scale its services, Acxiom created a cloud computing environment using IBM System x3850 X5 servers. This delivers 5 times the performance of its previous servers at 15 times less cost, allowing Acxiom to dramatically scale without expanding its data center footprint. The IBM solution integrated seamlessly and improved security, automation, and virtualization ratios while reducing power needs by over 1 megawatt.
IBM System x servers help organizations reduce costs through higher energy efficiency and increased utilization. They also help manage risk through reliable systems that can adapt to changing business needs. The new generation of System x servers delivers high performance for demanding applications through innovations like support for large memory capacities and many CPU sockets. They also offer improved manageability and service through dynamic management tools.
The document summarizes the IBM zEnterprise EC12 (zEC12) mainframe system. It has up to 50% more capacity than previous models and features new 5.5GHz processors. It can manage workloads across multiple platforms through its hybrid computing design. The zEC12 supports large-scale consolidation and growth through unprecedented performance and scale. It utilizes specialty engines like zIIPs and zAAPs to optimize workloads and lower costs. The zEC12 is designed to handle data-intensive workloads and analytics through solutions like DB2 and the IBM Smart Analytics System.
IBM unveils the new zEnterprise system, the most powerful and energy efficient mainframe ever. It extends mainframe qualities like governance and manageability to select Power and System x servers. This allows workloads on mainframe, Power, and System x servers to share resources and be managed as a single system. It can drive lower costs and reduce complexity for customers managing diverse technologies in their data centers.
The IBM zEnterprise platform delivers an integrated approach that reaches across platforms to provide intelligent support on a single system for business applications such as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and industry-specific core applications
Recent economic conditions have changed the way that business operates. To adapt demands innovative ideas and solutions. At the same time, the world is becoming smarter—more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Businesses have to manage increasingly large data pools and a customer base with higher expectations, without spending more on IT...
IBM SmartCloud™ Entry is a robust cloud software offering that takes your virtualized environment from cloud-ready to cloud. Users can request and provision an environment quickly through an easy-to-use web-based interface. IT managers can monitor and manage this environment for improved efficiency and utilization of the data center.
This short paper will address an argument that exists in the WW IT marketplace today and has existed in the marketplace over the last several years. It is an argument between mainframe computing with its z/OS® operating system and distributed server implementations of UNIX® and x86 vendors. The competitors being HP, with its HP-UX operating system, Oracle (Sun) with its Solaris operating system and x86 vendors such as Dell with primarily the Microsoft® Windows® operating system. These vendors also support the Linux® operating system, albeit in a distributed fashion, and with some virtualization techniques such as VMware and Hyper-V.
Acxiom is a marketing services company that helps clients engage customers. It stores data on 500 million people. To scale its services, Acxiom created a cloud computing environment using IBM System x3850 X5 servers. This delivers 5 times the performance of its previous servers at 15 times less cost, allowing Acxiom to dramatically scale without expanding its data center footprint. The IBM solution integrated seamlessly and improved security, automation, and virtualization ratios while reducing power needs by over 1 megawatt.
IBM System x servers help organizations reduce costs through higher energy efficiency and increased utilization. They also help manage risk through reliable systems that can adapt to changing business needs. The new generation of System x servers delivers high performance for demanding applications through innovations like support for large memory capacities and many CPU sockets. They also offer improved manageability and service through dynamic management tools.
IBM System x servers help organizations reduce costs through higher energy efficiency and increased utilization. They also help manage risk through features that improve reliability and availability. A new generation of System x servers delivers high performance for demanding applications through scalability, virtualization, and management capabilities. These servers are available across different form factors to meet a range of business needs.
IBM System x servers help organizations reduce costs through higher energy efficiency and increased utilization. They also help manage risk through features that improve reliability like light path diagnostics. The portfolio includes rack, tower, and blade servers for different environments. New additions to the x86 server lineup include the x3620 M3 for value and storage, the extremely dense x3630 M3, and the 4-socket x3755 M3. These servers are designed to improve performance while reducing power costs.
The document discusses how smarter computing through the integration of big data, optimized systems, and cloud computing can unlock new insights and value. It summarizes that 1) big data streams and traditional data integrated in optimized systems can deliver new insights, 2) cloud computing will play a fundamental role by masking complexity and enabling rapid deployment, and 3) IBM's integrated and workload-optimized systems can accelerate the path to smarter computing by tightly integrating appliances and flexible systems.
This document discusses IBM Power Systems cloud solutions for enabling customers to move mission-critical workloads to the cloud. It highlights how Power Systems solutions can improve performance and scalability, provide enterprise quality of service for applications, and automate management and optimization of resources. The document also describes how Power Systems is optimized for cloud environments through features like virtualization, security, scalability, and reliability. It discusses IBM's cloud foundation and entry cloud solutions that are built on Power Systems to help customers transform their data centers and IT infrastructure.
This document discusses eight key challenges to effective infrastructure management: 1) detecting and handling incidents and problems, 2) handling changes with minimal impact on availability, 3) preventing security problems, 4) using emerging technologies effectively, 5) maintaining software and firmware, 6) having indicators of status and trends, 7) having the right tools, and 8) deploying infrastructure rapidly. It provides tactics to address each challenge, with the goals of improving efficiency, reducing costs, and increasing business value through better infrastructure management. Outsourcing and managed services are presented as strategic options.
Future of Power: IBM Trends & Directions - Erik RexIBM Danmark
This document provides an overview of IBM i trends and directions presented at a conference on September 4, 2013. It discusses new Power7+ servers with higher frequencies and more L3 cache providing better price/performance. It also outlines IBM i roadmap commitments, new technology refreshes, and strategies around virtualization, availability, security and simplification to focus on business needs. Customer input and priorities are reviewed to guide IBM i investment themes around solutions for today and the future.
