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A company running an obsolete z890 two-way machine with what amounted to 0.88 processors (332 MIPS) planned a migration to a distributed system consisted of 36 distributed UNIX servers. The production workload consisted of applications, database, testing, development, security, and more. Five years later, the company was running the same in the 36-server multi-core (41x more cores than the z890) distributed environment only its four-year TCO went from $4.9 million to $17.9 million based on an IBM Eagle study. The lesson, the Eagle team notes: Cores drive platform costs in distributed systems…

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Businesses are changing the ways they connect with and interact with customers using mobile devices and social computing. Thousands of smart phones are accessing critical information in data centers around the world. Making sure data stays secure has never been more important than it is today.  We've seen examples just over the past few weeks where major businesses are losing mindshare because of their inability to keep their perimeters secure. However, at the same time, we're seeing examples of businesses and organizations using their data in unique new ways to deliver a richer, more personalized customer experience…

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IBM never claims that every workload is suitable for the zEnterprise. However, with the advent of hybrid computing, the low cost z114, and now the expected low cost version of the zEC12 later this year you could make a case for any workload that benefits from the reliability, security, and efficiency of the z is fair game…

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