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© 2008 IBM Corporation

IBM System z

Update and Direction

Gaylan BraseltonSTG Solution Sales – [email protected]

April 28th, 2008

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Agenda

The New Enterprise Data Center

The role of System z in the data center

Introducing the System z10 Enterprise Class

Industry Directions

System z Directions


IT organizations are challenged by a set of operational issues

Environmental compliance & governance mandates

Explosion in volume of data and information

Power & thermal issues inhibit operations

Difficulty in deploying new applications and services

Rising costs of systems and networking operations

Rising energy costs & rising energy demand

Growth of compliance requirements

Security of your assets & your clients’ information

Systems and applications need to be available

Challenges

Costs & Service Delivery

Business Resiliency & Security

EnergyRequirements

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The New Enterprise Data Center: An evolutionary new model for efficient IT delivery . . .

New economics: Virtualization with optimized systems and networks to break the lock between IT resources and business services

Rapid service delivery: Service management enables visibility, control and automation to deliver quality service at any scale

Aligned with business goals: Real-time integration of transactions, information and analytics - and delivery of IT as a service


IBM System z:The Cornerstone of the New Enterprise Data Center

Simplified: Change the Operational model to reduce cost– Operational superiority through Extreme virtualization and leading

management

– Robustness through leadership security and availability

– Save more by adding further virtualized applications

Shared: Today’s ultimate shared resource pool– Processors, memory and channels can be shared across all the

applications

– Hundreds of applications can share resources on System z simultaneously

Dynamic: automating service delivery to meet new business needs

– Automated provisioning and management optimize for high value services

– Services can be added or deleted on the fly

– Applications can be integrated with centralized enterprise-wide real time data

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System z Enterprise Information

Runs the world’s stock exchanges

& banking networks

24x7 ATM Deposits

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Tracks the world’spackagesReserves

airline seats

95% of top Fortune1000 companies

56 out of the top56 banks in the world

23 of the top25 US retailers

$3 trillion/day transferred by one customer

9 of the top 10 global life/health insurance providers

DB2 for z/OS supports the world’slargest known peak database workload


System z Workload Growth

2001 2004 2007Specialty Engine total inventory

70% CAGR

91% CAGR

159% CAGRzIIP’s

zAAP’s

IFL’s

System z total inventory

Specialty engines successfully target client issues

2000 2004 2007

14% CAGR

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SystemsZ9 - $1.2 billion - 5,000 tech professionalsZ10 – $1.5B zFutures – already > $100M ( not POWER based ) Greater $ investments for the next generationsto drive growth + $1B yr

Simplification1 $100M

Academic initiative

Strategic Investments…

Joint InitiativeOngoing collaboration

1. Planned and on-going investment

250+ “support” people added to platform in 20071

More expected in 20081

Field technical enablement

SAP & ORACLE


Building mainframe skills for the community

Academic Initiative by the numbers:– Participation – 441 schools registered, >49,000 students attended mainframe education– Courses – 25 Courses (plus more under development) & Mastery Exam Certification – zCommunity – 22 Roundtables events with Clients / Schools / ISVs / Business Partners – Resources – Access to Mainframes worldwide for teaching (6 Univ hubs) – Student MF Contests – 9 contests with 8,180 students, 1,136 schools…more planned WW– IBM zSkills ([email protected]) + over 300 IBM Mainframe ambassadors– Assist Professors – Fourth annual Professor Summer Seminar, Faculty awards, education coupons– Collateral / WW Analyst & Press events / Corporate PR Campaign underway

Web site - www.ibm.com/university/systemz

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Olso University (Sweden)4 years running Enterprise Mainframe Courses

Marist College (US)On-Demand with Enterprise Systems Certificate program

University of Arkansas (US)Into Linux on zEnterprise Transaction SysUniversity HUB

Republic Polytechnic (Singapore)Enterprise Computing Learning CenterTeaches mainframe classes

Stevens Institute (US)Undergraduate andGraduate Programs

Illinois State University (US)Enterprise Computing Major

Examples – For a complete list of schools world wide teaching mainframes, see: ibm.com/university/systemz

Tongji University (China)Mainframe ConcentrationPartnerships with Banks

Southampton University (UK)Partner with IBM Customers and Teaches System z Course

