Z Enterprise.Optimization And Security

Editor's Notes

• #3: During this session we will briefly discuss the changes to business applications and workloads, some of the specific values that can be gained with zEnterprise and then review several client examples built by the teams over the course of the last year.
• #4: Around the world, all industries are re-shaping their business models. They are facing enormous pressure to enhance their business functions to meet the demands of a highly sophisticated consumer, whether it is the increased use of the web and internet or the desire to command life from mobile devices such as a Blackberry, the iPhone or even an iPad. As the consumer becomes “Smarter” businesses will have to respond. In the Retail industry the move from ‘brick & motor’ has pressured companies to make sure the on-line experience is profitable and efficient. They are doing this with predictive selling, proposing products to the consumer based on previous purchases, or by providing an enhanced function like being able to save for college while you shop. In Healthcare and across industries, it has become imperative that the provider has the most current and detailed information about a patient or consumer. We, the consumer, demand that there be safe, consolidated records of our health, finances and travel preferences.
• #5: These new business models are driving requirements for complex changes into the components of a traditional workload or application, they are driving IT further into the need for heterogeneous computing and towards what can be called a hybrid transaction. A hybrid transaction is the idea that a transaction requires multiple types of architectures for the highest level of efficient execution and in order to attain SLA requirements. Let’s use a real world example of such an application. You call your wireless carrier to ask them about a charge to your bill. They do a traditional query of your account and answer your question. At the same time they do the traditional query, they do an analysis of your account, which is considered business intelligence and they suggest that if you change your plan to Plan XYZ, you can save $20 a month. In that one transaction they’ve combined to types of processing. One is the query is traditional OLTP and the second is a complex query against the operation DB, which is CPU intensive, and in the past typically done on different platform against a Data Warehouse DB. This is one example, and I’m sure you can come up with others that you encounter in your everyday life. The assertion is that transactions will benefit more and more from integrated or offboard accelerators for its processing. This is seen in the enterprise today with the proliferation of appliance accelerators such as WebServices, ESBs, and Encryption. Therefore the IT will need to evolve to complete application integration to address these future business requirements.
• #6: Unfortunately, while IT needs to evolve quickly and become highly responsive, flexible to astonishing degrees, while maintaining security and being cost competitive, it is naive to think this can be done effectively and efficiently utilizing a single platform architecture. As the example of the ‘hybrid’ transactions shows, all platforms have a role to play, each having their own strengths (and weaknesses). System z excels in many areas however we are known for leading edge data serving and the highest of security, resilience and scalability for on-line transaction application components. Power systems are best at handling the need for high performance demands such as numerically or video intense components. And clearly System x has the broadest portfolio of vendor and industry specific applications, serving very well the needs of critical niche applications or application components. What we are seeing, is that more and more applications require the interaction and integration of multiple platforms to achieve end-to- end business success.
• #7: We all see these workloads everyday, across industries. In Banking there are components across retail and wholesale banking that rely on several architectures to execute, but the core of most banking relies on System z and z/OS. Insurance typically maintains Claims processing on z but reaches out to the internet for interaction with consumers, utilizing Linux, Unix and Intel. Public Sector is relying more and more on the web based capability to reach out to consumers and improve the rate of return for taxes, accurate payment of social benefits and even Census based reporting.
• #8: Over the last several months, working with customers and to deeply understand the complexion of their business applications, challenges, issues and goals for the future; we have been able to see that these workloads fall into one of several recognizable patterns. The first pattern is Core Applications, these are System z based applications that have all data and business logic based on z (z/OS and/or Linux on z). Most other patterns tend to build off Core Applications as a base, such as Multi-Tier Web Serving or Data Warehouse & Analytics where the workload is heterogeneous in hardware infrastructure and software componentry, but begins with data and often business logic on System z. In addition, zEnterprise provides an infrastructure that ideally supports many configurations of SAP. Data resides in DB2 on z/OS for security, consistency and availability but Application Serving can be hosted on zLinux, AIX or Linux on Intel, providing flexibility in cost and complexity.
