IBM z13 Technical Introduction
by André Spahni, Giancarlo Rodolfi, Ewerson Palacio, Frank Packheiser, Mauricio Andozia Nogueira, Lourenço Luitgards Moura Neto, Steven LaFalce, Rakesh Krishnakumar, Parwez Hamid, Hans-Peter Eckam, Erik Bakker, Octavian Lascu
Overview
This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces the IBM
z13™. IBM z13 delivers a data and transaction system
reinvented as a system of insight for digital business. IBM z
Systems™ leadership is extended with these
features:
Improved ability to meet service level agreements with new
processor chip technology that includes simultaneous
multithreading, analytical vector processing, redesigned and larger
cache, and enhanced accelerators for hardware compression and
cryptography
Better availability and more efficient use of critical data with
up to 10 TB available redundant array of independent memory
(RAIM)
Validation of transactions, management, and assignment of
business priority for SAN devices through updates to the I/O
subsystem
Continued management of heterogeneous workloads with IBM z
BladeCenter Extension (zBX) Model 004 and IBM z Unified Resource
Manager
This Redbooks publication can help you become familiar with the z
Systems platform, and understand how the platform can help
integrate data, transactions, and insight for faster and more
accurate business decisions.
This book explains how, with innovations and traditional strengths, IBM z13 can play an essential role in today's IT environments, and satisfy the demands for cloud deployments, analytics, mobile, and social applications in a trustful, reliable, and secure environment with operations that lessen business risk.
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