West Texas A&MUndergraduate CS Mainframe Concentration


Industry participation: z Roundtables on Campus

Links the business community with academia for enterprise systems curriculum advancement –faculty, IBM & z community

Validates the demand for students educated on IBM enterprise systems

Shows faculty what they can leverage from the IBM Academic Initiative

23 z roundtables held in US since 2006

Utah – University of Utah, Weber State University, February 2008America First Credit Union (AFCU), DHI Computing, State of

Utah, Salt Lake County, Workers Compensation Fund, ZionsBankcorp

Cleveland – Case Western University, Cuyahoga CommunityCollege, Malone College, January 2008American Greeting, Antares Management Solutions, Forrester,

First Merrit Bank, Progressive, Westfield Group

Montana – Miles Community College, Montana State University –Northern, Stone Child College, Little Big Horn, University of Montana – Helena, Office of Comminisionor of Higher Education (OCHE), January 2008Blue Cross Blue Shield Montana, State of Montana

Florida – Barry University, Miami Dade College, December 2007Gulf Business Machines, Miami Dade Government, Royal Bank of Canada, Time Customer Service

Alabama – University of Alabama at Birmingham, October 2007Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, Colonial Bank, Compass Bank, Drummond Company, Mainline, Mayer Electric Supply Company, Motion Industries, Regions Financial Corporation

California – Sacramento State University, September 2007Department of Technology Services, State of CA, Franchise Tax Board, County of El Dorado, Health Net, Safeway, VSP, Schwab, TMSA, Alexan

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A growing community

Over 4,000 applications – up 600 in 2007Over 1,100 Linux applications – up 260 in 2007Over 1,200 ISVs – up 67 in 2007Academic Initiative - 441 schools and more than 49,000 students2007 largest increase in 10 yrs – new clients


Mainframe ParadigmMainframe original design point:

– Share everything

– Support of mixed workloads

– Highly available & secure

Virtualization helps enable:

– Simplification

– High utilization

– Intelligent management

This creates a foundation to:

– Help customers solve On Demand business problems

– Extend mainframe capabilities to intelligently manage virtualized resources across the enterprise

Mainframe multi-dimensional virtualization

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Virtualization – Is getting even hotter !!Mainframes – The Innovator and Leader in Virtualization Function

Share processor, memory, I/O, and network among multiple operating environments• Isolate workloads with EAL5 level security • Share resources among workloads• Enable communication for workloads internally with

an in-memory TCP/IP network35+ year history of virtualization, innovation and refinement• Hardware and software based for optimum performance

and flexibility• Robust suite of function for creating, provisioning,

deploying, and managing virtual serversz/VM Virtualization to simplify your IT infrastructure• Support up to hundreds of concurrent applications with z/VM

Share applications, data, as well as hardware among large numbers of servers• Management tools for operation, maintenance, and accounting


Power and cooling spend may eventually exceed new server spending

2000 – Raw processing Raw processing ““horsepowerhorsepower”” is the is the primary goal, while the primary goal, while the infrastructure to infrastructure to support it is assumed support it is assumed readyready

2006 –– Raw processing Raw processing ““horsepowerhorsepower”” is a is a given, but the given, but the infrastructure to infrastructure to support deployment is support deployment is a limiting factora limiting factor

SOURCE: IDC, ‘The Impact of Power and Cooling on Data Center Infrastructure,’ Document #201722, May 2006"

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Today’s Mainframe:The power of industry-leading security, the simplicity of centralized management

Security features built into all system layersConsolidation and simplification of security management Encryption options for protecting sensitive data Cryptographic acceleration and centralized key managementInternet security features Collaborate with Tivoli for enterprise-wide identity and access managementMonitor, audit and compliance tools with enterprise view

System z - Security-Rich by Design

System z recognized as Industry leader !!


40+ years heritage of corporate data servingHighly secure and robustCommon view of data to allCentralized end-to-end managementHighly scalableLow cost of ownership

Today’s Mainframe:The simplicity of a single data server, the power of a common view of data,

INTEGRATED with applications and middleware

Data serving for the enterpriseCentralized secure data serving for users and applications

Data is vital !!

