In conjunction with its business partners, IBM will host a major launch event on the 25th September in Dubai that will gather CIOs and senior IT executives from a number of major enterprise organisations in the region and brief them on the new system that promises to provide nearly twice the capacity and available memory of its predecessor-the IBM eServer zSeries z990.
The announcement follows a recent Gartner report citing IBM as the number one server vendor in the world for the ninth consecutive quarter.
"The System z9 is the first of a new generation of mainframes whose role can be to centrally facilitate management security and systems resources across the entire corporate IT network. It delivers virtualization and collaborative capabilities on a level never before seen in the computer industry. A single System z9 is designed to optimize hardware, networking and software so that businesses can manage and secure workloads equivalent to hundreds of distributed servers in a fraction of the space," said Wael Abdoush, manager of systems and technology group, IBM Middle East and Pakistan. "This is the beginning of a new era - in which enterprise businesses in this region can gain control of information technology by managing it from the inside out."
Representing a three-year, $1.2-billion-development effort encompassing 5,000 IBM engineers, software developers, technology professionals and security experts from around the world - the System z9 was designed to be one of the most open, reliable and secure computing systems ever built for business. It is designed to:
• process one billion transactions per day, more than double the performance of its predecessor, the "T-Rex" zSeries z990 mainframe, at its launch. (1)
• enable businesses to safely transport encrypted data to partners, suppliers, and remote or archive sites -- helping to protecting data in the event of media loss or inadvertent compromise. This function is planned to be available by the end of 2005. (2)
• run five world-class operating systems including Linux and the mainframe's new flagship z/OS version 1.7, which can enable transport of data in a security-rich environment between multiple computing platforms and virtualization of hundreds of applications, including Java-based applications.
• process up to 6,000 secure online handshakes per second— approximately three times as many as before -- which may help businesses better serve e-commerce customers and process more sales quicker. (3)
• resist known security threats.
"The new security and encryption offerings in the System z9 are designed to provide an enterprise-wide solution to help companies secure their customers' data, both within company walls as well as when it leaves their direct control. Centralized key management helps simplify our customers' security solutions, and is designed to provide a long-term capability for protecting data. We are working closely with technology partners and a group of leading customers in the financial world to extend our security strategy to cover all aspects of our system environment, with a goal of providing the most comprehensive solutions in the industry," continued Abdoush.
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- United Arab Emirates: Thursday, September 22 - 2005 at 16:57
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IBM Middle East is set to unveil one of the most sophisticated computing systems ever, the IBM System z9 mainframe with security and virtualization capabilities that the company said can enable it to act as the hub in a new era of collaborative computing.
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(1) The z9109 is designed to provide up to 95% more total system capacity than the z990 Model D32, and has up to double the available memory. This is a comparison of the z9 109 54-wayt and the z990 D32 and is based on the LSPR mixed workload average. It is expected that 32 z9-109s in a cluster could achieve approximately 25 billion transactions per day. This is a theoretical calculation of 32 individual z9-109 servers (each configured with 32 engines) in a parallel sysplex. It is a projection based on measurements of a single z9-109 (configured with 32 engines) obtained in a controlled environment. The actual performance that any user will experience will vary depending upon considerations such as the amount of multiprogramming in the user's job stream, the I/O configuration, the storage configuration, and the workload processed. Therefore, no assurance can be given that an individual user will achieve throughput or performance equivalent to the numbers stated here.
(2). IBM intends to deliver this feature in 2005, as stated in z/OS 1.7 RFA.
(3) The SSL rate was achieved with a System z9 with four processors and two Crypto Express2 Cards (one feature, both configured as accelerators). When a System z9 with four CPs and both PCI-X adapters on a Crypto Express2 feature are configured as accelerators, the Crypto Express2 feature is designed to perform up to 6,000 SSL handshakes per second. . The SSL rate was achieved with a System z9 with four processors and two Crypto Express2 cards (one feature, both configured as accelerators), z/OS V1R7 with Cryptographic Support for z/OS V1R6/V1R7 Web deliverable, and ICSF FMID HCR7730. Since the performance enhancements are implemented in Licensed Internal Code, current Crypto Express2 features carried forward from z990 to System z9 can take advantage of increased SSL performance and the new configuration capability. These measurements are examples of the maximum transactions per second achieved in a laboratory environment with no other processing occurring and do not represent actual field measurements. Details are available upon request.
(4) The SSL rate was achieved with a System z9 with four processors and two Crypto Express2 Cards (one feature, both configured as accelerators). When a System z9 with four CPs and both PCI-X adapters on a Crypto Express2 feature are configured as accelerators, the Crypto Express2 feature is designed to perform up to 6,000 SSL handshakes per second.
(5)The z/VSE operating system can execute in 31-bit mode only. It does not implement z/Architecture, and specifically does not implement 64-bit mode capabilities. The z/VSE operating system is designed to exploit select features of IBM eServer zSeries hardware.
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