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Why zSeries for business resiliency?
In today's on demand environment, downtime is not only unwelcome—it's costly. If your applications aren't consistently available, your business suffers. The damage can extend well beyond the financial realm into key areas of customer loyalty, market competitiveness and regulatory compliance. High on the list of critical business requirements today is the need to keep applications up and running in the event of planned or unplanned disruptions to your systems.

Our leadership in delivering world-class application availability and overall business resiliency has been 40 years in the making. No other computing platform has integrated availability-enhancing features throughout its architecture as long as or as thoroughly as zSeries. And no one is better able to bring availability technologies to your IT infrastructure.

IBM eServer zSeries business resiliency solutions help you to:

Enable superior levels of application availability thanks to innovative hardware features and the recovery capabilities of the z/OS operating system.
Reduce downtime from hours to seconds.
Dynamically and automatically reallocate resources to meet the demands placed on your applications.
Provision new virtual servers in minutes to handle shifting workloads, with Linux running under the z/VM operating system.
Keep system failures invisible to employees, partners and customers, with dynamic disk-swapping capabilities that keep applications and data available.

Customer success stories

Learn how companies all over the world, across a wide range of industries, are realising the value of zSeries business resiliency solutions:

	IBM helps Chinatrust Commercial Bank protect against disaster (U.S.) The bank's remote data center now has the ability to dynamically take over and protect its critical daily transaction workload of millions of dollars in the event of an emergency.

	Lawson Products—Consolidating on the Mainframe: a Cost-Effective Path to Resiliency (U.S.) Lawson's answer to competitve pressures was to develop a consolidated technology infrastructure that delivered high levels of resiliency while keeping costs down.

	Grupo Banco Popular rejuvenates its systems and services (U.S.) As part of its Parallel Sysplex project, the bank deployed Internal Coupling Facility Duplexing. This zSeries exclusive helps ensure that the new environment can meet the goals for resilience through the addition of just a single server.

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