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Deploy energy efficient technologies – reduce energy consumption and save floor space

System z servers may help customers become more energy efficient:

IFLs attractively priced, have no impact on z/OS license fees, and z/VM and Linux software priced at real engine capacity

‘No charge’ MES upgrades available when upgrading to new technology

Economics of IFLs and z/VM® help to drive down the cost of IT

Consolidation with Linux gets a “green light”

Over 1900 Linux on System z applications

from at least 400 vendors

Integrated Facility for Linux – IFL


Introducing…

The IBM System z10Enterprise Class

The worlds’ most powerful enterprise computing platform

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Introducing the IBM System z10TM Enterprise Class…a marriage of evolution and revolution

Evolution– Scalability and virtualization to

reduce cost and complexity– Improved efficiency to further

reduce energy consumption– Improved security and

resiliency to reduce risk– New heights in storage

scalability and data protection

Revolution– 4.4 GHz chip to deliver improved

performance for CPU intensive workloads

– ‘Just in time’ deployment of capacity resources

– Vision to expand System z capabilities with Cell Broadband EngineTM technology


New Enterprise Quad Core z10 processor chip – 4.4 GHz - additional throughput means improved

price/performance– Cache rich environment optimized for data

serving– 50+ instructions added to improve compiled

code efficiency– Support for 1MB page frames

Hardware accelerators on the chip– Hardware data compression– Cryptographic functions– Hardware Decimal Floating point

CPU intensive workloads get performance improvements from new core pipeline design

Enterprise Quad Core z10 processor chip

Making high performance a reality

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Unprecedented performance and capacity Transforming the economics of the data center

•50% average increase in specialty engine performance•Up to 2x performance increase in CPU intensive tasks •Up to 10x improvement in decimal floating point instructions

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70% more usable capacity

Lower software license costsLower labor costsLower energy and facilities costs

"IBM’s z10 EC is the computer industry’s pinnacle systems platform. Blow-away performance, increased capacity, and expanded memory makes this system the absolute best scale-up architecture — bar none — in the computing industry Joe Clabby, President, Clabby Analytics 2008


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Specialty Engines – Mainframe Innovation

Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL)

System z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP)

Information WorkloadsInformation HubMaster Data ManagementOperational Business IntelligenceEnterprise Applications

► PS, Siebel, …

Java ApplicationsIBM Middleware StackEnterprise SOA PlatformIndustry Applications

System z Application Assist Processor (zAAP)

Special Purposed Engines to lower cost of computing► Linux application portfolio on System z► Java applications on z/OS► Enterprise DB2 Services

InfrastructureGreen IT OptimizationIBM and Oracle Middleware StackOpen Middleware

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System z10 EC is Cost Effective and can help youGo Green by delivering highly energy efficient technology

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between Network and Integrated

Aerospace and Defense

Financial Services Sector

Chemicals and Petroleum

Digital Video Surveillance

DigitalMedia

Information Based Medicine

Electronic Design Automation

Integrated and / or Networked Cell (NG)

System z and Cell Broadband Engine – The VisionA ‘Marriage’ of Two Technologies that Perfectly Complement Each Other

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Keeping your system available is central to our designContinuing our RAS focus helps avoid outages

Scheduled (CIE+Disruptive Patches + ECs)Planned - (M ES + Driver Upgrades) Unscheduled (UIRA)

Sources of Outages - Pre z9 -Hrs/Year/Syst-

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ResourceLink™ provides tools to estimates server energy requirements before you purchase a new system or an upgradeHas energy efficiency monitoring tool

– Introduced on IBM System z9 platform in April 2007– Power and thermal information displayed via the System Activity Display (SAD)

New IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager (AEM) for Linux on System z V3.1– Offers a single view of actual energy usage across multiple heterogeneous IBM platforms

within the infrastructure– AEM V3.1 energy management data can be exploited by Tivoli® enterprise solutions such as

IBM Tivoli Monitoring, IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager, and IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON® XE on z/OS

– AEM V3.1 is a key component of IBM’s Cool Blue™ portfolio within Project Big Green

Tracking energy consumption within the infrastructure

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Protecting with IBM’s world-class Business Resiliency and Security solutions

