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Content

Virtualization pages 4-11 Automation pages 21-22
BCBS Minnesota (USA, Dec 2009) University of North Carolina (USA, Sep 2009)
Marist College (USA, val. Oct 2009) IBM IT Delivery (Aug 2009)
Shikoku (Japan, Oct 2009)
Reduced Cost pages 23-36
Transzap (USA, Sep 2009) Casa Bahia (Brazil, Mar 2010)
Colacem S.p.A. (Italy, Jan 2009) Baldor Electric Company(USA, Mar 2010)
Bank of Russia (Russia, Oct 2008) Atos Origin (UK, Dec 2009)
BRZ Deutschland (Germany, Oct 2008) Marsh (UK, Dec 2009)
Univar (USA, Mar 2008) Allianz (Australia, Nov 2009)
Home Depot (USA, Nov 2009)
Computacenter (UK, Nov 2009)
Energy Efficiency pages 12-14 National Business Center (Aug 2009)
Bank of New Zealand (Nea Zealand, Jan 2009) Ball State University (USA, Jun 2009)
Gruppo API (Italy, 2009) Salt River Project (USA, May 2009)
Dundee City Council (United Kingdom, Jun 2008) gkd-el (Germany, Jan 2009)
Nationwide Insurance (USA, Sep 2008)
Security and Resiliency pages 15-20 Winnebago Industries (USA, Mar 2008)
RENFE (Spain, Sep 2006)
EFiS AG (Germany, Dec 2009)
IBM FMS (USA, Oct 2009) Case studies for Linux® on IBM eServer™ zSeries pages 37-41
RIHMI-WDC (USA, Oct 2009) University of Arkansas (USA, Aug 2009)
Con-Way Freight (USA, Jun 2009) TORN (Poland, val. May 2009)
Peter Hahn (Germany, Mar 2009) King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (Thailand, Apr
Wessels+Müller AG (Germany, Sep 2008) 2008)
Illinois State University (USA, Mar 2008)


BCBS Minnesota
Reducing TCO with virtualized Linux on System z

Business Challenge: “From every perspective,
running applications under
The Microsoft® Windows® and Intel® processor-based server
Linux on System z makes sense
landscape at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (BCBSM) was
for our organization.
inflexible and costly to operate and maintain.
Performance, reliability,
Solution: disaster recovery, server
provisioning and cost efficiency
IBM helped BCBSM consolidate 140 servers to a single have all seen dramatic
IBM System z® with six Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) engines. Key improvements—helping BCBSM
applications now run in Linux® virtual servers, while IBM DB2® deliver better service and better
databases run on z/OS® on the same physical machine. value to its members across the
state.”
— Ted Mansk, Director of
Benefits: Infrastructure Engineering and
Significant TCO reduction over five years Databases at BCBSM
Virtualization cuts server provisioning times by 99 percent
Disaster recovery can be achieved 97 percent faster than before Solution Components
IBM System z9® Enterprise class
(z9® EC)
IBM System z10™ Enterprise
class (z10 EC™)


Shikoku Electric Power Company
Strengthening communications with IBM Lotus Notes® and Domino®

Business challenge:
Shikoku Electric, one of 10 electric utilities in Japan, needed to expand “Lotus Notes/Domino has
its internal communications system. The company hoped to improve deeply penetrated the entire
service levels to customers by improving knowledge sharing among company, and is now
employees, including information about daily business processes and indispensable for daily
emergency recovery procedures. business.”
— Shinji Nakauchi, System
Solution: Promotion Group Leader,
Shikoku Electric Power
Shikoku Electric expanded its existing Lotus Notes/Domino groupware
Company
implementation and deployed it on redundant IBM System z9 Business
Class servers. The IBM System z9 uses open-source Linux and
virtualization technology to enable multiple instances of Lotus Solution components:
Notes/Domino on one machine, reducing the number of servers required IBM System z9 Business
to support the expanded capabilities. Class server (z9 BC)

Benefits: IBM Lotus Notes

Extends the value of existing investments in IBM technology IBM Lotus Domino
Simplifies operations and systems management
Enables cost-efficient scalability through virtualization


Transzap boosts uptime with IBM System z
Transzap, Inc.

Business challenge:
Transzap offers its customers a comprehensive suite of financial
software tools. As a small business with tens of billions of dollars in “We intend to deliver a
client transactions flowing through their systems each year, Transzap 99.9% application uptime
needed an economical, reliable platform to provide clients with high guarantee to our customer
availability while enabling the capacity to accommodate growth within base, thanks to the
their software as a service business model. availability characteristics of
System z.”
Solution: — Peter Flanagan, CEO of
Transzap decided to consolidate on an IBM System z platform to Transzap, Inc.
provide the stability and scalability needed to accommodate triple
digit volume growth, enabling them to focus on the business of
software innovation. Transzap migrated to System z and virtualized Solution components:
its critical applications on Linux on System z, a platform that supports IBM System z
Transzap's dynamic Java™ and Oracle environments. Linux on System z
z/VM®
Benefits:
Helps Transzap to serve more than 69,000 users across
6,800 companies
Provides higher levels of uptime for their customers
Offers peace of mind through 24x7 world-class hardware support


Colacem S.p.A. - Case Study from Clabby Analytics
SAP on Linux on a Mainframe!
Business need
A big influencing factor for moving to SAP on Linux on a mainframe at “I can host my ware-
Colacem was the need to be more agile in acquiring and assimilating house, my business
new businesses into the Colacem fold. Colacem already had a huge applications, and my DB2
commitment to mainframe architecture (the company prefers centralized database all on the same
control of its information technology) – but had not yet standardized on machine. This gives me
an enterprise resource planning application. huge performance
Solution advantages”.
Colacem uses the latest, IBM System z10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC) - Mr. Andrea Coccia, CIO
architecture running z/VM as a host operating environment that controls Colacem S.p.A.
underlying Linux instances. SAP's enterprise suite of ERP applications
Colacem believes that
(accounting, financials, etc.) have been deployed to run-the-company deploying SAP on Linux on a
and its associated businesses. mainframe makes excellent
business sense.
Benefits:
SAP does indeed run extremely well on Linux on mainframe architecture
Colacem has realized distinct business advantages by using SAP to support its policies of
expansion through acquisition
Colacem is so pleased with its SAP/Linux/mainframe application environment that it plans
to implement a second phase to add new SAP applications to its application portfolio


