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IBM zEnterprise: The smart
platform for business applications
2   IBM zEnterprise: The smart platform for business applications




The right platform for success—today and
in the future
The newest generation of IBM System z® servers is a smarter         Business Applications on IBM zEnterprise
system that delivers the data serving power, security, resiliency
and scalability required by today’s and tomorrow’s enterprise
business applications.

These new servers combine the computational strength of
                                                                       Performance
IBM POWER® systems required for high-performance com-
puting and application serving, the breadth of IBM System x®
systems required for low-cost application and front-end web
application serving, and the System z platform, with its long
                                                                                               Scalability
track record of proven success in critical environments.

The new IBM zEnterprise™ System delivers groundbreaking
flexibility to help you simplify operations and improve service
quality. System z virtualization and intelligent workload man-          Flexibility

agement capabilities provide a strong foundation that enables
multiple workloads to run on a single system with high utiliza-
tion rates. And zEnterprise takes a bold new step. It allows
workloads running on multiple heterogeneous platforms to be                                   Integration
consolidated and managed as a single system delivering
System z’s proven qualities of service that business-critical
applications require.
                                                                       Availability
With zEnterprise, you can take advantage of the workload
processing options best suited to your business requirements.
You can break down the barriers of siloed computing struc-
tures because you have a new catalyst for innovation and                                        Security
growth. You can reduce the chance of operational errors and
downtime, with centralized management capabilities that
streamline processes and require fewer resources.
                                                                         Disaster
                                                                        Recovery
IBM Systems and Technology Group   3




Building a bridge across enterprise                                choice that zEnterprise provides can help organizations lower
platforms                                                          costs, capture insights and act on new opportunities. Consider
Mergers and acquisitions, evolving IT strategies, new tech-        a few ways in which this platform can be used to extend the
nologies and the passage of time have combined to create           value of existing IT investments.
complex enterprise computing environments—with broad
                                                                   SAP Business Suite and SAP industry solutions
application portfolios spread across numerous platforms.
                                                                   Scenario: A university runs SAP human resource, finance, pro-
                                                                   curement and general business applications. It wants to extend
zEnterprise delivers a smarter system that addresses the
                                                                   services to additional branch campuses. The challenge is to
challenges these complex environments create. With the
                                                                   expand without adding management headaches or unnecessar-
zEnterprise platform, integrated mainframe, IBM POWER7®
                                                                   ily increasing costs—all while ensuring availability across loca-
and System x technologies come together from across the
                                                                   tions. The answer lies in consolidating applications from the
enterprise to create an end-to-end infrastructure for enterprise
                                                                   Intel® processor-based distributed server environment and
business applications.
                                                                   integrating them with zEnterprise.
zEnterprise provides a robust foundation to support
                                                                   Applications for banking and other financial industries
IBM DB2® running on IBM z/OS® for data serving. It sup-
                                                                   Scenario: A bank can reduce costs and gain client insight more
ports a new set of flexible options for deploying business
                                                                   quickly if it upgrades applications while leveraging its existing
applications. And it enables you to run enterprise workloads
                                                                   investments in core systems and data. zEnterprise can simplify
that span z/OS, Linux® on System z, IBM AIX® on
                                                                   a complex infrastructure and provide flexible new alternatives
IBM Power Systems™ and Linux on System x—all under a
                                                                   to deliver value to the bank’s customers. The bank can deploy
single system management umbrella.
                                                                   new capabilities while extending and protecting its IT assets.

zEnterprise can help free up valuable resources and enable the     Customer relationship management applications
level of collaboration required for solving today’s business       Scenario: A nationwide retail business implements zEnterprise
challenges. It can reduce time to market for new projects by       to provide the ideal platform for reaching outward to serve its
reusing proven assets. It can improve efficiency with advanced     customers while at the same time reaching inward to leverage
automation capabilities that reduce manual operations and the      existing investments in processes and data. The flexible, inte-
risk of errors. And it can enable quicker response to changing     grated format of zEnterprise allows improvements in effi-
business requirements, helping to drive your top-line revenue      ciency and supports global operations with a smaller carbon
growth and deliver improved bottom-line profit.                     footprint.