Marie Wieck - New Workload System z and SDVMauricio Godoy
The document summarizes IBM's 2011 System zSummit which discussed new workloads and strategic thinking for System z. It outlined challenges businesses are facing around connectivity, data usage, and complexity. System z solutions like virtualization, risk management, business intelligence, and business process management can help businesses address these challenges by extracting value from existing assets. Case studies were presented on how System z helps two companies meet their business and IT requirements around quality of service, efficiency, capacity, and flexibility.
Your priorities are clear: meet the challenges of today’s dynamic world, contain costs, deal with IT skill shortages and take full advantage of new technologies. In short, manage your IT organization and infrastructure for business success. With its industry-leading flexibility, BladeCenter is the right choice for your dynamic business...
This white paper discusses Sun Microsystems' new virtualized network express module and blade server solution. It addresses ongoing customer needs to reduce datacenter costs related to power, cooling, management complexity and staffing. The solution aims to improve efficiency and lower costs by streamlining management, reducing cabling, improving energy efficiency, and providing a single-pane-of-glass management view.
The document summarizes the IBM z Systems z13 mainframe update. Key points include the status of IBM servers and trends in digital disruption driving increased mainframe requirements. The z13 launch is highlighted as enabling lower costs through improvements like simultaneous multithreading and large memory capabilities. Mainframes are described as the platform for the future, processing a growing number of mobile transactions worldwide and supporting a large portion of critical applications.
1) The document describes IBM's Enterprise virtual machine infrastructure on the IBM Cloud, which provides virtual server instances that customers can use to help reduce costs, increase business agility, and improve security.
2) It allows customers to quickly provision virtual servers on demand and only pay for resources when needed, helping reduce capital and operational expenses compared to owning physical infrastructure.
3) Customers can choose from various operating system and software images and have tools to automate server provisioning, helping speed application development and deployment cycles.
As a C-level executive, you are always on the lookout for ways to reduce IT costs while increasing systems capability in order to grow sales and/or improve service. Leveraging applications with automated business processes that enable user centric interconnected applications embracing interfaces that are inherently enabled for smart devices with efficient systems represents a proven way to improve the business.
This document provides an overview of the IBM System x3650 M3, a dual-socket 2U rack server. Key features include Intel Xeon 5600 series processors with up to 12 cores, support for up to 192GB RAM, up to 16 hot-swap hard drives or solid state drives for storage, 4 PCIe slots, and integrated Gigabit Ethernet. The server offers high availability through features like redundant power supplies and fans, hot-swap components, RAID, and IPMI 2.0 support. It also has tools for easy management and diagnostics locally or remotely. The x3650 M3 is suitable for applications requiring highly available and energy efficient rack servers.
New high-density storage server - IBM System x3650 M4 HDCliff Kinard
IBM System x3650 M4 HD
Flexibility, simplicity and scale for today's workloads.
The ultimate high density storage server, designed for data-intensive analytics and business critical workloads. Optimal blend of performance, uptime, and dense storage.
Watch our North America webcast replay here:
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The National Registration Department of
Malaysia (Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara
Malaysia, or JPN) is the government agency
responsible for registering important demographic
events. To expedite statistical queries
and requests for data extraction from governmental
entities, JPN custom-built an application
referred to as the Statistics and Data Extraction
Request Management System (SAL). Although
the application was designed to automatically
manage, calculate and distribute responses to
data requests, the underlying hardware platform
was woefully inadequate for the task and
frequently bogged down.
The zEnterprise system is a "system of systems" that integrates IBM's leading technologies to dramatically improve productivity in multi-architecture data centers and private clouds. It is the world's fastest and most scalable enterprise system with unrivalled reliability, security, and manageability. The zEnterprise is also the industry's most efficient platform for large scale data center simplification and consolidation.
This IDC white paper highlights how IBM eX5 systems with MAX5 memory technology play a significant role in increasing the value of memory dense servers.
The document discusses how Linux applications can be consolidated and migrated from physical x86 servers to virtual servers running on IBM System z mainframe servers. It describes how the IBM z/VM hypervisor allows a single System z server to run hundreds of Linux virtual machines. Using virtualization provides benefits like reduced costs, improved efficiency, and the ability to quickly deploy new applications. The document also outlines tools like IBM VMControl Image Manager and CSL-Wave that simplify managing the Linux virtual machines and hidden the complexity of the z/VM environment.
IBM’s distribution sector industry value proposition: IBM collaborates with distributors to help improve customers’ experiences, optimize operations and supply chains, and drive organizational efficiencies.
IBM Flex System offers a brand new platform for creating solutions to address emerging market applications, such as Cloud, Big Data, Analytics, and Smarter Planet. In this paper, we described how to create a custom private cloud configuration that uses Flex System. For more information on Pure Systems, visit http://ibm.co/18vDnp6.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
IBM System x servers help organizations reduce costs through higher energy efficiency and increased utilization. They also help manage risk through features that improve reliability and availability. A new generation of System x servers delivers high performance for demanding applications through scalability, virtualization, and management capabilities. These servers are available across different form factors to meet a range of business needs.
IBM System x servers help organizations reduce costs through higher energy efficiency and increased utilization. They also help manage risk through features that improve reliability like light path diagnostics. The portfolio includes rack, tower, and blade servers for different environments. New additions to the x86 server lineup include the x3620 M3 for value and storage, the extremely dense x3630 M3, and the 4-socket x3755 M3. These servers are designed to improve performance while reducing power costs.
The document discusses how smarter computing through the integration of big data, optimized systems, and cloud computing can unlock new insights and value. It summarizes that 1) big data streams and traditional data integrated in optimized systems can deliver new insights, 2) cloud computing will play a fundamental role by masking complexity and enabling rapid deployment, and 3) IBM's integrated and workload-optimized systems can accelerate the path to smarter computing by tightly integrating appliances and flexible systems.