Bank of Russia
Reintegrating payment processing for Russia’s national bank
Business challenge:
With a variety of local payment processing systems running on more “With IBM System z, instead of
than 200 distributed servers in 74 data centers across 11 time zones, buying an oversized server and
the Bank of Russia faced significant challenges in terms of operational growing into it over the years, we
efficiency, technical support and security. only need to pay for what we use.
As volumes increase, we can ask
Solution: IBM to activate more processors
within the mainframe to deal with
Working with IBM and EC-Leasing, the Bank consolidated the entire
infrastructure to just four IBM System z9 Enterprise Class (z9 EC) the demand”.
mainframes at two data centers; using a new software landscape - Mr. Mikhail Senatorov, Deputy
under z/OS and virtualized Linux servers under z/VM. Chairman, Bank of Russia

Solution components:
Benefits: IBM System z9 Enterprise Class
IBM z/OS
Cut payment processing costs by 95 percent, saving US $400 IBM z/VM
million Linux
Achieved further savings on licensing, maintenance and electricity IBM Global Mirror
IBM Metro Mirror
Reduced workload for technical staff by 85 percent
IBM Tivoli® OMEGAMON®
IBM WebSphere® MQSeries®


Marist College
Enabling 600 hosted virtual servers on IBM System z9

Business challenge
Marist College is a leading comprehensive liberal arts institution that has
“System z has been
gained a reputation as a trailblazer in virtualization and mainframe
wonderful. Fabulous. A
technologies. The college’s IT infrastructure supports a variety of functions,
crown jewel. I can’t say
including systems for administration, development, production and education.
enough superlatives about
Solution what it’s done for us.”
“z/VM is much easier to
Marist installed their first IBM eServer™ zSeries® 900 (z900) over six years manage from a technology
ago and has recently upgraded to an IBM System z9. The z9 mainframe point of view. It takes less
runs IBM z/VM which enables extremely high utilization of computing staff and provides more
resources with a reduced footprint. z/VM also enables high performance for useful tools,”
its hosted virtual servers, which include Linux. Storage in the z9 is being
transitioned to two IBM System Storage™ DS8100 disk storage systems. A. Harry Williams, director of
technology and systems,
Benefits Marist College
Enables extremely high utilization of computing resources
Simplifies maintenance and management of over 600 virtual servers
Increases utilization and capacity while reducing footprint


BRZ Deutschland …
Reduces data processing times by deploying IBM System z9
and IBM System Storage technology
Business need
To meet customer demands in the fast-paced construction industry and to "A maximum in flexibility,
operate as optimally as possible, BRZ needed a robust, powerful IT stability and availability is
platform. BRZ’s challenge was compounded by the fact that its existing
simply what our clients expect
IBM S/390® Multiprise® 2000 mainframe was running at capacity.
and is a require-ment for the
permanent improvement of
Solution
On a recommendation from IBM and IBM Premier Business Partner Fritz process flows. With the IBM
& Macziol GmbH, BRZ migrated to an IBM System z9 Business Class (z9 System z9 BC we can meet
BC) server running the IBM z/VSE™ V4 operating system. The System z9 these requirements."
technology offered the flexibility to run the z/VSE operating system while - Oliver Neureuther, director of
also allowing the company’s Linux applications to coexist. Leveraging the product management systems,
z/VSE environment with the System z9 BC server acting as the data hub. BRZ Deutschland GmbH

Benefits
Provides the flexibility to run the z/VSE operating system in parallel
with Linux applications
Accelerates processing run times for batch jobs
Reduces run times for 200,000 payroll stubs by 50 percent over the
company’s previous system


Univar USA
Responding to rapid growth in a mainframe environment
Business challenge
Univar USA is the leading industrial chemical distributor in the United
States, providing chemical products and distribution services. After
acquiring a competitor and taking on additional workloads from other “The z9 was the perfect
geographies, Univar USA faced an immediate need to upgrade its IT solution for what we
infrastructure to handle the increased data processing requirements. needed. No matter what
the business does in the
Solution future, we have a footprint
that we can grow in.”
The company turned to IBM Premier Business Partner Sirius Computer
Solutions for help in developing and implementing a new hardware
solution. Univar USA replaced their existing IBM eServer zSeries 890
— Dean Schultz, manager of
(z890) mainframe with an IBM System z9 Enterprise Class server. The
technical services, Univar
solution allows the company to leverage specialty engines such as USA
Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) to provide additional processing
capabilities.

Benefits
Enables a multi-OS mainframe environment
Facilitates business continuity efforts
Provides scalability options to accommodate future growth


Bank of New Zealand …
Reduces Carbon Footprint with Red Hat on the Mainframe
Business need
Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) was close to reaching capacity in its datacenter and
needed a new solution that could maximize space and resources while keeping costs
down. With a heavy carbon-neutral focus as a core part of its corporate values, BNZ “Deploying IBM mainframes
looked for ways to green its IT architecture and carve out costs.
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Solution to address our carbon footprint
In mid 2007, BNZ began overhauling its mission-critical front-end IT environment, and cost savings concerns was
including its Internet banking and bank teller functions, and its middleware layer a very big deal, especially at
providing connectivity through to its core back-end data. It migrated its systems to Red the senior management level.”
Hat Enterprise Linux 5 running under z/VM on the mainframe. Today, BNZ utilizes both
z10™ and z9 systems, exclusively running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, to power the - Lyle Johnston,
bank’s customer-facing banking systems, including Internet banking and teller infrastructure architect at BNZ
platforms.