Extending the value of existing IT                                 Meeting key enterprise needs for
investments                                                        demanding applications
The tightly integrated zEnterprise solution delivers on the        zEnterprise provides a high-performance foundation for mov-
strengths inherent in mainframes to provide the premier plat-      ing business forward. It frees organizations to modernize
form for enterprise business applications. The flexibility and      legacy applications, extend existing applications and consoli-
                                                                   date functions of applications. zEnterprise is designed to fulfill
4   IBM zEnterprise: The smart platform for business applications




the requirements of the most demanding business applica-            Many of today’s enterprise environments suffer from server
tions, setting the stage for highly effective and efficient         sprawl and escalating complexity. As a result, significant por-
operation.                                                          tions of today’s IT budgets are consumed by IT operations.
                                                                    zEnterprise enables new levels of integration and provides
Flexibility                                                         automated management capabilities—helping to solve these
Today’s enterprise computing environments are heterogeneous         challenges and free up valuable resources.
and multiplatform both because they have grown over time
and because they often are optimized to run specific types of        Extensive automation and intelligent workload management
workloads. These workloads include database and transaction         capabilities combined with industry-leading integration can
processing, numerically intensive computing, data analytics,        help you manage and optimize all aspects of IT services to
web-based interactions and a myriad of single-purpose appli-        achieve more efficient utilization of system resources. With
cations. While optimizing each of these workloads in its native     advanced virtualization capabilities such as automated fast
environment is smart, optimizing the way they work together         cloning, zEnterprise makes it easier to keep up with growth
in an integrated IT infrastructure is smarter.                      and changing business requirements. New application servers
                                                                    can be deployed rapidly, reducing server deployment time
zEnterprise can reach across platforms, consolidate islands of      from weeks to minutes.
computing, reduce complexity, help improve security and
bring applications closer to the data they need. zEnterprise        Security
provides the flexibility to consolidate and manage business          zEnterprise provides comprehensive protection against a full
applications on the optimum platform, creating the best fit for      range of IT threats. Its support for massive throughput of
the workload.                                                       secure transactions includes simplified encryption and key
                                                                    management to protect data at rest, data in flight and data on
zEnterprise brings heterogeneous environments together into         removable media. zEnterprise also provides centralized iden-
a single system. It provides central management of critical         tity and access management to simplify security administra-
operational aspects, including goal-oriented policy manage-         tion, auditing, reporting and compliance.
ment, increased security, dedicated virtual networks, improved
data handling, and energy management. With zEnterprise,             Virtualization on zEnterprise enables fewer physical server
you can extend mainframe-like governance and qualities of           images, fewer intrusion points, fewer points of failure, and a
service to special-purpose workload optimizers and to               common security domain across these servers. In addition,
POWER7 and System x general-purpose processors.                     IBM Tivoli® zSecure and IBM RACF®, also known as the
                                                                    z/OS Security Server, can further reduce risk and simplify
Integration                                                         governance and compliance as compared to a physically dis-
System z provides robust integration of z/OS-, Linux-,              tributed environment.
AIX- and Microsoft® Windows®-based applications.
zEnterprise builds on this foundation by providing new
options for applications on AIX and Linux deployed on
IBM blades.
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Scalability                                                         Disaster recovery
Deploying DB2 for z/OS on zEnterprise provides outstanding          zEnterprise with IBM Geographically Dispersed Parallel
database scalability and the ability to handle increased volumes    Sysplex™ (GDPS®) provides a comprehensive high-
of data. Business applications can take advantage of the unique     availability and disaster recovery solution tailored to your
parallel database design of DB2 data sharing, which delivers a      business requirements and your budget. GDPS enables a sin-
high-availability environment that eliminates the need to split     gle disaster environment and recovery plan. It provides a
data across multiple servers.                                       single consistency group across multiple platforms including
                                                                    z/OS, IBM z/VM® and Linux on z. It provides continuous
zEnterprise provides more total systems capacity, with an           availability and disaster recovery for heterogeneous distributed
increased number of engines and improved performance. It            applications using GDPS Distributed Cluster Manager and
also provides new scalable options for applications deployed        Tivoli Systems Automation Application Manager.
on IBM blades. These enhancements enable near-linear scala-
bility unmatched in the IT industry. With zEnterprise’s ability     zEnterprise: Helping organizations move
to handle billions of instructions per second, you can consoli-     forward
date more workloads. And with zEnterprise’s On/Off Capacity         zEnterprise delivers on the strengths inherent in IBM main-
on Demand capability, you can respond dynamically to chang-         frames to provide the premier platform for enterprise business
ing business requirements.                                          applications. It gives organizations the ability to optimize
                                                                    deployments in the way that best fits business needs with tech-
Availability
                                                                    nologies to span the entire enterprise—including workloads
zEnterprise can provide continuous availability for hardware,
                                                                    on z/OS, Linux on z, IBM POWER and System x blades.
operating systems and data. In today’s dynamic global market-
place, very high availability of the system is crucial to the
                                                                    zEnterprise is the technology of choice for simplifying com-
competitiveness of the enterprise. For such high availability, it
                                                                    plex infrastructures by integrating applications across hetero-
is essential to eliminate all single points of failure in the IT
                                                                    geneous platforms. This breakthrough solution enhances the
system.
                                                                    integration of platforms optimized for single applications. It
                                                                    extends unprecedented scale and quality of service to distrib-
DB2 Data Sharing and IBM Parallel Sysplex® architecture on
                                                                    uted workloads at competitive prices.
z/OS can provide nearly nonstop availability. Systems manage-
ment activity can be performed without planned downtime.
                                                                    zEnterprise makes keeping up with exponential growth
z/OS Parallel Sysplex helps to keep the business applications
                                                                    and dynamic business requirements more efficient, helping
available even if a single system must be stopped. Different
                                                                    your enterprise be more competitive in a nonstop global
DB2 and z/OS maintenance and release levels are allowed
                                                                    marketplace.
within a sysplex, enabling rolling maintenance and software
upgrades.
For more information
To learn more about the value of running your enterprise
business applications on the IBM zEnterprise platform, please
contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner, or
visit ibm.com/systems/z
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IBM zEnterprise: The smart platform for business applications