This document discusses IBM Power Systems cloud solutions for enabling customers to move mission-critical workloads to the cloud. It highlights how Power Systems solutions can improve performance and scalability, provide enterprise quality of service for applications, and automate management and optimization of resources. The document also describes how Power Systems is optimized for cloud environments through features like virtualization, security, scalability, and reliability. It discusses IBM's cloud foundation and entry cloud solutions that are built on Power Systems to help customers transform their data centers and IT infrastructure.
This document discusses eight key challenges to effective infrastructure management: 1) detecting and handling incidents and problems, 2) handling changes with minimal impact on availability, 3) preventing security problems, 4) using emerging technologies effectively, 5) maintaining software and firmware, 6) having indicators of status and trends, 7) having the right tools, and 8) deploying infrastructure rapidly. It provides tactics to address each challenge, with the goals of improving efficiency, reducing costs, and increasing business value through better infrastructure management. Outsourcing and managed services are presented as strategic options.
Future of Power: IBM Trends & Directions - Erik RexIBM Danmark
This document provides an overview of IBM i trends and directions presented at a conference on September 4, 2013. It discusses new Power7+ servers with higher frequencies and more L3 cache providing better price/performance. It also outlines IBM i roadmap commitments, new technology refreshes, and strategies around virtualization, availability, security and simplification to focus on business needs. Customer input and priorities are reviewed to guide IBM i investment themes around solutions for today and the future.
Marie Wieck - New Workload System z and SDVMauricio Godoy
The document summarizes IBM's 2011 System zSummit which discussed new workloads and strategic thinking for System z. It outlined challenges businesses are facing around connectivity, data usage, and complexity. System z solutions like virtualization, risk management, business intelligence, and business process management can help businesses address these challenges by extracting value from existing assets. Case studies were presented on how System z helps two companies meet their business and IT requirements around quality of service, efficiency, capacity, and flexibility.
Your priorities are clear: meet the challenges of today’s dynamic world, contain costs, deal with IT skill shortages and take full advantage of new technologies. In short, manage your IT organization and infrastructure for business success. With its industry-leading flexibility, BladeCenter is the right choice for your dynamic business...
This white paper discusses Sun Microsystems' new virtualized network express module and blade server solution. It addresses ongoing customer needs to reduce datacenter costs related to power, cooling, management complexity and staffing. The solution aims to improve efficiency and lower costs by streamlining management, reducing cabling, improving energy efficiency, and providing a single-pane-of-glass management view.
The document summarizes the IBM z Systems z13 mainframe update. Key points include the status of IBM servers and trends in digital disruption driving increased mainframe requirements. The z13 launch is highlighted as enabling lower costs through improvements like simultaneous multithreading and large memory capabilities. Mainframes are described as the platform for the future, processing a growing number of mobile transactions worldwide and supporting a large portion of critical applications.
1) The document describes IBM's Enterprise virtual machine infrastructure on the IBM Cloud, which provides virtual server instances that customers can use to help reduce costs, increase business agility, and improve security.
2) It allows customers to quickly provision virtual servers on demand and only pay for resources when needed, helping reduce capital and operational expenses compared to owning physical infrastructure.
3) Customers can choose from various operating system and software images and have tools to automate server provisioning, helping speed application development and deployment cycles.
As a C-level executive, you are always on the lookout for ways to reduce IT costs while increasing systems capability in order to grow sales and/or improve service. Leveraging applications with automated business processes that enable user centric interconnected applications embracing interfaces that are inherently enabled for smart devices with efficient systems represents a proven way to improve the business.
This document provides an overview of the IBM System x3650 M3, a dual-socket 2U rack server. Key features include Intel Xeon 5600 series processors with up to 12 cores, support for up to 192GB RAM, up to 16 hot-swap hard drives or solid state drives for storage, 4 PCIe slots, and integrated Gigabit Ethernet. The server offers high availability through features like redundant power supplies and fans, hot-swap components, RAID, and IPMI 2.0 support. It also has tools for easy management and diagnostics locally or remotely. The x3650 M3 is suitable for applications requiring highly available and energy efficient rack servers.
New high-density storage server - IBM System x3650 M4 HDCliff Kinard
IBM System x3650 M4 HD
Flexibility, simplicity and scale for today's workloads.
The ultimate high density storage server, designed for data-intensive analytics and business critical workloads. Optimal blend of performance, uptime, and dense storage.
Watch our North America webcast replay here:
http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=670225&s=1&k=FC5CD17AB42385B40BCED29B8B61E2E8&partnerref=IBM09
The National Registration Department of
Malaysia (Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara
Malaysia, or JPN) is the government agency
responsible for registering important demographic
events. To expedite statistical queries
and requests for data extraction from governmental
entities, JPN custom-built an application
referred to as the Statistics and Data Extraction
Request Management System (SAL). Although
the application was designed to automatically
manage, calculate and distribute responses to
data requests, the underlying hardware platform
was woefully inadequate for the task and
frequently bogged down.
The zEnterprise system is a "system of systems" that integrates IBM's leading technologies to dramatically improve productivity in multi-architecture data centers and private clouds. It is the world's fastest and most scalable enterprise system with unrivalled reliability, security, and manageability. The zEnterprise is also the industry's most efficient platform for large scale data center simplification and consolidation.
This IDC white paper highlights how IBM eX5 systems with MAX5 memory technology play a significant role in increasing the value of memory dense servers.