Preplanning capabilities to avoid future planned outages, e.g. dynamic LPAR allocation without a system outage100 available capacity settings – 30% more than z9 ECIntegrated enterprise level resiliency for heterogeneous data center disaster recovery management Policy driven flexibility to add capacity and backup processorsBasic HyperSwap improves storage availability *Integrated cryptographic accelerator

– Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 192 and 256 and Stronger hash algorithm with Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-512)

Tamper-resistant Crypto Express2 feature

– Supports high levels of security for demanding applications– Fully programmable and configurable– High scale performance for SSL transactions

Trusted Key Entry (TKE) 5.2 with optional Smart Card readerSystem z – the only platform that is EAL5 certified

* All statements regarding IBM future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represents goals and objectives only.


z/OSProviding intelligent dispatching on z10 EC for performance Up to 64-way support Simplified capacity provisioning on z10 EC New high availability disk solution with simplified management Enabling extreme storage volume scaling Facilitating new zIIP exploitation

z/TPFSupport for 64+ processorsWorkload charge pricingExploit encryption technology

z/VSE™

Interoperability with Linux on System zExploit encryption technology MWLC pricing with sub-capacity option

z/VM

Linux on System zLarge Page Support improves performanceLinux CPU Node Affinity is designed to avoid cache pollution Software support for extended CP Assist instructions AES & SHA

Consolidation of many virtual images in a single LPAREnhanced management functions for virtual imagesLarger workloads with more scaleability

Operating systems

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... scalability and performanceHiperDispatch for intelligent dispatching of work for optimized performance1

Up to 1TB of real memory2 and 64 processors (zIIPs, zAAPs, and CPs) 3 per LPARExtended Address Volume (EAV) capability for large storage volumes, improved storage managemement4,5

Large (1 MB) pages expected to reduce memory management overhead for exploiting applications3

Support for Hardware Decimal Floating Point enables high performance computing for your commercial workloads3

Support for InfiniBand Coupling Links1,6

... networking and connectivityPolicy-based networking helps create a network responsive to your application needs1

Automatic intrusion defense capabilities4

...availabilityBasic HyperSwap – for high availability disk3,*

Parallel Sysplex and GDPS enhancements

... simplified operationsCapacity Provisioning Manager can monitor systems and dynamically activate / deactivate capacity3

New z/OS Management Facility – planned – a single, modern, Web-browser based management console for z/OS, intended to simplify day to day operations and administration of a z/OS system. *

....improved economicsAdditional XML exploitation of specialty engines3

zIIP assisted z/OS Global Mirror (XRC) 3

(1) available with z/OS V1.7 with appropriate maintenance(2) available with z/OS V1.8 and appropriate maintenance, 1TB memory on z10 E56 and E64

only(3) available with z/OS V1.9 and appropriate maintenance(4) planned for z/OS V1.10(5) with appropriate storage(6) Planned availability 2Q08(*) All statements regarding IBM future direction and intent are subject to change or

withdrawal without notice, and represents goals and objectives only

z/OS V1.10 Preview - Integration with the z10 ECSupporting System z innovation, raising the IT bar and taking System z to the next level of...


z10 EC

z990

z9 EC

Designed to protect your investment by offering upgrades from z9 EC and z990 to the z10 EC

Full upgradeability within the System z10 family– Upgrade to Model E64 will require a

planned outage

Temporary or permanent growth when you need it– New provisioning architecture

Protecting your investment in IBM technology

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Announcing New IBM Services for System z10:Providing premier service and support for the enterprise

IT Server optimization and integration services– Reduce complexity in the IT infrastructure

Implementation Services for Parallel Sysplex– Help move to a centralized data server

while protecting data integrity

Implementation Services for GDPS– Industry-unique integrated and automated

end-to-end recovery across multiple platforms

Implementation Services for Tape Systems – Tape encryption for compliance and

information lifecycle management


A Growing Community…

Over 4,000 applications – up 600 in 2007

Over 1,100 Linux applications – up 260 in 2007

Over 1,200 ISVs – up 67 in 2007

Academic Initiative - Over 400 schools and more than 40,000 students

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z10 EC: Extending leadership capabilities for The New Enterprise Data Center

