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Whether you want to deploy new applications quickly, grow your organization without growing IT costs, or consolidate your infrastructure to reduce complexity, z Can Do IT. System z is a robust platform that has the power and flexibility to meet the needs of today's most demanding environments while providing investment protection and value well into the future.
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Our customers speak
Fratelli Carli
A leading producer of premium olive oil and other consumer products, Fratelli Carli choose the IBM System z10 because of its ability to integrate modern Linux systems with fast VSE 'Legacy' applications in an extremely reliable and highly secure environment.
Fiducia IT AG
FIDUCIA is a service provider for corporate banks in the south of Germany that uses IBM System z10s: IMS, DB2 and WebSphere, MQSeries systems to serve their customers needs.
Land Registry
System z and DB2 version 9 for z/OS enables Land Registry to offer 24/7 services with extremely high security while also reducing cost and streamlining their IT organization.
Fiserv
A global provider of information management and electronic commerce services for the financial institutions uses System z and DB2 to deliver confidence in their on-line bill pay application.
The Strength of System z
Satisfied users of IBM System z discuss the strength of the platform and how it helps transform their business to a more efficient model.
Marist College
Marist College, a comprehensive liberal arts institution in Poughkeepsie, New York, has gained a reputation as a trailblazer in virtualization and mainframe technologies by upgrading their IBM System z900 infrastructure to an IBM System z9.
Destination z
Members of the IBM Destination z community describe the benefits of mainframe technology, talk about the application and partner ecosystem that surrounds System z, and share their thoughts about the value of community.
King Mongkut's University in Bangkok, Thailand uses the power of Virtualization on System z to teach students valuable IT skills without the cost and footprint of multiple servers.
Customer name: King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT)
Industry: Higher Education
Hoplon Infotainment, a small Brazilian company, uses the power of DB2, Linux and the System z to create a new kind of massive multi-player on-line game.
Customer name: Hoplon Infotainment
Industry: Media & Entertainment
Nexxar reduces IT operating costs by 30% leveraging IFLs and DB2 on z/OS.
Customer name: NEXXAR Group
Industry: Financial Markets
Aurora Health Care simplifies information access for patients and employees by building a Web-based portal using IBM WebSphere technologies on an IBM System z Enterprise Class server.
Customer name: Aurora Health Care
Industry: Healthcare
IBM System z, as the enterprise hub, helps Hannaford address its supply chain needs of scalability, reliability and flexibility.
Customer name: Hannaford Bros. Co.
Industry: Retail
IBM mainframe helped Panasonic support its e-commerce site, introduce new promotions quickly and react effectively to unpredictable workloads.
Customer name: Panasonic Corporation of North America
Industry: Electronics
SunTrust utilized the scalability and flexibility of the IBM mainframe to provide systems that were available and responsive 24/7 for business decisions.
Customer name: SunTrust Bank
Industry: Banking
Japan's largest life insurance company relies on IBM mainframe for more efficient processing, reduced costs and a flexible platform for future business deployment.
Customer name: Nissay IT Technology
Industry: Life insurance
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First National Bank of Omaha takes a distributed environment back to the mainframe and gains reliability, scalability and a simplified infrastructure.
Customer name: First National Bank of Omaha
Industry: Banking and financial services
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Hewitt Associates depends on IBM mainframe to flexibly and securely handle its large, complex — and growing — workloads.
Customer name: Hewitt Associates
Industry: Professional services
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The Home Depot relies on the "non-stop architecture" of IBM mainframe to simplify its infrastructure, support critical business applications and provide on demand business benefits to its stores.
Customer name: The Home Depot
Industry: Retail
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IBK utilized the high security and resiliency of IBM mainframe to expand business growth and meet customers' demand for new banking services.
Customer name: Industrial Bank of Korea
Industry: Banking
Our partners speak
Kapow Technologies Stefan, Andreasen, Founder and CTO, talks about ability and modernization with System z and the benefit of centralizing on z as a sharable environment for web applications.
Partner name: Kapow Technologies
Industry: Computer Services
An IBM business partner based in Central Florida area, Strongback Consulting, focuses around helping customers modernize their enterprise, modernize applications, old green screen applications, getting those out and into new features, and new interfaces, whether it would be web services or the web.
Partner name: Strongback Consulting
Industry: Computer Services
"IBM's newest upgrades to the System z9 server platform continue to enhance an already superior platform for delivering WebFOCUS, our scalable Enterprise Business Intelligence solution. The development of the zIIP engine will give our customers one more way to optimize the configuration of their servers to the needs of the reporting and analysis applications we provide."
Partner name: Information Builders
Industry: Business Intelligence Software and Services