Benefits:
Recovered 30 percent of datacenter floor space
33 percent reduction in heat output and a 39 percent reduction in carbon dioxide
emissions for its front-end systems
Reduced power consumption by 38 percent
20 percent return on investment (ROI) over the life of the platform
The new virtualized platform has also boosted the speed and simplicity of new
deployments.

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Gruppo API
Consolidates its distributed server landscape to gain flexibility and savings with IBM System z
Greater capacity enables growing companies to achieve their potential

Business challenge:
A rapidly expanding distributed UNIX® landscape was proving
increasingly complex for Gruppo API to manage. As the company
anticipated further growth, it recognized the need to increase flexibility “The new System z10 is
while keeping a sharp eye on costs and energy consumption. much more powerful than
our UNIX servers. This
Solution: will allow us to avoid the
Implemented an IBM System z10 mainframe with seven Integrated upgrades to processor
Facility for Linux (IFL) processors, two CPs and one zIIP engine. capacity that trigger
Installed IBM System Storage DS8300 to deliver high-performance additional
storage. licensing costs.”
— Gaetano Scebba, Chief
Benefits: Technology Officer, Gruppo API
Simplified infrastructure management: processing time for SAP BI
reduced by 35 percent compared to the distributed server landscape
Quick, pain-free migration: 1,200 user mail boxes moved to Solution components:
System z in just two weeks, without any interruption to end users IBM System z10
Green benefits: energy consumption cut by 35 percent, floor-space IBM System Storage
requirements reduced by 15 percent, and cooling by 35 percent. DS8300
IBM InfoSphere®

Source: Transworld Data Case Study, 2009

Dundee City Council …
Builds an energy-efficient infrastructure with IBM
Business need
To meet its environmental objectives, reduce operational costs and save “The z9 mainframes give
data centre space, the IT department at Dundee City Council wanted to us a significant increase in
revolutionize its infrastructure through the use of server virtualization and processing power and
thin-client architectures. scalability, while reducing
the amount of electricity
Solution and air conditioning we
IBM helped Dundee consolidate more than 50 application servers to a pair require. Instead of 50
of energy-efficient IBM System z9 Business Class mainframes with IBM under-utilized boxes, all
System Storage DS6800 storage, and introduced thin-client devices using with their own power
Windows terminal services software running on IBM BladeCenter® server supplies and air
farms. conditioning requirements,
we have two physical
Benefits machines hosting 50
Proven ability to run hundreds of virtual servers side-by-side in a single virtual servers – making
physical footprint optimal use of our
IBM System z platform is ideally positioned as a solution to shrinking resources.”
space, power and air conditioning capacity in the typical data centre.
System z9 mainframes, thin-client devices and BladeCenter servers are - Tim Simpson, IT Support
Manager, Dundee City
designed to increase Dundee’s computing resources while decreasing Council
electricity and air-conditioning requirements – reducing operational costs
and carbon footprint.


EFiS Financial Solutions...
Resolves data center Pain Points and further optimizes the
IT infrastructure using the IBM Enterprise Linux Server
Business need “We chose an IBM Enterprise Linux
The driving business challenge at EFiS was the requirement to reduce cost, risk Server with a System z Business Class
and resources while increasing the efficiency and ecology at the same time. configuration, running SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server for System z from
Security requirements, scalability and the need to process huge amounts of
Novell for the high reliability, advanced
transactions while saving cost for software licenses furthermore lead to the security, extreme scalability and high
decision to move from various hardware platforms (including x86, IBM eServer compute power this solution offers,"
pSeries®, SPARC/Solaris and HP) to System z running Linux. said Ernst Bauer, Chief Operating Officer
at EFiS Financial Solutions AG.

Solution "Another crucial factor for the
Migrating various servers from different vendors to one IBM System z9 BC (Linux decision to move to this combined
only machine), EFiS managed to optimize their data center back in 2008. The fact solution was the energy and power
savings this offering from IBM and Novell
that fewer server had to be managed, lead to an easier control and operation of the could provide us.
existing environment. With the update of the current production z9 to a z10 based
Enterprise Linux Server, EFiS continuous the optimization of their IT-infrastructure Together with our implementation partner
to the constantly changing business requirements. PROFI Engineering Systems AG we were
able to integrate Green IT as an important
part of our strategy.
Benefits:
The Continuous optimization of the IT-Infrastructure lead to fewer servers to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for
System z on an IBM Enterprise Linux
manage – and to ease the control and operation Server Business Class provides us
Reduced cost, risk and resources with optimal resource utilization, while
addressing our critical energy and
Recovered data center floor space power costs."
Strengthened ability to scale with business growth

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IBM Field Management Systems (FMS)
IBM Cognos® 8 BI for Linux on System z: 30,000 users in production in
just four months

Business need
Provide the organization’s sales force with secure, centralized, efficient "This IBM Cognos system is
Web-based access to critical sales information. a very powerful tool that
gives quick and easy
business information access
Solution to a large number of users.
The IBM Cognos® 8 BI for Linux solution on System z enables a streamlined We will eventually have
approximately 40,000
approach for the IBM sales force of 30,000+ to access critical business
people using it, as we
information from a single Web portal, when and where they need it. continue down the path of
adoption and
implementation."
Benefits
A simplified user experience with enhanced capability, enabling greater - John Palermo, Director
productivity; greater value to the business and to the IT group; a foundation Global Incentives Business
platform for the standardization of BI across IBM Transformation, IBM FMS


RIHMI-WDC (World Data Center)
IBM solutions enable digitization and high availability “Our new System z9 server
and upgraded storage
Business challenge: solution have enabled us to
ensure continued availability
The Russian Hydrometeorological Research Institute – World Data and reliability of our data
Center receives more than 200 GB of new data each day and maintains archive for years to come.”
over 1.5 petabytes of weather monitoring data. They also store archives
on a variety of media, including paper. The organization needed a new — Vladislav Shaymardanov,
mainframe and storage solution that would enable them to collect, World Data Center
process, store and share all information digitally.
Solution: IBM System z9 with Integrated
World Data Center implemented an IBM System z9 server running IBM Facility for Linux
z/VM and Linux. It features Integrated Facility for Linux and is connected IBM z/VM 5.3 and 5.4
to multiple IBM System Storage components. IBM Tivoli Storage IBM System Storage DS8300
Manager, IBM Content Manager OnDemand and IBM DB2 support data
IBM System Storage 3500 Tape
management. Custom applications on the z9 server copy digital content
Libraries
from original documents.
IBM System Storage Tape Drives
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Benefits:
Extended Edition 5.4
Consolidates different media types and simplifies data access IBM Content Manager
Manages risk by enabling backward compatibility with legacy programs OnDemand for Multi-platforms
IBM DB2 9 and DB2 Express-C 9
Accommodates a repository that grows by 200 GB each day