70% greater Capacity

– Huge expansion of virtual resource pool

– enables consolidation of hundreds of additional applications

Just in Time capacity to help deliver optimal service to the business

IBM Tivoli Service Management Center for System z

Extended resiliency & security

Green by design

Dynamic


The future System z

• Leadership data serving• Most efficient design• Highly Integrated design using the

best technologies • Acceleration• Applications

• Virtualized system fabric • management integration

• Easy to use • Most Available & Secure

Extending today’s leadershipInto the future …

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…The Future begins todayThe Future runs on System z…

The System z10 Enterprise Class

"The IBM mainframe has been a key part of our IT infrastructure over the years, with clear cost benefits, but this new system takes that value proposition a leap ahead. The capacity and scale of this system changes the economics of the mainframe and is a significant step forward in addressing our constantly evolving technology needs."

Sandee Kotowski, Manager of Mainframe Infrastructure, Hewitt Associates.


Gaylan [email protected]

Thank you.

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z10 EC displays energy efficiency on SAD screensUtilizes IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager for Linux on System z for trend calculations and management of other servers that participate

MonitoringEnvironmentals

z10 EC has up to 64 logical processors in an LPAR versus 54 on z9 ECz10 EC has HiperDispatch for improved synergy with z/OS Operating System to deliver scalability and performance

LPARsHiperDispatch

Virtualization

Capacity Provisioning MgrRAS FocusJust in Time deployment of Capacity

HiperSocketsFICON for SANsTotal channelsInternal I/O Bandwidth

Enhanced I/O structureCouplingCryptography

LAN Connectivity

Uniprocessor Perf.System CapacityProcessor Design ModelsProcessing Units (PUs)Granular CapacityMemoryFixed HSA

z10 EC & z/OS (1.9) for policy based advice and automation z10 EC can help eliminate preplanning required to avoid scheduled outagesCapacity on Demand offerings CBU and On/Off CoD plus new Capacity for Planned Events are resident on z10 EC

On Demand / RAS

z10 EC New HiperSockets Layer 2 and Multiple Write FacilityUp to 336 FICON channels on z10 EC and z9 ECSame - Up to 1024 channelsz10 EC has industry standard 6 GBps InfiniBand supports high speed connectivity and high bandwidth versus z9 EC using 2.7 GBps Self Time Interconnects (STIs)Star L2 Cache Book Interconnect versus Ring Topology interconnect on z9 ECCoupling with InfiniBand 1 – improved distance and potential cost savingsImproved AES 192 and 256 and stronger hash algorithm with Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-512)New OSA-Express31 for 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity

Connectivity

62% performance improvement over z9 EC uniprocessor *70% system capacity performance improvement over z9 EC 54-way **New 4.4GHz processor chip z10 EC has 5 and z9 EC has 5 models, both with up to 4 booksz10 EC has up to 64 PUs to configure, up to 54 on z9 ECz10 EC has up to 100 Capacity settings versus 78 on the z9 ECz10 EC has up to 1.5 TB vs. up to 512 GB on z9 ECz10 EC has fixed 16 GB HSA, z9 EC had HSA carved from purchased memory

Processor / Memory

z10 EC functional comparison to z9 EC

1 Planned availability 2Q08


Increasing capacity, reducing outages and enhancing capabilitiesFive hardware modelsFaster Uni Processor 1

Up to 64 customer PUs36 CP Subcapacity SettingsStar Book InterconnectUp to 1.5 TB memoryFixed 16 GB HSA as standardLarge Page Support (1 MB)HiperDispatch Enhanced CPACF SHA 512, AES 192 and 256-bit keys Hardware Decimal Floating PointJust in Time Deployment for capacity offerings –permanent and temporary

6.0 GBps InfiniBand HCA to I/O interconnectSCSI IPL included in Base LICOSA-Express3 10 GbE 2

HiperSockets Multi Write Facility enhancementsHiperSockets Layer 2 SupportInfiniBand Coupling Links 2

STP using InfiniBand 2

Capacity Provisioning SupportScheduled Outage ReductionImproved RASFICON LX Fiber Quick ConnectPower Monitoring support

1 Compared to z9 EC 2 Planned availability 2Q08 * All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.

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