The document discusses how Linux applications can be consolidated and migrated from physical x86 servers to virtual servers running on IBM System z mainframe servers. It describes how the IBM z/VM hypervisor allows a single System z server to run hundreds of Linux virtual machines. Using virtualization provides benefits like reduced costs, improved efficiency, and the ability to quickly deploy new applications. The document also outlines tools like IBM VMControl Image Manager and CSL-Wave that simplify managing the Linux virtual machines and hidden the complexity of the z/VM environment.
IBM’s distribution sector industry value proposition: IBM collaborates with distributors to help improve customers’ experiences, optimize operations and supply chains, and drive organizational efficiencies.
IBM Flex System offers a brand new platform for creating solutions to address emerging market applications, such as Cloud, Big Data, Analytics, and Smarter Planet. In this paper, we described how to create a custom private cloud configuration that uses Flex System. For more information on Pure Systems, visit http://ibm.co/18vDnp6.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
This document discusses optimizing IT infrastructure through consolidation and virtualization. It provides three key points:
1) An integrated system of multiple architectures can optimize workload deployment and reduce operational overhead through centralized management and administration. This can lower costs by up to 80% for areas like power, facilities, labor, and software licenses.
2) The zEnterprise platform lowers acquisition costs by up to 56% and reduces ownership costs by up to 55% by helping to simplify the data center and establish an efficient foundation.
3) Virtualization technologies like z/VM allow workloads to efficiently utilize system resources and improve productivity by dynamically allocating CPUs, memory, and other hardware as needed.
Unique hybrid design integrates Mainframe, POWER7®andIBM System x®technologies in a single unified, centrallymanaged system.●Designed and right-sized as an entry level mainframe serverand on-ramp for any growing business looking to exploitmainframe technologies, now starting under $75K USD2●Industry-leading virtualization, security, resiliency, and connec-tivity technologies cost-effectively packaged as a midrangeenterprise solution●Up to 18 percent performance improvement per core and upto 12 percent more capacity within the same energy footprintas the z10 BC●Consolidate an average of 30 distributed servers or more on asingle core, or an average of 300 in a single footprint, deliver-ing a virtual Linux server for under $1.45 day
Learn about IBM zEnterprise Strategy for the Private Cloud.The white paper defines the strategy for implementing the zEnterprise System as an integrated, heterogeneous, and virtualized infrastructure, ideal for supporting Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in cloud computing deployments.To know more about System z, visit http://ibm.co/PNo9Cb.
The document announces the new IBM zEnterprise EC12 hybrid computing system. Key points:
- It provides up to 50% more total system capacity and 101 configurable cores compared to prior models.
- Performance is improved through a new hexa-core 5.5GHz chip design and features like transactional execution.
- New capabilities include flash storage support, encryption, and pattern recognition analytics for system health.
- It supports various workloads and platforms through the zBX blade infrastructure and management tools.
IBM is promoting its new IBM zEnterprise system to help retailers address critical needs like improving the customer shopping experience, optimizing supply chains and merchandising, and driving operational efficiencies. The zEnterprise system allows retailers to reduce IT costs through large-scale consolidation, turn information into insights faster through improved performance, and integrate and centralize management across platforms.
Businesses demand IT solutions that are relevant, reliable and faster than ever. Infrastructure and business-specific workloads proliferate as companies grow and address new market needs. The result for data centers is increased server acquisition, expanded storage, new databases, increased floor space and more power consumption.
This document compares IBM PureSystems and Cisco UCS integrated systems. It summarizes that IBM PureSystems are pre-integrated with servers, storage, networking and software. Cisco UCS only manages Cisco components. The document finds that IBM PureSystems offer more integration, flexibility and out-of-the-box capabilities for private clouds compared to Cisco UCS.
IBM® Power® servers are built to help clients respond faster to business demands,
protect data from core to cloud and streamline insights and automation while
maximizing reliability in a sustainable way. Power servers can modernize
applications and infrastructure with a hybrid cloud experience to provide the agility
companies need.
The IBM z13 - January 14, 2015 - IBM Latin America Hardware Announcement LG15...Anderson Bassani
IBM announces the new IBM z13 system, which delivers up to 40% more total capacity than the prior zEC12 system. Key features of the z13 include support for up to 10TB of memory, new FICON Express16S channels for storage connectivity, simultaneous multithreading to improve Linux and zIIP workload performance, and vector processing to accelerate analytics workloads. The z13 also provides improved security, availability, and manageability. Existing zEnterprise EC12 and zEnterprise 196 systems can be upgraded to the new z13 configuration.
This document discusses virtualization solutions from IBM and VMware. It notes that these companies provide workload-optimized systems, consultative services, and heterogeneous management to help companies move to more fully virtualized environments and cloud computing. Specifically, it highlights IBM's eX5 systems which are designed for virtualization and deliver mainframe-inspired reliability, lower costs, and energy savings when used with VMware's vSphere platform. The collaboration between IBM and VMware provides innovative virtualization solutions delivering high performance, density, reliability, and availability.
Looking to take the Cloud journey for your organisation? This comprehensive presentation covers everything that you need to know about building your Cloud. The presentation was part of IBM Cloud Innovation Forum India and was presented by Subram Natarajan, Technical Sales Executive, Systems & Technology Group and Dr. Rajendra Gupta, Executive Architect, IBM Software Group.
As IT systems have grown in size and sophistication, virtualization has become more and more critical for business applications. In today's business environment you need to find ways to provide the IT services you need, supporting virtualization while controlling IT complexity, reducing management effort and keeping operational expense under control.
Learn about the AIX Solution Editions where the minimum configurations can be added to as your business needs allowing for flexible quantities of memory, disk and network adapters, and your choice of tower or rack mount, to address your infrastructure requirements. For more information on Power systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
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During the last 100 years, information technology has moved from a specialized tool to a pervasive
influence on nearly every aspect of life. From tabulating machines that simply counted with mechanical
switches or vacuum tubes to the first programmable computers, IBM® has been a part of this growth,
while always helping customers to solve problems
More companies are relying on business applications designed for their
industry and tuned for specific business needs. Localization is key to business success for both multinational and regional companies. Interactions with clients, supply chain partners and other departments must be in the...