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• #11: During this session we will briefly discuss the changes to business applications and workloads and then review several client examples built by the teams over the course of the last year.
• #12: This chart shows the relative performance of WebSphere Version 7 for z/OS running the DayTrader 2.0 benchmark (JPA 2.0) on zEnterprise hardware compared to z10. The chart has 2 bars which shows the cumulative effect of both the hardware and software performance improvements possible for applications running on zEnterprise and that exploit the caching capabilities of WebSphere Version 7 and the WebSphere Version 7 Feature Pack.. The first bar is the DayTrader application running without any data caching on Version 7 on z10 hardware. This is the baseline. The second bar shows the performance improvement due to the software and hardware. It is the DayTrader application running with data caching on Version 7 and the JPA Feature Pack. This improves performance by about 35%. With the addition of zEnterprise hardware, the performance improves another 43% giving a cumulative effect of 93% performance improvement over the baseline. Note also that previously, the combined hardware and software performance gains when moving from a base of WebSphere Version 6.1 on z9 hardware to WebSphere Version 7 on z10 hardware yields another 120% improvement in performance. So, for some applications, migrating from z9 to zEnterprise hardware, coupled upgraded software could produce performance improvements as large as 4x! JPA is the Java EE standard for object-relational persistence and was first introduced as part of Java EE 5. JPA 2.0 (JSR-317) updates object-relational capabilities with important developer capabilities and enhancements. The WebSphere Application Server JPA implementation is based on Apache OpenJPA, a leading open source Java persistence framework. OpenJPA offers a powerful caching infrastructure. Applications that can exploit JPA caching can realize significant performance improvements. Caching optimizations are found in both the base WebSphere Version 7 releases as well as the Version 7 JPA Feature Pack. As is frequently the case, the degree of improvement depends on the application’s data reference patterns. In DayTrader case, about 30% of the software performance increase is due to performance improvements in the base V7 WebSphere release (i.e. V7.0.0.9), and another 5% is due to performance improvements in the JPA Feature Pack. Running the exact same WebSphere application and middleware on zEnterprise hardware alone yielded a 43% increase in performance.
• #13: While we have expanded the options available for deploying Linux workloads, utilizing Linux on z can drive significant financial benefits, particularly for larger scale deployments. With the new zEnterprise, each IFL delivers significantly more performance and capacity for a substantially lower price than System z10. With the ability to consolidate the workloads of thousands of distributed servers on to a single z196, the TCA of System z is now lower than some Intel environments for certain workloads. What’s more, with this scale of consolidation you can reduce physical floor space requirements and energy consumption by up to 90 and 80% respectively. Finally, the introduction of the Unified Resource manager brings improved workload management to a Linux on System z environment, further improving its ability to deliver great service to the business.
• #15: This chart represents the business components of a large North American Bank. Each one of the ovals represents a machine. A bunch of them in the top right are running websphere, for example. Using vMotion to move a virtual machine from one server to another is a small part of the puzzle. All the other issues of multiple interconnects with the security issues they present, still remain. As does the “silo” management approach. VMWare propagates the “fit for politics” approach. Transition: let’s see what happens if we virtualize most of this on a zEnterprise….
• #16: In this chart, everything, except the end user devices, has been moved into a zEnterprise. Some of it might be on zOS, some on Linux on z, some on AIX on blades, some on x86 Linux on blades, whatever makes sense. But it’s all managed centrally, with the benefits outlines at the bottom of the chart. Note that there are no more physical LANs connecting all these distributed systems. They have been replaced with virtual LANs on a private data network, for greater security and fewer points of failure. Key is that the business applications, and the programming model, are unchanged. We just moved them onto a superior infrastructure.
• #17: During this session we will briefly discuss the changes to business applications and workloads and then review several client examples built by the teams over the course of the last year.
• #21: During this session we will briefly discuss the changes to business applications and workloads and then review several client examples built by the teams over the course of the last year.
