IBM System Z10 Business Class (Z10 BC)

The Mainframe made over—Smart, Cool, Affordable IBM System z10 Business Class (z10 BC) In today’s world, IT is woven into almost everything that a business does and consequently is pivotal to a business. Yet technology leaders are challenged to manage sprawling, complex distrib uted infrastructures and the ever grow ing flow of data while remaining highly responsive to the demands of the busi ness. And they must continually evalu ate and decide when and how to adopt a multitude of innovations to keep the company competitive. IBM has a vision that can help—the new enterprise data center—an evolutionary model that Highlights helps reset the economics of IT and can dramatically improve operational ■ Industry leading combination of ■ Save energy via consolidation efficiency. It also can help reduce and System z10 security, resiliency, of disparate workloads and control rising costs and improve provi virtualization and connectivity reduce costs via virtualization sioning speed and data center security technologies packaged specifi capabilities for more efficient and resiliency. It will allow you to be cally as a midrange enterprise resource sharing highly responsive to any user need. And solution it aligns technology and business— ■ Enables future growth—as a giving you the freedom and the tools ■ Specialty engines offer an modern platform for a growing you need to innovate and be competi attractive alternative when portfolio of business solutions tive. System z™ is an excellent choice running new workloads as the foundation for a highly respon ■ Up to 50% more performance at sive infrastructure. half the price for incremental Linux workloads (*) New world. New business. A whole Smart Technology for a changing IT world The z10 BC advances the innovation of new mainframe. Meet the new The z10 BC has the machine type of the System z10 platform and brings IBM System z10™ Business Class 2098, with one model (E10) offering value to a wider audience. It is built (z10™ BC), the technology that could between one to ten configurable using a new redesigned air cooled change the way you think about Processor Cores. This model design drawer package which replaces the Enterprise solutions. The technology offers increased flexibility over the two prior “book” concept in order to reduce that delivers the scalability, flexibility, model System z9® BC by delivering cost and increase flexibility. A and breakthrough performance you seamless growth within a single model, redesigned I/O drawer offers higher need—at the lower capacity entry point both temporary and permanent. availability and can be concurrently you want. This is the technology that added or replaced when at least two fights old myths and perceptions— The z10 BC delivers improvements in drawers are installed. Reduced capacity that’s not just for banks and insurance both the granular increments and total and priced I/O features will continue to companies. This is the technology for scalability compared to previous be offered on the z10 BC to help lower any business that wants to ramp up System z midrange servers, achieved your total cost of acquisition. The new innovation, boost efficiencies and lower by both increasing the performance of quad core design z10 processor chip costs—pretty much any enterprise, any the individual core as well as increasing delivers higher frequency and will be size, any location. This is a new main the number of cores per server. The introduced at 3.5 GHz which can help frame technology for a new kind of data z10 BC delivers up to 1.4X more improve the execution of CPU intensive center—resilient, responsive, energy capacity on average for a uni-processor workloads on the z10 BC up to 2.5x efficient—the new enterprise data cen compared to the IBM System z9 compared to z9 BC. These new design ter. This is z10 BC. And it’s about to Business Class (z9™ BC) and up to approaches facilitate the high-availabil rewrite the rules and deliver new free 1.5X more capacity on a fully config ity, dynamic capabilities and lower cost doms for your business. Whether you ured server than a z9 BC Model S07, that differentiate this z10 BC from other want to deploy new applications for average LSPR workloads running servers. quickly, grow your business without z/OS® 1.9. growing IT costs or consolidate your The z10 BC supports from 4 GB up to infrastructure for reduced complexity, 120 GB of real memory with options up look no further—z Can Do IT. to 248 GB planned in June 2009. This is almost four times the maximum memory available on the z9 BC. The Think Big, Virtually Limitless used to consolidate x86 servers. With increased available memory on the The Information Technology industry increased capacity the z10 BC virtual server can help to benefit workloads has recognized the business value of ization capabilities can help to support that perform better with larger memory exploiting virtualization technologies on hundreds of virtual servers in a single