This IBM Redpaper provides a brief overview of OpenStack and a basic familiarity of its usage with the IBM XIV Storage System Gen3. The illustration scenario that is presented uses the OpenStack Folsom release implementation IaaS with Ubuntu Linux servers and the IBM Storage Driver for OpenStack. For more information on IBM Storage Systems, visit http://ibm.co/LIg7gk.
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Learn how all flash needs end to end Storage efficiency. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
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Learn about vSphere Storage API for Array Integration on the IBM Storwize family. IBM Storwize V7000 Unified combines the block storage capabilities of Storwize V7000 with file storage capabilities into a single system for greater ease of management and efficiency. For more information on IBM Storage Systems, visit http://ibm.co/LIg7gk.
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Learn about IBM FlashSystem 840 and its complete product specification in this Redbook. FlashSystem 840 provides scalable performance for the most demanding enterprise class applications. IBM FlashSystem 840 accelerates response times with IBM MicroLatency to enable faster decision making. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
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Learn about the IBM System x3250 M5,.The x3250 M5 offers the following energy-efficiency features to save energy, reduce operational costs, increase energy availability, and contribute to a green environment, energy-efficient planar components help lower operational costs. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210746104/IBM-System-x3250-M5
This Redbook talks about the product specification of IBM NeXtScale nx360 M4. The NeXtScale nx360 M4 server provides a dense, flexible solution with a low total cost of ownership (TCO). The half-wide, dual-socket NeXtScale nx360 M4 server is designed for data centers that require high performance but are constrained by floor space. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210745680/IBM-NeXtScale-nx360-M4
The IBM System x3650 M4 HD is a (1) 2-socket 2U rack-optimized server that supports up to 32 internal drives and features an innovative design for optimal performance, uptime, and dense storage. It offers (2) excellent reliability, availability, and serviceability for improved business environments. The server is (3) designed for easy deployment, integration, service, and management.
Here are the product specification for IBM System x3300 M4. This product can be managed remotely.The x3300 M4 server contains IBM IMM2, which provides advanced service-processor control, monitoring, and an alerting function. The IMM2 lights LEDs to help you diagnose the problem, records the error in the event log, and alerts you to the problem. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about IBM System x iDataPlex dx360 M4. IBM System x iDataPlex is an innovative data center solution that maximizes performance and optimizes energy and space efficiency. The iDataPlex solution provides customers with outstanding energy and cooling efficiency, multi-rack level manageability, complete flexibility in configuration, and minimal deployment effort. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210744055/IBM-System-x-iDataPlex-dx360-M4
The IBM System x3500 M4 server provides powerful and scalable performance for business applications in an energy efficient tower or rack design. It features the latest Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 or E5-2600 processors with up to 24 cores, 768GB RAM, 32 hard drives, and 8 PCIe slots. Comprehensive systems management tools and redundant components help ensure high availability, while its small footprint and 80 Plus Platinum power supplies reduce data center costs.
Learn about system specification for IBM System x3550 M4. The x3550 M4 offers numerous features to boost performance, improve scalability, and reduce costs. Improves productivity by offering superior system performance with up to 12-core processors, up to 30 MB of L3 cache, and up to two 8 GT/s QPI interconnect links. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
Learn about IBM System x3650 M4. The x3650 M4 is an outstanding 2U two-socket business-critical server, offering improved performance and pay-as-you grow flexibility along with new features that improve server management capability. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210741926/IBM-System-x3650-M4
Learn about the product specification of IBM System x3500 M3. System x3500 M3 has an energy-efficient design which works in conjunction with the IMM to govern fan rotation based on the readings that it delivers. This saves money under normal conditions because the fans do not have to spin at high speed. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210741626/IBM-System-x3500-M3
Learn about IBM System x3400 M3. The x3400 M3 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce costs, x3400 M3 has the ability to grow with your application requirements with these features. Powerful systems management features simplify local and remote management of the x3400 M3. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about IBM System 3250 M3 which is a single-socket server that offers new levels of performance and flexibility
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1. IBM Systems and Technology System z
Data Sheet
IBM zEnterprise System
The IBM zEnterprise™ System (zEnterprise) is a system that com-
Highlights bines unprecedented innovations with the IBM gold standard of enter-
prise computing—the System z® mainframe. The zEnterprise is a
● A “System of Systems”, integrating heterogeneous compute system capable of hosting many workloads
IBM’s leading technologies to dramati-
cally improve productivity of today’s integrated together, each one optimized to meet individual business
multiarchitecture data centers and goals on an IT infrastructure managed as one single entity. The
tomorrow’s private clouds. IBM zEnterprise System includes the zEnterprise 196 (z196), the
● The world’s fastest and most scalable zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension (zBX) with its integrated optimiz-
enterprise system with unrivalled relia- ers and/or select IBM blades, and the Unified Resource Manager
bility, security, and manageability. (zManager).
● Tightly integrated, landmark cross
platform systems management capabili- A zEnterprise can deploy and intelligently manage workloads across
ties and policy-based frameworks for
mainframe and distributed technologies with a single management
optimizing multitier, heterogeneous
workloads. interface. Built-in functions can extend many of IBM’s leading main-
frame-like governance and qualities of service even further to special-
ized application optimizers and select POWER7® and IBM x861 blade
servers, allowing simplified operations across all these application
environments.
The IBM zEnterprise 196 (z196) is designed with performance and
capacity for growth and large-scale consolidation and when combined
with improved security, resiliency and availability, the z196 can help to
lower both risk and reduce cost. Data serving with the IBM mainframe
platform helps you reduce complexity in your IT infrastructure
while helping you simplify compliance and leverage your core asset—
your data.