  • 1. IBM Systems and Technology Group IBM System z IBM zEnterprise: The smart platform for business applications
  • 2. 2 IBM zEnterprise: The smart platform for business applications The right platform for success—today and in the future The newest generation of IBM System z® servers is a smarter Business Applications on IBM zEnterprise system that delivers the data serving power, security, resiliency and scalability required by today’s and tomorrow’s enterprise business applications. These new servers combine the computational strength of Performance IBM POWER® systems required for high-performance com- puting and application serving, the breadth of IBM System x® systems required for low-cost application and front-end web application serving, and the System z platform, with its long Scalability track record of proven success in critical environments. The new IBM zEnterprise™ System delivers groundbreaking flexibility to help you simplify operations and improve service quality. System z virtualization and intelligent workload man- Flexibility agement capabilities provide a strong foundation that enables multiple workloads to run on a single system with high utiliza- tion rates. And zEnterprise takes a bold new step. It allows workloads running on multiple heterogeneous platforms to be Integration consolidated and managed as a single system delivering System z’s proven qualities of service that business-critical applications require. Availability With zEnterprise, you can take advantage of the workload processing options best suited to your business requirements. You can break down the barriers of siloed computing struc- tures because you have a new catalyst for innovation and Security growth. You can reduce the chance of operational errors and downtime, with centralized management capabilities that streamline processes and require fewer resources. Disaster Recovery
  • 3. IBM Systems and Technology Group 3 Building a bridge across enterprise choice that zEnterprise provides can help organizations lower platforms costs, capture insights and act on new opportunities. Consider Mergers and acquisitions, evolving IT strategies, new tech- a few ways in which this platform can be used to extend the nologies and the passage of time have combined to create value of existing IT investments. complex enterprise computing environments—with broad SAP Business Suite and SAP industry solutions application portfolios spread across numerous platforms. Scenario: A university runs SAP human resource, finance, pro- curement and general business applications. It wants to extend zEnterprise delivers a smarter system that addresses the services to additional branch campuses. The challenge is to challenges these complex environments create. With the expand without adding management headaches or unnecessar- zEnterprise platform, integrated mainframe, IBM POWER7® ily increasing costs—all while ensuring availability across loca- and System x technologies come together from across the tions. The answer lies in consolidating applications from the enterprise to create an end-to-end infrastructure for enterprise Intel® processor-based distributed server environment and business applications. integrating them with zEnterprise. zEnterprise provides a robust foundation to support Applications for banking and other financial industries IBM DB2® running on IBM z/OS® for data serving. It sup- Scenario: A bank can reduce costs and gain client insight more ports a new set of flexible options for deploying business quickly if it upgrades applications while leveraging its existing applications. And it enables you to run enterprise workloads investments in core systems and data. zEnterprise can simplify that span z/OS, Linux® on System z, IBM AIX® on a complex infrastructure and provide flexible new alternatives IBM Power Systems™ and Linux on System x—all under a to deliver value to the bank’s customers. The bank can deploy single system management umbrella. new capabilities while extending and protecting its IT assets. zEnterprise can help free up valuable resources and enable the Customer relationship management applications level of collaboration required for solving today’s business Scenario: A nationwide retail business implements zEnterprise challenges. It can reduce time to market for new projects by to provide the ideal platform for reaching outward to serve its reusing proven assets. It can improve efficiency with advanced customers while at the same time reaching inward to leverage automation capabilities that reduce manual operations and the existing investments in processes and data. The flexible, inte- risk of errors. And it can enable quicker response to changing grated format of zEnterprise allows improvements in effi- business requirements, helping to drive your top-line revenue ciency and supports global operations with a smaller carbon growth and deliver improved bottom-line profit. footprint. Extending the value of existing IT Meeting key enterprise needs for investments demanding applications The tightly integrated zEnterprise solution delivers on the zEnterprise provides a high-performance foundation for mov- strengths inherent in mainframes to provide the premier plat- ing business forward. It frees organizations to modernize form for enterprise business applications. The flexibility and legacy applications, extend existing applications and consoli- date functions of applications. zEnterprise is designed to fulfill