Con-Way Freight …
Delivers quicker and slicker across the US with Web services and SOA
based on IBM System z Business-critical applications re-delivered
Business challenge: “Con-Way’s use of the System z
Customer satisfaction is key for Con-Way Freight, which means proved that the same
providing on-line booking, payment and tracking among other services. capabilities that made the
Core business applications and databases had not been designed for System z its core production
the internet world and were perceived as hard to develop and refresh. workhorse make it ideal for
SOA.”
Solution: —Alan Radding,
Independent Assessment
Native handling of XML, standard messaging protocols and CICS® on
IBM System z10 allow existing business logic to be rapidly re-used as Solution components:
Web services components to create new customer-focused
IBM System z10, IBM z/OS
applications. (multiple Linux LPARs), IBM
CICS, IBM DB2, IBM Rational®
Benefits: Application Developer, IBM
WebSphere“ Application
Pickup, delivery, tracking, payment and more are available online Server, IBM WebSphere
based on secure, reliable data managed by IBM System z Everyplace
Existing application and data investments can be re-used at low
cost
More than 40 re-usable components available for fast
development
Source: Alan Radding, Independent Assessment, 2009


Peter Hahn
IBM Systems enrich performance, availability and flexibility

Business challenge:
Peter Hahn, a European clothier, was growing rapidly and needed to
improve data availability. With call centers operating 24/7, they could not “The change was like switching to
accommodate any downtime. They also faced challenges with database
a Porsche without having to
performance and downtime required for backups.
modify our applications for this
Solution: purpose.”
– Holger Schönenmann, department
With the help of IBM and IBM Premier Business Partner COMPAREX, Peter
manager of the computer center at
Hahn upgraded their legacy IBM zSeries mainframe to IBM System z9. Peter Hahn
Peter Hahn then migrated their IBM DB2 database with IBM z/VSE
applications to a Linux environment. To enable automated backups, they
installed IBM System Storage DS8100, connected to the company network
by IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller. IBM System z9 with
Integrated Facility for Linux

Benefits: IBM System Storage DS8100
IBM SAN Volume Controller
Improves availability and performance of the IT environment
IBM DB2
Provides flexibility and capacity for the DB2 database
Reduces risk by enabling automated backups with zero downtime


Wessels+Müller AG …
Improves application response times and cuts operating costs with an
IBM System z mainframe
Business challenge:
Wessels+Müller found that the IBM eServer zSeries 890 (z890)
mainframe was unable to keep pace with the company’s growing “This System z main-frame
processing demands. With the system operating at 80 percent just to has reaffirmed our confidence
handle day-to-day operations, the business was concerned about peak in IBM’s hardware. Not only
processing periods when high volumes of data need to be analyzed. does the server offer more
power but more control over
the environment as well.”
Solution:
Wessels+Müller AG
Working with IBM Business Partner Becom, Wessels+Müller migrated its
business systems to an IBM System z9 Business Class mainframe. The
IBM hardware, leveraging the IBM z/VSE operating platform, supports
multiple Linux virtual machines that host the client’s online parts ordering Solution components:
and information management systems as well as an IBM DB2 data IBM System z9 Business
server containing part information. Class mainframe
IBM DB2 data server
Benefits:
Improved application speeds and reduced response times — even
during peak processing periods
Increased staff productivity with a more responsive environment
Reduced operating costs by simplifying the infrastructure
Highest ever availability of applications


University of North Carolina
Enabling health informatics
"This is a great example of
Business Challenge: how information management
The University of North Carolina (UNC) Health Care System needed to and technology can actually
create a consolidated view of patient information that could better serve drive important medical
the diverse needs of varied user groups. research."

Solution: - Dr. Donald Spencer, associate
director of medical informatics,
IBM worked with UNC to create a robust, closely governed data UNC Health Care System
warehouse solution that unifies multiple data stores, making it possible
to quickly and easily access data and transform it into useful Solution components:
information. Software
• IBM DB2
Benefits: • IBM InfoSphere DataStage®
Delivers complex search results spanning multiple information • IBM InfoSphere Information Server
repositories in minutes instead of the weeks or even months required • IBM WebSphere Application Server
• IBM WebSphere Portal
for manual searches • IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory
Provides a single view of data across the organization • IBM z/OS
Breaks down information silos to enable new lines of inquiry • Linux on System z
Server
Enables governance of user groups, storage and access to optimize • IBM System z10
user benefits and ROI Services
Establishes procedures to disseminate information throughout the • IBM Global Business Services:
Strategy and Change
organization


IBM IT Delivery
Lowering energy costs by optimizing server utilization
Business challenge:
As part of the IBM Project Big Green, IBM consolidated roughly 3,900 “By using IBM Service
servers across the business to approximately 30 IBM System z Management solutions to
mainframes. This move not only reduces management burdens for the increase system utilization, we
associated systems but also yields improved server efficiency and can avoid investing in and
higher utilization levels. As part of this effort, IBM wanted to apply the powering unneeded hardware.
latest monitoring technology to optimize performance, availability and This contributes to greater
server utilization. energy efficiency and lower
energy costs.”
Solution: — Chris Young, Linux on System
Using IBM Service Management solutions, IBM IT Delivery staff can z Specialist, IT Delivery, IBM
proactively identify and respond to issues in and utilization of its System
z environment and related applications. By doing so, administrators can
resolve problems before they impact users and deliver a higher quality of
service using fewer people. By helping improve system utilization, the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console®
solution also helps staff avoid investing in and powering unneeded IBM Tivoli Monitoring
hardware.
IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE on
z/VM and Linux
Benefits:
Reduced operational costs through improved staff efficiency IBM System z
Increased system utilization to avoid investment in and powering
unneeded hardware
Decreased service disruptions through increased visibility