2. IBM Systems and Technology System z
Data Sheet
The new zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension (zBX) is an
infrastructure hosting the optimizers and blade servers. The
zBX utilizes a private high speed internal network that con-
nects it to the z196, which reduces the need for networking
hardware and provides inherently high security. The zBX
allows the zEnterprise to extend its strong portfolio to
support AIX® on Power and Linux® on System x®1
applications.
The IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager (zManager)
provides integrated management for the zEnterprise System.
It can dramatically simplify operations across the multiple
application environments. The Unified Resource Manager
provides energy monitoring and management, goal-oriented
resource management, increased security, virtual networking,
and information management, all integrated into a single
easy-to-use interface.
as they all create copies of data. Security is a concern and
management of all these heterogeneous silos consumes the
Extending out by bringing applications
majority of IT budget.
closer to their data
The needs of today’s business are requiring an increase in
With the new zEnterprise System, IBM welcomes the next
speed of deployment for new applications. Many customers
generation of enterprise computing—a multiarchitecture
are battling growing infrastructure complexity with many
platform that offers tighter integration between the database
tiers and nodes of independent resources spread over the
and the applications that need access to System z data but run
corporate network. Businesses are quickly realizing that sys-
on a distributed platform.
tem management information does not typically offer an
end-to-end view. Automation policies are limited to tier and
How did IBM do it? The z196 can attach the zBX infrastruc-
node boundaries. Each “island” of resources speaks a different
ture to support this new multiplatform environment. Installed
language with a different protocol. Redundancy is pervasive
in the zBX will be special purpose workload optimizers like
the new IBM Smart Analytics Optimizer for DB2® for
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3. IBM Systems and Technology System z
Data Sheet
z/OS®, V1.1 and WebSphere® DataPower® Integration (backup or restore). And from a serviceability standpoint the
Appliance XI50 for zEnterprise (DataPower XI50z), and resources, z/VM guests and blades will be able to monitor
select general purpose POWER7 blades with a statement of themselves and log errors that happen—with time stamps to
direction to add IBM x86 blades.1 Managing everything is the keep data and transaction integrity. A notification of an issue
Unified Resource Manager. It can help to deliver end-to-end can be sent to operations and a “call home” is placed to the
virtualization and management and the ability to optimize IBM System Service Representative to come out and take a
resource deployment according to individual workload repair action. Hardware management functionality that is
requirements. Now you can run an application that spans similar to what you get on any System z server today.
z/OS, Linux on System z, AIX on POWER, or Linux on
System x1 but have it under a single management umbrella. Every IT installation wants to make the best use of its
resources and maintain the highest possible throughput to
Transforming the way assets are help achieve the best possible system responsiveness and ulti-
managed and deployed mately meet Service Level Agreements. Unified Resource
The zEnterprise System is the only platform that allows the Manager manages your resources to user specified business
definition of z/VM® guests and blades as virtual servers service level objectives. It can define a group of virtual servers
within a tightly integrated and centrally managed enterprise that support an application. With the ability to monitor and
computing environment. Virtualization means fewer manage the group, dynamic adjustments can be made to
resources are required to meet peak demands. And the virtu- ensure that all applications are provided sufficient resources.
alization and integration of heterogeneous platforms brings
new collaboration of technical resources together. Packaged Using the z196 to scale to meet your
hardware can reduce the complexity of ordering and business needs
installing a system. But the real value is in the integrated, The z196 will enable growth and optimize service delivery
advanced management of all the virtual servers using the under conditions of change by taking scalability to new
Unified Resource Manager. dimensions. The all new 96 core design delivers massive scale
for consolidation, secure data serving and transaction pro-
With the Unified Resource Manager, you are able to apply cessing. The z196 is expected to deliver 40 percent more
some of the fundamental strengths of the System z environ- capacity compared to an IBM System z10® Enterprise Class
ment to a multiplatform infrastructure—think of it as gover- (z10™ EC) of equal Nway and up to 60 percent more total
nance taken to the next step. When new resources are capacity on a fully configured server than the z10 EC Model
installed, the Unified Resource Manager will be able to run E64, for average LSPR workloads running z/OS 1.11.
discovery and identify them, add them to the inventory, and
turn them on or off. It can also perform a physical configura-
tion of the resource and establish a plan for disaster recovery
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4. IBM Systems and Technology System z
Data Sheet
Our new 5.2 GHz microprocessor chip has a high-frequency satisfy coupling, cryptography, I/O and LAN requirements;
design that leverages IBM leadership technology with more for ICF and server-to-server connectivity, for the Crypto
cache than other chips and a new execution sequence that Express3 with secure coprocessors and SSL transactions,
delivers world-class per-thread performance. There are for I/O connectivity using ESCON®, FICON® or FCP,
100 new instructions that will help to deliver CPU-centric for LAN connectivity using the OSA-Express3 Gigabit,
performance. For CPU intensive workloads additional gains 10 Gigabit and 1000 BASE-T Ethernet features. The High
of up to 30 percent can be achieved via compiler improve- Performance FICON for System z (zHPF) has been
ments. Like the z10 processor chip, there are data compres- enhanced and combined with FICON Express8 bring new
sion and cryptographic processors right on the chip. levels of performance when accessing data on zHPF enabled
storage devices such as the IBM System Storage® DS8700.