  • 4. 4 IBM zEnterprise: The smart platform for business applications the requirements of the most demanding business applica- Many of today’s enterprise environments suffer from server tions, setting the stage for highly effective and efficient sprawl and escalating complexity. As a result, significant por- operation. tions of today’s IT budgets are consumed by IT operations. zEnterprise enables new levels of integration and provides Flexibility automated management capabilities—helping to solve these Today’s enterprise computing environments are heterogeneous challenges and free up valuable resources. and multiplatform both because they have grown over time and because they often are optimized to run specific types of Extensive automation and intelligent workload management workloads. These workloads include database and transaction capabilities combined with industry-leading integration can processing, numerically intensive computing, data analytics, help you manage and optimize all aspects of IT services to web-based interactions and a myriad of single-purpose appli- achieve more efficient utilization of system resources. With cations. While optimizing each of these workloads in its native advanced virtualization capabilities such as automated fast environment is smart, optimizing the way they work together cloning, zEnterprise makes it easier to keep up with growth in an integrated IT infrastructure is smarter. and changing business requirements. New application servers can be deployed rapidly, reducing server deployment time zEnterprise can reach across platforms, consolidate islands of from weeks to minutes. computing, reduce complexity, help improve security and bring applications closer to the data they need. zEnterprise Security provides the flexibility to consolidate and manage business zEnterprise provides comprehensive protection against a full applications on the optimum platform, creating the best fit for range of IT threats. Its support for massive throughput of the workload. secure transactions includes simplified encryption and key management to protect data at rest, data in flight and data on zEnterprise brings heterogeneous environments together into removable media. zEnterprise also provides centralized iden- a single system. It provides central management of critical tity and access management to simplify security administra- operational aspects, including goal-oriented policy manage- tion, auditing, reporting and compliance. ment, increased security, dedicated virtual networks, improved data handling, and energy management. With zEnterprise, Virtualization on zEnterprise enables fewer physical server you can extend mainframe-like governance and qualities of images, fewer intrusion points, fewer points of failure, and a service to special-purpose workload optimizers and to common security domain across these servers. In addition, POWER7 and System x general-purpose processors. IBM Tivoli® zSecure and IBM RACF®, also known as the z/OS Security Server, can further reduce risk and simplify Integration governance and compliance as compared to a physically dis- System z provides robust integration of z/OS-, Linux-, tributed environment. AIX- and Microsoft® Windows®-based applications. zEnterprise builds on this foundation by providing new options for applications on AIX and Linux deployed on IBM blades.
  • 5. IBM Systems and Technology Group 5 Scalability Disaster recovery Deploying DB2 for z/OS on zEnterprise provides outstanding zEnterprise with IBM Geographically Dispersed Parallel database scalability and the ability to handle increased volumes Sysplex™ (GDPS®) provides a comprehensive high- of data. Business applications can take advantage of the unique availability and disaster recovery solution tailored to your parallel database design of DB2 data sharing, which delivers a business requirements and your budget. GDPS enables a sin- high-availability environment that eliminates the need to split gle disaster environment and recovery plan. It provides a data across multiple servers. single consistency group across multiple platforms including z/OS, IBM z/VM® and Linux on z. It provides continuous zEnterprise provides more total systems capacity, with an availability and disaster recovery for heterogeneous distributed increased number of engines and improved performance. It applications using GDPS Distributed Cluster Manager and also provides new scalable options for applications deployed Tivoli Systems Automation Application Manager. on IBM blades. These enhancements