Casas Bahia
Building a high-performance online store
“The performance of the
Business challenge:
System z servers is excellent,
Casas Bahia wanted to gain competitive advantage and reach new delivering a very fast and
customers across Brazil by implementing a new online store. smooth shopping experience
for online customers.”
Solution: — Frederico Wanderley, CIO,
Casas Bahia.
Working with IBM Brazil, Casas Bahia built a highly scalable, secure
and available online store, based on IBM System z10 Enterprise Class
servers running z/OS and Linux on z/VM. Solution components:
Hardware
IBM System z10 Enterprise
Benefits: Class
Software
The online store receives more than 250,000 customer visits per day,
and serves as a major new revenue stream IBM DB2 for z/OS
IBM WebSphere Application
The IBM solution can handle up to 12,000 concurrent connections, Server for z/OS
ensuring a smooth shopping experience IBM Tivoli Access Manager
for e-business
The System z infrastructure can dynamically adapt to changing
IBM z/OS
patterns of demand, ensuring optimal performance at all times.
IBM z/VM
SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server


Baldor Electric Company
Consolidation on IBM System z10 cuts complexity and cost
Business challenge:
When Baldor Electric acquired its major competitor, Reliance Dodge, it also “We have freed up an area of
acquired hundreds of separate servers that cost money, time and effort to support about 3,000 sq. ft., which is now
and maintain. Baldor Electric aimed to reduce IT costs, which meant reducing being turned into office space. This
complexity, consolidating systems and simplifying the software landscape. The has also dramatically reduced the
company wished to integrate the two organizations as rapidly and cost-effectively as power and cooling requirements of
possible. our infrastructure—cutting
electricity costs by 60 percent.”
Solution:
— Mark Shackelford,
Baldor consolidated to SAP Business Suite, hosted on 70 virtual machines running
Director of IT Services
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on the IBM System z10 Enterprise Class platform.
Where previously Reliance Dodge relied on overnight batch processes to
synchronize data on different servers, the SAP applications on z10 provide an Solution components:
always-up-to-date picture of current business. Baldor also migrated data from
IBM System z10 Enterprise Class
separate storage systems to the IBM System Storage DS8100 platform.
IBM System Storage DS8100
IBM DB2
Benefits: IBM z/OS
IBM z/VM
Cut IT costs by 50 percent as a proportion of sales, while maintaining ultra-high
SAP Business Suite
availability
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Eliminated more than 200 stand-alone servers
Cut electricity costs by 60 percent and floor-space requirements by 50 percent


National Business Center Slashes Costs by Creating Strategic
Enterprise Cloud Platform on IBM System z
Efficient datacenters prove a competitive advantage
“System z is our enterprise
server of choice due to clear
Business challenge: advantages in cost-of-acquisition
Despite being part of the Department of the Interior, the National and operation – these savings
Business Center (NBC) does not receive governmental funding and are vitally important to us as they
relies on competitive bids to operate. It needed to be able to offer the ensure NBC remains competitive
best service while keeping a sharp eye on costs to succeed. in bidding situations.”
— Doug Bourgeois, Director, National
Solution: Business Center

Implemented IBM System z mainframes running Linux and IBM Solution components:
WebSphere SOA. A range of IBM Tivoli products help manage
IBM System z, WebSphere
mainframe virtualization, provisioning and balancing workload. SOA, Linux and IBM Tivoli
management products
Benefits:
System z operates at 80-100 percent utilization compared to the
10-20 percent average of distributed servers, maximising ROI
Offers customers solid and secure service, ensuring maximum
satisfaction
Takes advantage of virtualization capabilities to optimize resource
provisioning and workload balancing

Source: Clabby Analytics, August 2009

Marsh
Achieves cost-effective Web-enablement of legacy applications with IBM
Rational HATS and an IBM Enterprise Linux Server solution

Business need:
Marsh wanted to make it easier for employees to use its green-screen Eurosys "IBM z/VM enables us to
back-office processing application by creating an intuitive Web-based user set up new test and
interface. development partitions
Solution: in a matter of minutes…
The IT team decided to deploy IBM Rational HATS, and looked for the most cost- This flexibility gives the
effective platform to run the new solution. Following a detailed cost-benefit Enterprise Linux Server
analysis, the team decided to run the solution on the IBM Enterprise Linux Server a major advantage over
(ELS) platform, creating Red Hat Enterprise Linux partitions under IBM z/VM and a traditional distributed
activating an IBM Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) engine in Marsh’s existing infrastructure, where
IBM System z9 Business Class mainframe. you would need to
purchase a new physical
Benefits: server for each new
Web-enablement with Rational HATS reduces training costs and enables more environment."
business users to access the Eurosys application. Rational HATS gives Marsh - Tim Bennett, Project
the ability to easily enhance this application and integrate it with new solutions. Manager, Marsh
Even though the Linux environment is relatively small, an IBM ELS solution is
more cost-effective than comparable ten-core x86-based architectures. IBM
z/VM virtualisation can create new Linux test and development partitions in
minutes.


