Midrange Featured Product

IBM System z9 Business Class

The z9 BC is designed specifically as a midrange mainframe and offers extensive growth options and excellent price/performance for those customers requiring a lower-capacity entry point and more granular growth options than offered with the z9 EC.

The IBM z9 BC is designed to help enable your businesses to be resilient in the unpredictable on demand world. With two models and a wide range of capacity settings, the newest member of the IBM System z9 family delivers significantly improved granularity and enriched functions over its predecessor, the IBM eServer(TM) zSeries(R) z890. The Model S07 can provide up to twice the memory, and more specialty engines as compared with the z890. Also introduced is the System z9 Integrated Information Processor (zIIP).

The IBM zIIP is the latest customer-inspired specialty engine for the IBM System z9 family. Following on the success of the widely accepted Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) and System z9 Application Assist Processor (zAAP), the zIIP is designed to help improve resource optimization and lower the cost of eligible workloads, enhancing the role of the mainframe as the data hub of the enterprise.

The z9 BC offers four FICON Express4 features that support auto-negotiated speeds of 1, 2, and 4 Gbps. One of the FICON Express4 features is a 2-port card that provides attractive entry pricing to FICON technology adoption and is offered exclusively on the z9 BC.

All FICON Express4 and FICON Express2 features support the Modified Indirect Data Address Word (MIDAW) facility. MIDAW is a system architecture with software exploitation that is designed to help improve channel utilization and throughput, and potentially reduce I/O response times. The number of FICON Express4 and FICON Express2 concurrent I/O operations that may be active simultaneously has been increased from 32 to 64 per channel as compared to the z890.

IBM has a broad range of disk, tape and SAN products that are ready to support FICON Express4. IBM TotalStorage DS8000 series and IBM TotalStorage DS6000 series disk systems, part of IBM's System Storage portfolio, support the MIDAW facility to help enable the potential throughput and response time benefits that the MIDAW facility can bring.

Integrated clear key encryption security features on the z9 BC include support for Advanced Encryption Standard, Secure Hash Algorithm-256, and integrated Pseudo Random Number Generation. Performing these functions in hardware can contribute to improved performance.

Application of the z9 BC advanced virtualization technologies creates a solid foundation for flexible integration of business and information management.

Innovations on the z9 BC can help to ensure you have a security-rich platform, can help maximize your resources and their utilization, and can help provide you the ability to integrate applications and data across the infrastructure. The z9 BC is designed to be a flagship component of your data serving environment.

Executive Summary

IBM System z9 BC (z9 BC) - the next step in the transformation The z9 BC continues the transformation of the mainframe, building upon the structure introduced on z9 EC in support of z/Architecture(TM), reliability, availability, scalability, and virtualization. The z9 BC expands upon key attributes of the platform - reliability, availability, scalability, and virtualization - to help ensure you have a resilient infrastructure designed to satisfy the requirements of on demand business. With a low entry point, more engines, increased performance and total system capacity on the z9 BC as compared to a z890, you have an opportunity to continue to consolidate diverse applications on a single platform at the right capacity.

Midrange Stock:2096 S07 with Capacity Setting R01

2096-S07 IBM System z9 Business Class
0089 SE-Ethernet Switch
0090 HMC x2
0114 Cargo Cage Airflow Cd x25
0155 Orbit CEC
0160 Fan-out Card x2
0161 MBA Fan-out Airflow x6
0323 STI-A8 Card Mother
0325 STI-MP Card Daughter x2
1116 Model S07
1502 2 GB Memory Card x4
2699 Memory Airflow x 4
2901 8GB LICCC Enabled Memory
2924 Language Grp-US English
3067 Support Element w/ Dual E x2
3322 FICON Express4 SX x2
3365 OSA-Express2 GbE SX x2
3366 OSA-Express2 1000BASE-T E x2
4969 1-Way Processor R01
5869 R01 Capacity Marker
6096 Flat Panel Display x2
6155 ETR 1 Port x2
7857 CP-R
8990 14 ft 250v 1 PH Cord
9967 Site Tool Kit

Midrange Equipment Costing: $123,000.00