• #22: Today the internet banking for a large European bank is structured across System z, Power and Intel within a complex Parallel Sysplex. There are multiple sites and the application supports banking in over 22 countries. The environment is extremely complex and has several, single points of failure. During the course of mapping the application the client also discovered majority of thier maintenance is applied manually. Each of these challenges contributes to demanding requirements for staff, and has made it difficult for the bank to address the application backlog and enhance their customer service across the banks represented. Client desires modernize and move aggressively forward to a more service oriented approach to application development. Complexity and maintaining multiple infrastructures has made this difficult.
• #23: The proposed zEnterprise environment provides this client to initially simplify and standardize their infrastructure. Lowering cost by instituting a single management and policy framework. There is also strong believe that zEnterprise will provide flexibility in platform choice as the choose how to move forward with Service Oriented Architecture. The ability to ‘right fit’ application service components, choosing platforms as appropriate to gain performance but be cost efficient, is attractive and believed to be an exclusive of this offering. They feel this will provide them the ability to put greater focus on delivering new business function and enhancing the ‘local bank’ experience across multiple European countries. As the client has progressed further with the activity, exploring more of the options and benefits of zEnterprise, they have now also embarked on an investigation of their IT organization, believing that restructure my allow them to derive even higher benefits.
• #24: A large healthcare claims provider has begun to investigate choices for expanding their implementation of Master Data Management. Today the client has begun with the MDM server on AIX on Power, front ending multiple data stores across DB2 and IMS. The project needs to expand to consolidate data and systems, this has been difficult due to numerous acquisitions. There is also tremendous pressure to support new industry standards while streamlining development/test and promotion to production. A desire to have end-to-end visibility of the application was also given as a requirement.
• #25: The zEnterprise environment would provide the client the opportunity to evaluate several choices (z/OS, Linux for z, AIX) for placement of the MDM server, including the freedom to choose multiple platforms while gaining the ability to manage and monitor all platforms as if they were logically one system. The client feels this will increase their ability to respond and competitiveness in a very challenging industry. There is an ability to co-locate data and application in a better fashion, taking advantage of the high speed private network. Possibly there is an opportunity to reduce firewalls and encryption. Enhanced virtualization across architectures will allow them to consolidate and simplify. In addition, the client is located in a large metropolitan area and has noted the integration of the zBX in the zEnterprise will provide significant savings in facilities and energy costs.
• #26: Company information: With 35 years of experience, Payment Business Services (PBS) is a leading developer and supplier of payment solutions for banks, private organizations and public institutions in Denmark. Jointly owned by Danish banks, PBS handles payment transactions of all kinds -- from point-of-sale (POS) terminal networks to its local-brand debit card, Dankort, to international credit cards. PBS also offers a wide range of products and services designed to help simplify administration and operations for its clients, including direct debit service, e-invoicing and supplier services. Business need: PBS won the contract for implementing and running a digital signature (PKI) infrastructure for the national danID in Denmark. This solution was unique in that nowhere else in the world was there a national digital identity card project implemented on a country-wide scale. Solution: IBM proposed the operational platform for the digital signature infrastructure and established the IBM System z9 Enterprise Class server running z/OS platform for development, test and production. IBM then developed cryptographic security based on mandated security regulations. This solution allows all Danish citizens to sign-on and perform digital signatures in both banking and public systems using a single shared one-time password (OTP) device. It is an innovative solution combining a general purpose engine, specialty engines and hybrid-accelerators, used together to improve the price/performance ratio for the Java and crypto workloads. To meet the needs of the client, PBS had to be able to accommodate the following: Same userid and logon-id procedure for both the public and the banking infrastructure. Access from any computer. Improved security of a two-factor-authentication with a one-time password. Solution: IBM proposed the operational platform for the digital signature infrastructure and established the IBM System z9 Enterprise Class server running z/OS platform for development, test and production. IBM then developed cryptographic security based on mandated security regulations. This solution allows all Danish citizens to sign-on and perform digital signatures in both banking and public systems using a single shared one-time password (OTP) device. It is an innovative solution combining a general purpose engine, specialty engines and hybrid-accelerators, used together to improve the price/performance ratio for the Java and crypto workloads.
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