IBM System z provides capacity for growth

Allianz Achieves a Seamless Migration from 60 Servers to a Single
IBM System z10 in just 48 hours
System z creates a more scalable, environmentally friendly environment
Business challenge:
Tremendous growth, particularly in the use of its web-facing “IBM System z10 has really
applications, led Allianz to seek greater capacity. The company needed ticked all the boxes. It reduced
a solution that was scalable and robust, implemented with minimal the dependency on a data
disruption to customers. centre and complexity from
over 60 servers down to one
Solution: box. It enabled us to put a lot
more robustness around the
Migrated critical applications to an IBM System z10 server running server in terms of DRP and
zLinux, eliminating the need for 60 Wintel boxes in the process. scalability, and was
environmentally friendly as
Benefits: well.”
Migrated in the space of one weekend with almost no impact on — Steven Coles, CIO, Allianz
customers
Reduced complexity of the server environment, allowing Allianz to Solution components:
scale easily according to growth IBM System z10
Consolidation to z10 cut power usage by 90 percent and slashed
datacenter costs, paying for the investment within one year

Source: ‘Allianz consolidates 60 servers to 1 mainframe in 48 hours’ Trevor Clarke, Computerworld
Australia, November 2009


Home Depot
Moves towards continuous availability with IBM System z
Business need:
Improve the quality of service and support to The Home Depot’s store associates
and customers. Provide continuous availability of SAP for Retail applications across “Continous availability
five time zones. Ensure that all SAP systems can be fully recovered within 48 hours and manageability are the
in case of disaster. Create an infrastructure capable of processing more than four design principles of our IT
million line items per hour in SAP for Retail applications. Reduce the cost of the IT architecture. We’re proud
infrastructure supporting the SAP applications. of our ability to failover
Solution: without data loss in a very
Four IBM System z9 EC and one z10 EC servers deployed at two data centers, with short period of time. The
failover capability and EMC storage mirrored asynchronously. The Home Depot runs improved availability and
72 IBM DB2 for z/OS version 8 databases for their SAP applications, some of them disaster recovery
in active-active data-sharing mode. IBM AIX® 5.3 on IBM Power Systems™ servers; capabilities delivered by
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 and z/VM 5.3 on IFL processors in the running the SAP
System z environment. applications on Linux for
System z provide an extra
Benefits: layer of insurance against
System z provides continuous availability for DB2 databases and has proven
potentially damaging and
capable of processing five million line items per hour in SAP for Retail applications –
expensive outages.”
providing significant capacity for growth. Power Systems architecture provides high
levels of performance and reliability for production SAP application servers. Fast - Clifford W. Gum; SAP
provisioning of servers with z/VM eliminates the need to deploy and configure new Technical Architect, The
hardware. Hardware data compression on System z reduces storage needs by 50 Home Depot
percent.
ibm.com/systems/z/testimonials/homedepot.html

Computacenter
Helps clients cut costs with the Enterprise Linux Server offering from IBM
Business need:
With many of its clients keen to move their business-critical systems onto
Linux, Computacenter wanted to find a way to deliver world-class availability "The IBM ELS has the
and security for Linux environments at a competitive price-point. potential to provide the
best of both worlds for our
Solution: clients – combining the
traditional reliability,
IBM helped Computacenter deploy an IBM Enterprise Linux Server (ELS) at availability and
its Hatfield Solution Centre, enabling the company to run proofs-of-concept serviceability of System z
demonstrating the superiority of Linux on the mainframe over traditional with the openness and
distributed server architectures. flexibility of Linux."
- Paul Casey, Datacentre
Benefits: Platforms Practice Leader,
Computacenter
The ELS can host thousands of virtual Linux environments within a single
physical footprint – improving energy efficiency by up to 90 percent and
supporting Green IT objectives. Powerful IBM Integrated Facility for Linux
(IFL) processors reduce the cost of per-processor licensed software (such as
Oracle) by up to 97 percent. IBM z/VM enables new Linux environments to
be provisioned in minutes with no need to procure new hardware, increasing
enterprise agility.


Ball State University
To cut costs and improve organizational efficiency with IBM ECM

Business need:
Provide University faculty and staff with better access to information to help
improve productivity and optimize organizational performance

Solution: "With IBM ECM all of a
An enterprise content management solution within a service oriented sudden information is
architecture that facilitates intelligent aggregation and delivery of content available—as it’s needed
regardless of where it is stored and where it’s needed."
Charles Tuite, Lead
Benefits: Enterprise Content
Expected to reduce production printing costs by 50%; significant time Management Architect, Ball
savings that enables staff to spend more time on student outreach and State University
organizational growth; innovative learning opportunities that provide
students with a competitive advantage in the job market


Salt River Project
Migrates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM Mainframes for Flexibility
and Performance

Business need:
Searched for a replacement for proprietary software for its IBM mainframe
servers that could provide greater flexibility, manageability, and utilization "Since we were already
opportunities. Migration Path: HP–UX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux leaning toward Red Hat in
our distributed environment,
Solution: choosing Red Hat on the
SRP decided it would prefer to use one reliable Linux distribution in both mainframe coincided
its mainframe and distributed environments. perfectly with our desire to
have one corporate
standard for Linux."
Benefits:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z mainframe servers has - Kevin Masaryk, Senior
provided SRP with a very stable and predictable solution that can be Linux/UNIX Administrator at
easily managed via Red Hat Network Satellite. SRP


gkd-el …
boosts SAP system throughput by 270 per cent and cuts costs by 30 per
cent by migrating SAP solutions to IBM System z10 Enterprise Class
Business need
Coping with rapid workload growth while maintaining guaranteed response times “By migrating to z10 and
according to SLAs conducting associated
Ensuring continuous availability of key systems streamlining work, we were
Decreasing costs able to reduce our monthly
Provisioning of SAP application servers within minutes
Complying to highest security standards
operational costs for the
mainframe environment by
Solution 30 percent. In this way,
gkd-el implemented their SAP landscape on Linux for System z and benefits from urgently needed capital
IBM z/OS and IBM z/VM virtualization technologies. became available for other
IBM System z10 Enterprise Class with IBM System z necessary investments.”
Integrated Information Processor (zIIP)
IBM System z Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) processor — Willi Lohmann, CEO of gkd-el.
IBM System Storage DS8100 for data storage
Benefits: IBM System z10 Enterprise
End-user satisfaction has increased, thanks to reduction in average SAP dialog Class
response times from 570ms to 190ms. IBM System Storage DS8100
Significant reduction in downtime during SAP release upgrade cycles. IBM z/OS 1.8
Total cost of ownership has been reduced by 30 per cent with the help of zIIP IBM z/VM 5.3
and IFL technology. IBM DB2 for z/OS V8
System z and System Storage technologies help gkd-el to maintain a flexible yet IBM DB2 Connect™8.1
easy-to-manage infrastructure, provision new Linux servers within minutes, and
balance workload efficiently.