configurations, such as DB2®, any and all server platforms. The lead 1.42 square meters footprint. When WebSphere® and Linux®. In addition ing edge virtualization capabilities of consolidating on System z you can to the customer purchased memory, an System z, backed by over 40 years of create virtual servers on demand; additional 8 GB of memory is included technology innovation, are the most achieve network savings through for the Hardware System Area (HSA). advanced in the industry. With utilization HiperSockets™ (internal LAN); improve The HSA holds the I/O configuration rates of up to 100%, it’s the perfect systems management of virtual servers; data for the server and is entirely platform for workload consolidation, and most importantly, consolidate soft fenced from customer memory. both traditional and new. ware from many distributed servers to a single consolidated server. High speed connectivity and high band ● Want to deploy dozens—or width out to the data and the network hundreds—of applications on a sin So why run hundreds of stand-alone are critical in achieving high levels of gle server for lower total cost of servers when z10 BC could do the transaction throughput and enabling ownership? Want a more simplified, work more efficiently, in a smaller resources inside and outside the server responsive infrastructure? space, at a lower cost? Less power. to maximize application requirements. ● Want investment protection where Less space. Less impact on the The z10 BC has a new host bus inter new generation technology typically environment. face with a link data rate of 6 GB using allows application growth at no the industry standard InfiniBand® pro extra cost? Keep cool—Monitoring of energy tocol to help satisfy requirements for consumption coupling (ICF and server-to-server The virtualization technology found in Power and cooling discussions have connectivity), cryptography (Crypto z/VM® with the System z platform may entered the budget planning of every IT Express2 with secure coprocessors and help clients achieve all of these opera environment. As energy prices have SSL transactions), I/O (ESCON®, tional goals while also helping to risen and utilities have restricted the FICON® or FCP) and LAN (new OSA maximize the financial return on their amount of power usage, it is important Express3 Gigabit, 10 Gigabit and System z investments. to review the role of the server in bal 1000BASE-T Ethernet features). New ancing IT spending. To assist in energy High Performance FICON for System z The z10 BC can have big advantages planning, Resource Link™ provides (zHPF) also brings new levels of per over traditional server farms. The tools to estimate server energy require formance when accessing data on z10 BC is designed to reduce energy ments before a new server purchase. zHPF enabled storage devices such as usage and save floor space when And once the z10 BC is installed and the IBM System Storage DS8000™. operational, the mainframe power moni toring tool, introduced on the System z9 servers, provides power and thermal When you need to be more secure, The z10 BC is designed to meet information via the System Activity more resilient, z Can Do IT. The z10 Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Display (SAD). The tool offers an energy processor chip has on board crypto Level 5 (EAL5) certification for the secu consumption point-in-time reference. graphic functions. Standard clear key rity of its logical partitions. With a z10 BC, this information can be integrated cryptographic coprocessors fed into IBM Systems Director Active provide high speed cryptography for System z security is one of the many Energy Manager™ (AEM) for Linux on protecting data in storage. CP Assist reasons why the world’s top banks and System z V3.1. AEM for Linux on for Cryptographic Function (CPACF) retailers rely on the IBM mainframe to System z will allow tracking of trends supports DES, TDES, Secure Hash help secure sensitive business transac for both the z10 BC as well as multiple Algorithms (SHA) for up to 512 bits, tions. z Can Do IT securely. server platforms. With this trend analy Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) sis, a data center administrator will for up to 256 bits and Pseudo Random More Solutions, More Affordable have the data to help properly Number Generation (PRNG). Audit log Today’s businesses with extensive estimate power inputs and more accu ging has been added to the new TKE investments in hardware assets and rately plan data center consolidation or workstation to enable better problem core applications are demanding more modification projects. tracking. from IT—more value, more transac tions, more for the money. Above all, Serve and Protect, Providing affordable System z is investing in accelerators they are looking for business solutions protection that provide improved performance for that can help enable business growth Today’s world mandates that your specialized functions.

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