IBM Z10 EC - Manual (Page 3)

IBM System z10 Enterprise Class
(z10 EC) Overview
The IBM System z10 ™ Enterprise Class (z10 ™ EC) server is
designed to meet the challenges of today’s business world
and to be the cornerstone of an evolutionary new model for
effi cient IT delivery called the Dynamic Infrastructure ® . This
model helps reset the economics of IT and can dramati-
cally improve operational effi ciency, security, and respon-
siveness – to help keep a business competitive.
The z10 EC ™ , with its advanced combination of reliability,
availability, serviceability, security, scalability, and virtual-
ization, delivers the technology that can help defi ne this
framework for the future. The z10 EC delivers improvements
to performance, capacity, and memory which can help
enterprises grow their existing business while providing a
cost-effective infrastructure for large-scale consolidation.
The October 2008 announcements extend the z10 EC
leadership with improved access to data and the network;
tighter security with longer Personal Account Numbers for
stronger protection of data; enhancements for improved
performance when connecting to the network; increased
fl exibility in defi ning your options to handle backup require-
ments; and enhanced time accuracy to an external time
source.
Any successful business needs to be able to deliver timely,
integrated information to business leaders, support per-
sonnel, and customers on a 24x7 basis. This means that
access to data needs to be fast, secure, and dependable.
Enhancements made to z/Architecture ® and the FICON ®
interface architecture with the High Performance FICON
for System z (zHPF) are optimized for online transaction
processing (OLTP) workloads. The FICON Express4 and
FICON Express2 features support the native FICON proto-
col and the zHPF protocol.
The System z10 was introduced with a new connectivity
option for LANs – Open Systems Adapter-Express3 (OSA-
Express3). The OSA-Express3 features provide improved
performance by reducing latency at the TCP/IP application.
Direct access to the memory allows packets to fl ow directly
from the memory to the LAN without fi rmware intervention in
the adapter.
An IT system needs to be available and protected every
day. The z10 EC offers availability enhancements which
include faster service time for CF Duplexing, updates to
Server Time Protocol (STP) for enhanced time accuracy to
an External Time Source, and support for heterogeneous
platforms in an enterprise to track to the same time source.
Security enhancements to the Crypto Express2 feature
deliver support for 13-, 14-, 15-, 16-, 17-, 18-, and 19-digit
Personal Account Numbers for stronger protection of data.
The z10 EC has a new architectural approach for temporary
offerings that have the potential to change the thinking
about on demand capacity. The z10 EC can have one or
more fl exible confi guration defi nitions that can be available
to solve multiple temporary situations and multiple capacity
confi gurations that can be active at once. This means that
On/Off Capacity on Demand (CoD) can be active and up to
seven other offerings can be active simultaneously. Tokens
are available that can be purchased for On/Off CoD either
before or after execution.
Updates to the z10 EC are designed to help improve IT
today, outline a compelling case for the future running on
System z, and lock in the z10 EC as the cornerstone in your
Dynamic Infrastructure by delivering superior business and
IT services with agility and speed.
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