Using virtualization as
a foundation for
innovation

Business need
Faced with the need to build a new, multimillion-dollar data
center to cope with server proliferation and seeking to streamline
application development and daily operations overall,
Nationwide Insurance instead made a strategic decision to move
to a flexible, virtualized IT environment.
Solution
Nationwide deployed two IBM System z mainframes running
Linux. The solution is a cornerstone of Nationwide's strategy of
moving all new development to virtualization and J2EE as a
means of "future-proofing" its IT environment.
“Nationwide’s Linux on System z project is
Benefits currently estimated to save $16 million
Anticipated cost savings of US $15 million over three years dollars over the next three years, not
including floor space. We also were able to
Enables server utilization of 85-90 percent provide a reduction in server cost of more
Reduces environmental costs by 80 percent than 50 percent to our customers. The Linux
Lowers Web hosting costs by 50 percent on System z system saved significant data
Leverages investments by using development/testing center floor space and power consumption.”
hardware for business continuity Steve Womer, Senior IT Architect
Simplifies and speeds server provisioning, enabling
developers to try out new ideas quickly

Winnebago Industries
Slashes e-mail costs and administration time with solution from Bynari,
IBM and Linux
Challenge: "The IBM partnership is
Winnebago Industries, Inc., one of the leading manufacturers of recreational vehicles in the
absolutely paramount to
United States, wanted to replace its previous e-mail system with a Linux operating system- our business. It has helped
based solution that would provide stability and support essential functionality, such as us tremendously with
calendar-sharing. Winnebago Industries chose a solution from Bynari, Inc., an IBM marketing and sales and
Advanced Business Partner that participates in IBM Partnerworld® Industry Networks. provided a level of
Winnebago Industries chose Bynari because of its dependability, security features, low credibility that we simply
overhead and ease of administration.
don't have as a small
Solution: company."
Winnebago Industries deployed Bynari’s Insight Server on the Linux operating system
running on the company’s existing IBM System z mainframe. Insight Server is a Linux - Hyun Kim, president, Bynari,
operating system-based e-mail solution that runs on all IBM platforms and can handle Inc.
thousands of users. It includes anti-spam and anti-virus protection, backup and recovery
software and a complete statistics tool to monitor performance. Solution components:
Insight Server Enterprise
Edition 4.2
Benefits: IBM System z9 Business
By using Bynari’s e-mail solution running on the IBM and Linux platforms, Winnebago Class
Industries: IBM SUSE Linux
Enterprise
Slashed e-mail serving costs by 80 percent Server 10 operating
Reduced e-mail management time by 50 percent system
Enjoyed nearly 100 percent email availability


Atos Origin
Builds a cost-effective hosting solution on the IBM Enterprise Linux
Server platform
Challenge:
To introduce new applications for major clients in the insurance and rail
transport industries, Atos Origin needed be able to support large numbers “We have been using
of users and high transaction volumes. The company required a high- IFL processors for
performance infrastructure that could offer 24x7 availability. several years now, and
Solution: in our opinion, System
Atos Origin decided to implement the new applications in Linux z has proved itself as
environments running under z/VM on an IBM Enterprise Linux Server an ideal enterprise
(ELS). The ELS is an IBM System z10 Business Class server which uses Linux platform”
Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) engines to deliver excellent price- - Colin Clews,
performance. Technologies Manager,
Atos Origin
Benefits:
The z10 IFLs in the ELS deliver up to ••40 percent more capacity at a 50
percent lower price than the previous generation of hardware – a price-
performance improvement of up to 65 percent
Running multiple Linux ••environments on a single ELS can potentially
reduce TCO by up to 80 percent, compared to a traditional distributed x86
environment
IBM Capacity Backup Upgrade ••enables full, rapid disaster recovery while
keeping operational costs low


RENFE …
Gets on track with Linux and WebSphere Portal on IBM System z

Business need:
With 18 different business units, each with its own intranet solution in
distributed environment, RENFE had difficulty in presenting information
"As we migrate services
consistently; IT administration costs were high, and the architecture had
to Linux on the IBM
limited scalability
System z platform, we
Solution: anticipate that we will
require fewer people to
Working with IBM Global Services, RENFE deployed IBM WebSphere Portal manage them, and our
running under SUSE Linux Enterprise server on the IBM System z platform, to long-term costs can be
create a single, consistent source of corporate information reduced."
Benefits: - Carlos Varela, Director
of IT Systems, Renfe
Fast access to information on a unified platform Operadora
Reduced operational costs through IT consolidation
Ability to create new virtualized servers rapidly and easily, without the
expense and delay of procuring new hardware


Case studies for Linux on IBM eServer zSeries


University of Arkansas … "The collaboration between
Creates new learning with SAP and IBM the University of Arkansas,
local businesses, SAP and
IBM demonstrates our
Business need:
Providing the opportunity to learn real-world business skills in the commitment to providing
academic environment presents a significant challenge for higher future generations with
education institutions. Ensuring students gain access to commercial- mutually beneficial
scale databases, enterprise software and high-performance teaching, research and
infrastructure can strain the resources of even the most progressive learning experiences."
institutions. - David Douglas, Director of
Solution: Enterprise Systems,
The University of Arkansas, supported by local businesses, and by SAP University of Arkansas
and IBM, has implemented a complete SAP NetWeaver Business
Warehouse application landscape on an IBM eServer zSeries 900 server Solution components:
running Linux. Businesses have contributed copies of anonymized Industry: Education
commercial databases, which run on IBM DB2 for z/OS, to provide a Applications: SAP ERP 6.0
real-world education environment available for Arkansas students and applications, SAP
thousands of guest students from other institutions. NetWeaver® Business
Warehouse 7.0, SAP
Benefits: NetWeaver Portal 3.5
Students in multiple schools such as computer science, computing, Hardware: IBM eServer
finance and accountancy have access to a world-class enterprise-scale zSeries 900
server, complete with commercial data and the latest software and Software: IBM z/OS 1.8,
applications. Free licenses for the entire SAP application suite for the IBM z/VM 5.3, SUSE Linux
z900 and IBM software components allow students to learn the latest Enterprise Server, IBM DB2
techniques on the most current software, gaining skills on IBM System z v9.1, IBM CICS, IBM
that will be valued by their future employers. Rational Developer for
System z, IBM FlashCopy®.


