Many shops especially IBM's largest customers have requirements that are met by the new zEC12. There are significant costs savings possible.
They can save money by consolidating multiple footprints using the increased capacity and meeting performance challenges. Some applications are limited to a single unit of work but are still very important to customers so faster processors are important in order to keep up with growth. - 25% faster processors yielding 50% more capacity in a single footprint with up to 101 customer usable cores. Software savings derived from a decrease in MLC rates can help offset price increases and growing software costs from usage http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=an&subtype=ca&appname=gpateam&supplier=877&letternum=ENUSZP12-0416 New technology Flash Express memory offers significant promise to eliminate I/O and reduce CPU cycles improve throughput for the workloads that can benefit looks like large page exploiters and dumping for diagnostic data capture right away. Everything old is new again seems like Expanded Storage but the cost has been advertised as dramatically lower than central storage and with up to 6.4TB and a relatively short instruction path to get their compared even to SSD disk you can see some interesting applications beyond what is already coming. A cost of $125K for 1.6TB of Flash Express was mentioned in today's post announcement chat room but I have not seen that confirmed yet so am very interested to see more detailed pricing. If IBM is investing significant ($1B) amounts of money in R&D you would expect they are doing it to benefit customers who have needs they are willing to pay to meet. Those same customers are investing in staying current on z/OS to protect their investment. What else do you expect them to do? Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO System z Team Leader mailto:sknut...@geico.com (office) 301.986.3574 (cell) 301.996.1318 "Think big, act bold, start simple, grow fast..." -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of August Carideo Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 1:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment and it fits very few environments running now ( other then up-to-date Z/os shops ) and eliminated ESCON there would have to be major lic cost saving to even look into this, which I did not see mentioned From: shai hess <shai.h...@gmail.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 08/28/2012 01:31 PM Subject: Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Why IBM manufacture new MF? Any new customers using MF or any increasing MF processing? ==================== This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this email/fax is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all paper and electronic copies of the original message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