enable near-linear scala- bility unmatched in the IT industry. With zEnterprise’s ability zEnterprise: Helping organizations move to handle billions of instructions per second, you can consoli- forward date more workloads. And with zEnterprise’s On/Off Capacity zEnterprise delivers on the strengths inherent in IBM main- on Demand capability, you can respond dynamically to chang- frames to provide the premier platform for enterprise business ing business requirements. applications. It gives organizations the ability to optimize deployments in the way that best fits business needs with tech- Availability nologies to span the entire enterprise—including workloads zEnterprise can provide continuous availability for hardware, on z/OS, Linux on z, IBM POWER and System x blades. operating systems and data. In today’s dynamic global market- place, very high availability of the system is crucial to the zEnterprise is the technology of choice for simplifying com- competitiveness of the enterprise. For such high availability, it plex infrastructures by integrating applications across hetero- is essential to eliminate all single points of failure in the IT geneous platforms. This breakthrough solution enhances the system. integration of platforms optimized for single applications. It extends unprecedented scale and quality of service to distrib- DB2 Data Sharing and IBM Parallel Sysplex® architecture on uted workloads at competitive prices. z/OS can provide nearly nonstop availability. Systems manage- ment activity can be performed without planned downtime. zEnterprise makes keeping up with exponential growth z/OS Parallel Sysplex helps to keep the business applications and dynamic business requirements more efficient, helping available even if a single system must be stopped. Different your enterprise be more competitive in a nonstop global DB2 and z/OS maintenance and release levels are allowed marketplace. within a sysplex, enabling rolling maintenance and software upgrades.
  • 6. For more information To learn more about the value of running your enterprise business applications on the IBM zEnterprise platform, please contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner, or visit ibm.com/systems/z © Copyright IBM Corporation 2010 IBM Systems and Technology Group Route 100 Somers, NY 10589 U.S.A. Produced in the United States of America July 2010 This document could include technical inaccuracies or typographical All Rights Reserved errors. IBM may not offer the products, services or features discussed in this document in other countries, and the product information may be IBM, the IBM logo, ibm.com, POWER, System x and System z are subject to change without notice. Consult your local IBM business trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines contact for information on the product or services available in your Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. If these and area. Any statements regarding IBM’s future direction and intent are other IBM trademarked terms are marked on their first occurrence in this subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and information with a trademark symbol (® or ™), these symbols indicate objectives only. The information contained in this document is current U.S. registered or common law trademarks owned by IBM at the time as of the initial date of publication only and is subject to change without this information was published. Such trademarks may also be registered notice. All performance information was determined in a controlled or common law trademarks in other countries. A current list of environment. Actual results may vary. Performance information is IBM trademarks is available on the web at “Copyright and trademark provided “as is” and no warranties or guarantees are expressed or information” at ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml implied by IBM. Information concerning non-IBM products was obtained from the suppliers of their products their published Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in announcements or other publicly available sources. Questions on the the United States and other countries. capabilities of the non-IBM products should be addressed with the Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States, suppliers. IBM does not warrant that the information offered herein other countries, or both. will meet your requirements or those of your distributors or customers. IBM provides this information “as is” without warranty. IBM disclaims Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the all warranties, express or implied, including the implied warranties of United States, other countries, or both. noninfringement, merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose or noninfringement. IBM products are warranted according to the terms Other company, product and service names may be trademarks or service and conditions of the agreements under which they are provided. marks of others. Please Recycle ZSB03038-USEN-00