TORN
Enables On Demand Business with Linux on IBM System z

Business need:
Replace a mixed farm of physical servers, create a simpler, more flexible and
more scalable infrastructure; increase the availability of systems while driving
down costs "The new IBM System z
solution gives us great
flexibility in meeting our
clients’ changing
Solution: requirements."
Implemented an IBM eServer zSeries 890 server, running Linux under z/VM;
migrated core portal creation system to Linux; now running customer systems - Tomasz Dec, CIO,
TORN Sp. z o.o.
as virtual servers on the z890

Benefits:
Fast creation of new servers, thanks to virtualization; easier management,
single point of control; ability to scale up or down according to changing client
requirements, offering greater value for money


King Mongkut’s University
Students experience the power of Virtualization on System z
Business challenge:
Create Linux skilled resource and introduce SOA and Web Services
courses into the curriculum. To do this, School of Information Technology
(SIT), KMUTT created a Linux virtual server for each student to allow
them the ability to develop practical skills on Linux and to initiate feasibility “We believe that
studies and research projects in areas such as SOA and Web services, Virtualization is the
software architect, and many other applications. future of the server
infrastructure. The
Solution: System z provides us the
School of Information Technology (SIT), KMUTT deployed the IBM flexibility to manage the
zSeries 890 (z890) running Linux for zSeries with IBM TotalStorage® computing infrastructure
DS6800 680 GB, LTO and SAN Switch consolidating its IT infrastructure for our training courses.”
to one physical server. School of Information Technology (SIT), KMUTT is
- Prasert Kanthamanon,
now part of the IBM Academic Initiative Program Ph.D., Senior Associate
Dean of Administrative
Benefits: Affairs, School of
A “Virtual IT Playground” for hundreds of SIT students at the same time Information Technology,
Reduced maintenance and administration costs KMUTT
Lower electricity and air-conditioning expenses
Smaller footprint in the server room


Illinois State University
Building new enterprise computing skills

Business challenge:
Introducing a new enterprise computing systems degree concentration at “Using the z890 will also
Illinois State University depended on access to real-world mainframe offer students new
capacity. Existing systems were not capable of handling the extra workload, opportunities to work in
so students could not experiment in a real large-scale integrated teams on virtual projects
programming environment. and lab assignments, and
Solution: build skills on virtualization,
IBM provided a z890 on long-term loan to the Illinois State University College enterprise-class Linux and
of Applied Science and Technology. the full mainframe
architecture.”
Benefits: - Chu Jong, Assistant
Ability to train students in real-world enterprise-class programming Professor at the College of
environment Applied Science and
Technology, Illinois State
Addresses need for skilled personnel in enterprise computing University
IBM Academic Initiative minimizes financial risk and makes course
possible


Backup – Wins


Recent Linux on System z stories
Press releases
IBM Introduces New System z Linux IBM Builds Massive Business Analytics
Solutions for Large-Scale Consolidation Cloud for 200,000 Employees and
and Savings Unveils Version for Clients

IBM announced new Linux offerings for System IBM announced the world's largest private
z to help clients run smarter and more efficient cloud computing environment for business
data centers that maximize the use of IT analytics, which will provide IBM sales teams
resources and reduce energy costs. For clients and developers new levels of insight to better
currently running a distributed computing meet the needs of clients worldwide. The cloud
environment, IBM’s new Enterprise Linux will launch initially with more than a petabyte of
Server is a standalone system fully dedicated to data, the equivalent of more than 300 billion
running the Linux environment. ATM.
“We chose an IBM Enterprise Linux Server IBM System z - supports the foundation for the
running Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server cloud with z/VM, industry-leading virtualization
for its high reliability, advanced security, running Linux on efficient "specialty engines"
extreme scalability and high compute power," for massive scale with resilient, secure, multi-
said Ernst Bauer, Chief Operating Officer at tenant operations.
EFiS Financial Solutions AG in Germany.
ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/29006.wss ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28823.wss


Recent Linux on System z stories
Press releases
New IBM mainframe customer selected Strong business continuity, security and
System z to create an advanced IT platform cost-efficiency results by deploying
to support the explosive Internet growth virtualization technology using Linux and
z/OS on IBM System z servers

China Internet Network Information Handelsbanken (Sweden): The System z
Center (CNNIC): After stringent tests and mainframe can consolidate hundreds of virtual
simulations on various industry solutions in late servers into a single mainframe - allowing to run
2008, CNNIC decided to use IBM System z9 critical customer transactions in the midst of
BC as the IT foundation of its "Prospective executing other strategic IT projects. To maintain
Business Research Platform". CNNIC chose business operations for the 660 branch offices,
IBM's mainframe technology for its superior the bank utilizes Parallel Sysplex IBM's System z
integration capability, as well as unmatched clustering technology and IBM's availability and
stability and security required for its IT disaster recovery solution Geographically
infrastructure. Dispersed Parallel Sysplex™ (GDPS®).
ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/27768.wss ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/27282.wss


Dynamic Infrastructure with Linux on System z

Linux on IBM System z is matching the attributes of a dynamic infrastructure
Reduced
VIRTUALIZATION
+ ENERGY
EFFICIENCY + SECURITY &
RESILIENECY + AUTOMATION
= Cost

- exploiting the leading z/VM and System z capabilities to run multiple,
mixed mission-critical & infrastructure workloads concurrently

Clients are leveraging
the unique values of the
Linux on System z environment

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