IBM introduced its new zEnterprise BC12 (zBC12) mainframe designed for the latest in analytics, cloud, and mobile computing. Starting at $75,000, IBM is making the advanced enterprise server accessible to organizations of all sizes. The new zBC12 provides clients with high levels of performance, flexibility and scale, a faster processor at 4.2 GHz, and two times the available memory over its predecessor, the z114. And, to enable clients to grow into their system, the zBC12 also offers a pay-as-you-grow approach.
When integrated with IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator, the zBC12 can perform business analytics workloads with response times up to nine times faster, 10 times better price performance, and 14% lower total cost of acquisition than the closest competitor. For cloud computing, the zBC12 can consolidate up to 40 virtual servers per core or up to 520 in a single footprint for as low as $1 per day, per virtual server. A single zBC12 can save clients up to 55% over x86 distributed environments.
To help clients that are rapidly expanding their businesses, especially in growth markets, IBM is delivering a new Linux-only based version of the zBC12, the Enterprise Linux Server (ELS). The ELS includes hardware, a z/VM Hypervisor and three years of maintenance. The system can run a portfolio of over 3,000 Linux applications, and clients can extend it with two new solutions, ELS for Analytics and Cloud-Ready for Linux on System z, as an on-ramp for analytics and cloud computing.
The full announcement is available here.IBM introduced its new zEnterprise BC12 (zBC12) mainframe designed for the latest in analytics, cloud, and mobile computing. Starting at $75,000, IBM is making the advanced enterprise server accessible to organizations of all sizes. The new zBC12 provides clients with high levels of performance, flexibility and scale, a faster processor at 4.2 GHz, and two times the available memory over its predecessor, the z114. And, to enable clients to grow into their system, the zBC12 also offers a pay-as-you-grow approach.
When integrated with IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator, the zBC12 can perform business analytics workloads with response times up to nine times faster, 10 times better price performance, and 14% lower total cost of acquisition than the closest competitor. For cloud computing, the zBC12 can consolidate up to 40 virtual servers per core or up to 520 in a single footprint for as low as $1 per day, per virtual server. A single zBC12 can save clients up to 55% over x86 distributed environments.
To help clients that are rapidly expanding their businesses, especially in growth markets, IBM is delivering a new Linux-only based version of the zBC12, the Enterprise Linux Server (ELS). The ELS includes hardware, a z/VM Hypervisor and three years of maintenance. The system can run a portfolio of over 3,000 Linux applications, and clients can extend it with two new solutions, ELS for Analytics and Cloud-Ready for Linux on System z, as an on-ramp for analytics and cloud computing.
The full announcement is available here.