IBM System z10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC) Overview
The IBM System z10™ Enterprise Class (z10™ EC) server is designed to meet the challenges of today’s business world and to be the cornerstone of an evolutionary new model for effi cient IT delivery called the Dynamic Infrastructure®. This model helps reset the economics of IT and can dramati- cally improve operational effi ciency, security, and respon- siveness – to help keep a business competitive.
The z10 EC™, with its advanced combination of reliability, availability, serviceability, security, scalability, and virtual- ization, delivers the technology that can help defi ne this framework for the future. The z10 EC delivers improvements to performance, capacity, and memory which can help enterprises grow their existing business while providing a
The October 2008 announcements extend the z10 EC leadership with improved access to data and the network; tighter security with longer Personal Account Numbers for stronger protection of data; enhancements for improved performance when connecting to the network; increased
flexibility in defi ning your options to handle backup require- ments; and enhanced time accuracy to an external time source.
Any successful business needs to be able to deliver timely, integrated information to business leaders, support per- sonnel, and customers on a 24x7 basis. This means that access to data needs to be fast, secure, and dependable. Enhancements made to z/Architecture® and the FICON® interface architecture with the High Performance FICON for System z (zHPF) are optimized for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads. The FICON Express4 and FICON Express2 features support the native FICON proto- col and the zHPF protocol.
The System z10 was introduced with a new connectivity option for LANs – Open Systems
An IT system needs to be available and protected every day. The z10 EC offers availability enhancements which include faster service time for CF Duplexing, updates to Server Time Protocol (STP) for enhanced time accuracy to an External Time Source, and support for heterogeneous platforms in an enterprise to track to the same time source. Security enhancements to the Crypto Express2 feature deliver support for
The z10 EC has a new architectural approach for temporary offerings that have the potential to change the thinking about on demand capacity. The z10 EC can have one or more fl exible confi guration defi nitions that can be available to solve multiple temporary situations and multiple capacity confi gurations that can be active at once. This means that On/Off Capacity on Demand (CoD) can be active and up to seven other offerings can be active simultaneously. Tokens are available that can be purchased for On/Off CoD either before or after execution.
Updates to the z10 EC are designed to help improve IT today, outline a compelling case for the future running on System z, and lock in the z10 EC as the cornerstone in your Dynamic Infrastructure by delivering superior business and IT services with agility and speed.
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