IBM Business Partner L3C LLP focuses on three ways to help businesses across the UK increase profitability and reduce costs: consultancy, managed services and complementary IT resources. A key avenue for applying this model is its use of mainframe computing. When it needed to bring the robust reliability, security and affordability of the mainframe to its cloud customers, L3C deployed IBM System z servers running Linux to provide companies of any size — including small, midsized and very large enterprises — with scalable, cost-effective, high-performance cloud services. Read the case study here.