The z196 has a machine type of 2817, with five models offer-
ing between one to 80 configurable cores. The server Virtualization for today—and for the
supports up to 3 TB of real memory (1 TB per LPAR) which future
is double the maximum memory available on the z10 EC. A The z/VM hypervisor offers a base for organizations that
significant reliability enhancement to the z196 is Redundant want to exploit IBM virtualization technology on one of the
Array of Independent Memory (RAIM)—similar to what is industry’s best-of-breed server environments—the System z
known in the Disk industry as Redundant Array of platform. Test and development servers can run side by side
Independent Disk (RAID). The z196 will be the first high- on the same hardware as production, helping to improve
end server in the industry to offer RAIM. The increased resource utilization and offer significant operational advan-
available capacity and memory on the server can help to tages. With the z196 design for increased capacity and the
benefit throughput on workloads such as DB2, WebSphere number of available processor cores per server, and reduced
and Linux. Beyond the customer purchased memory, there is energy usage and floor space, it is a perfect fit for large-scale
an additional 16 GB of memory for the Hardware System consolidation. The z196 virtualization capabilities can sup-
Area (HSA). The HSA holds the I/O configuration data for port up to 50 distributed servers on a single core, up to
the server. thousands on a single system.
High-speed connectivity and high bandwidth out to the data The new heterogeneous zEnterprise technology is centered
and the network are critical in achieving sufficient levels of around creating a virtual server environment for deploying
transaction throughput and enabling resources inside and applications that have affinity to data hosted on the z196 but
outside the server to maximize application requirements. runs on AIX or Linux on System x.1 The virtual servers can
The z196 uses a host bus interface with a link data rate of
6 GB using the industry-standard InfiniBand protocol to help
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5. IBM Systems and Technology System z
Data Sheet
be created and associated with a pool of resources that are Optimizers installed in the zBX are specialized appliances
then grouped with System z virtual servers to define a that are dedicated to workloads. The optimizer is made up of
workload for which coherent management and performance hardware and software, in a closed environment, dedicated to
policies can be defined and enforced. This will allow better a specific workload and highly integrated with z/OS. The
end-to-end application integration with System z transaction IBM Smart Analytics Optimizer installed in the zEnterprise
processing, messaging and data serving capabilities. can offer data-in-memory support to deliver significant
performance and/or lower cost per transaction for queries
A new world of application support redirected to the solution. The DataPower XI50z for
System z is optimized to provide best-of-breed support for zEnterprise is a multifunctional appliance that can be imple-
mission-critical data and mixed workloads. Data processing mented to provide XML hardware acceleration, streamline
requires exceptional single-thread performance, so the z196 is and secure valuable service-oriented architecture (SOA)
engineered with a strong threading model and robust cache applications, or provide drop in integration for heteroge-
in support of the processing of data—as opposed to a neous environments by enabling core Enterprise Service
throughput computing design targeting more generic appli- Bus (ESB) functionality including routing, bridging, transfor-
cations. This strategy allows the z196 to deliver exceptional mation and event handling.
data management capabilities while also accommodating
mixed applications that have close affinity to this data. Workloads across all industries fit the zEnterprise model. In
banking there are components across retail and wholesale
There will always be situations where end-to-end application banking that rely on several architectures to execute, but the
logic is best served by a set of closely federated heteroge- core of most banking relies on System z and z/OS. Insurance
neous resources that includes System z and other processor typically maintains Claims processing on System z but
types. For example, there are particular industry processes reaches out to the internet for interaction with consumers,
where a distributed topology is the de facto standard. Even utilizing Linux, UNIX® and Intel®. Government is relying
when most processing is performed on System z, some criti- more and more on the web based capability to reach out to
cal software element might not be available and must be consumers and improve the rate of return for taxes, accurate
deployed on a distributed server. Now on zEnterprise, an payment of social benefits and even Census based reporting.
IBM blade, installed in the zBX, can be used to host And these examples run in retail, healthcare and telecommu-
applications with the Unified Resource Manager enabling nications as well.
application integration with System z transaction processing,
messaging and data serving capabilities.
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6. IBM Systems and Technology System z
Data Sheet
Specialty engines offer more choice secure connections in an enterprise. In addition, zIIP (with
System z specialty engines can help deliver greater efficien- z/OS V1.10 and above) supports select z/OS Global Mirror
cies and expand the use of the mainframe for a broader (formerly called Extended Remote Copy, XRC) disk copy
set of applications, while helping to lower the total cost of service functions. z/OS V1.10 introduced zIIP Assisted
ownership. HiperSockets™ for large messages.
The System z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) is The System z Application Assist Processor (zAAP) is
designed to support and run data and transaction processing designed to support new application technologies such
and network workloads and to make the consolidation of as Java™ and XML and helps make running these new appli-
these workloads on to System z more cost effective. cation technologies on z/OS more cost effective. Workloads
Workloads eligible for the zIIP (with z/OS V1.7 or a later) eligible for the zAAP (with z/OS V1.8) include all Java
include remote connectivity to DB2 to help support these processed via the IBM Solution Developers Kit (SDK) and
workloads: Business Intelligence (BI), Enterprise Relationship XML processed locally via z/OS XML System Services. z/OS
Management (ERP), Customer Relationship Management v1.11 is enhanced with a new capability that can enable zAAP
(CRM) and Extensible Markup Language (XML) applica- eligible workloads to run on zIIPs. This capability can allow
tions. z/OS V1.11, together with DB2 for z/OS Version 8 or you to run zIIP and zAAP eligible workloads together on just
DB2 9 DB2 utilities, now offers additional capabilities for one specialty engine—the zIIP.
