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IBM boosts zEnterprise mainframe portfolio

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Building on decades of technology leadership in enterprise computing, IBM unveiled its new zEnterprise BC12 (zBC12) mainframe designed for the latest in analytics, cloud, and mobile computing. Starting at USD $75,000, IBM is making the most secure and technologically advanced enterprise server attractive to organizations of all sizes.

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With this news, IBM also adds new industry solutions and enhanced software and operating systems across its zEnterprise portfolio to help clients better serve their customers. Using these innovations, banks can deliver new mobile banking services, insurance companies can prevent payment of fraudulent claims, and government agencies can interact and serve citizens using new applications in the cloud.

"Analytics, cloud and mobile computing are changing the way businesses in all industries engage with their customers," said Sreenath Chary, country leader, System z, IBM India South Asia, "IBM's zEnterprise technologies address these challenges by providing clients with a powerful and highly secure platform to manage new and emerging workloads, helping speed time to market, reduce costs and stimulate business growth by making stronger connections with customers."

The new zBC12 provides clients with unprecedented levels of performance, flexibility and scale. It boasts a faster processor at 4.2 GHz and two times the available memory over its predecessor, the z114; and, it allows clients to grow into their system with a pay-as-you-grow approach.

When integrated with IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator, the zBC12 can perform business analytics workloads with response times up to nine times faster, 10 times better price performance, and 14 percent lower total cost of acquisition than the closest competitor. For cloud computing, the zBC12 can consolidate up to 40 virtual servers per core or up to 520 in a single footprint for as low as $1.00 per day, per virtual server. A single zBC12 can save clients up to 55 percent over x86 distributed environments.