exploiting zIIPs. DB2 utilities sorting fixed-length records
using IBM’s memory object sorting technique can have a The z196 also features the Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL)
portion of the workload redirected to a zIIP when one is to support Linux and open standards creating a great oppor-
available. In addition to supporting remote connectivity tunity for large-scale consolidation. Linux brings a wealth of
to DB2 (via DRDA® over TCP/IP) the zIIP also supports available applications that can be run in a real or virtual envi-
DB2 long-running parallel queries—a workload integral to ronment within z196. An example is the z/VSE® strategy,
Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing solutions. A which supports integration between the IFL, z/VSE and
solution from IBM Global Business Services (GBS), Linux on System z to help customers integrate timely pro-
IBM Scalable Architecture for Financial Reporting (SAFR), a duction of z/VSE data into new Linux applications, such as
highly efficient and scalable business intelligence reporting data warehouse environments built upon a DB2 data server
solution, can be enabled for the zIIP. The zIIP (with z/OS (all of which are supported as a guest on z/VM 5.4 with
V1.8 and above) also supports IPSec processing, making the z/VM mode partitions).
zIIP an IPSec encryption engine helpful in creating highly
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7. IBM Systems and Technology System z
Data Sheet
Improve your agility to respond to monitor and provide trend reporting of energy efficiency for
change the entire heterogeneous infrastructure. New static power
Along with having multiple technologies to manage, IT savings mode allows for turning off engines that are not being
departments must be agile so they can respond rapidly to used. New query max potential power will help when doing
change. It may be necessary to coordinate changes in people, total data center energy use management.
processes and technology. The z196 can help.
There is value in reducing wattage and power across the
The server will continue to build on the System z capacity entire data center and zEnterprise offers solutions that can
on-demand offerings that simplify making modifications. help. The z196 will have a water cooled option that doesn’t
Permanent Capacity Upgrade can be initiated by the cus- increase the system footprint and offers energy savings with-
tomer using Resource Link via CIU (Customer Initiated out compromising performance. There is an option for high-
Upgrade). Temporary capacity is available with IBM On/Off voltage dc, which can eliminate the need for a Universal
Capacity on Demand (On/Off CoD) when satisfying short- Power Supply (UPS) inverter and Power Distribution Unit
term spikes in capacity or for testing new applications when (PDU). Top exit I/O cabling can improve flexibility in the
needed. Capacity Back-up (CBU) can help provide reserved data center by helping to increase air flow in a raised-floor
emergency capacity for multiple processor configurations. environment. And the zBX has an optional rear door heat
And Capacity for Planned Events (CPE), a variation on CBU exchanger to reduce energy consumption.
is available when there is unallocated capacity available in a
server, CPE will allow up to the maximum capacity available New system. New possibilities. New
to be used for planned events such as planned maintenance in value.
a data center. A three-day CPE contract can be purchased at The zEnterprise System is a revolutionary new mainframe—a
a fixed price based on the amount of capacity you need to truly integrated hardware platform that is able to span and
turn on. intelligently manage workloads across mainframe and distrib-
uted technologies. The multiplatform system managed with
Helping to manage energy usage the zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager brings integration
Power and cooling discussions continue to be part of any IT of governance to manage risk across the infrastructure, inte-
budget planning. As energy prices have risen and utilities gration that will help to accelerate insight for the business,
have restricted the amount of power usage, it is important to integration of processes to increase business agility, and inte-
review the role of the server in balancing IT spending. A gration of people to enable new business innovation.
zEnterprise System can help take better control of energy
usage in the data center. Unified Resource Manager will
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8. IBM Systems and Technology System z
Data Sheet
IBM zEnterprise System (2817) at a glance
Processor Core Types: CP / IFL / ICF / zAAP2 / zIIP2 / zBX
Model Minimum Maximum
M15 1/0 /0/0/0/0
3
15 / 15 / 15 / 7 / 7 / 1
M32 1 / 03 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 32 / 32 / 16 / 16 / 16 / 1
M49 1/0 /0/0/0/0
3
49 / 49 / 16 / 24 / 24 / 1
M66 1/0 /0/0/0/0
3
66 / 66 / 16 / 33 / 33 / 1
M80 1 / 03 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 80 / 80 / 16 / 40 / 40 / 1
Coupling Links
Maximum # external 80
coupling links
ISC-3 maximum4 48
IC maximum 32
InfiniBand maximum 32
CHPID maximum 128
Channels
Minimum: 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 ESCON / FICON Express8 / FICON Express4 / OSA-Express3 / OSA-Express2
Maximum: 240 / 336 / 336 / ESCON / FICON Express8 / FICON Express4 / OSA-Express3 / OSA-Express2
96:48 / 48
HiperSockets Up to 32 high-speed “virtual” Local Area Networks
Crypographic
Crypto Express3 Minimum order is two features, maximum is eight features (16 PCIe adapters)
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9. IBM Systems and Technology System z
Data Sheet
IBM zEnterprise System (2817) at a glance
Processor Memory
Model Minimum Maximum
M15 32 GB 7525 GB
M32 32 GB 1520 GB
M49 32 GB 2288 GB
M66 32 GB 3056 GB
M80 32 GB 3056 GB
Upgradeability
Upgradeable within the z196 family
Upgrading to the M80 from other z196 models will require a planned outage
Upgradeable from IBM System z10 Enterprise Class and IBM System z9® Enterprise Class
Supported Operating Systems
z/OS z/OS V1.9 and subsequent releases6
z/VM: z/VM 5.4 and subsequent releases
Linux on System z: Red Hat RHEL 5 and subsequent releases, Novell SUSE SLES 10 and subsequent releases, Linux as z/VM guest
z/VSE z/VSE V4.2 and subsequent releases
z/TPF z/TPF 1.1
AIX® (on POWER7 blade AIX 5.3 and subsequent releases and PowerVM™ Enterprise Edition
located in zBX)
IBM zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension (zBX) Model 002
IBM Smart Analytics Optimizer 5 solution sizes: 7, 14, 28, 42, 56
WebSphere DataPower Minimum: 0 Maximum: 287
Integration Appliance XI50 for
zEnterprise
POWER7 blades Minimum: 0 Maximum: 1127
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