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    IBM Z

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AIBM Z is the company's mainframe enterprise server solution product line.N/A
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    IBM Z
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    IBM Z
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    IBM
    Chose IBM Z
    Cost, control and staffing for intensive, low or zero-downtime applications can be significantly less costly on Z.
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    These are not that effective when there is a lot of data, and the outage is more in other products as compared to the IBM Z. The processing Capabilities of the Z OS are much better than these products since, in my organization, the processing data is huge, and the IBM Z is best …
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    From an IBM Z Mainframe standpoint, there is no other platform that can even touch with the mainframe can do. This is why it is the best of breed and has been for over 60 years. There are a large number of third party products available for use on the mainframe. From job …
    Incentivized
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    There is no competitor when you really run a banking infrastructure with a CICS Transaction System, Cobol- or PL1- Programs and DB2 Databases running under the operating system z/OS. Also when you migrate your programs to JAVA z/OS is still the platform where you want to stay …
    Incentivized
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    No real competitor for large scale mainframe. iSeries can be used for mid-sized solutions.
    Incentivized
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    My answer is yes. This made moving to the cloud much easier. The main benefits of this are latency and data extraction. The speed, security and reliability is the game changer and where it stacks up when compared to other IBM products. Additionally, increasing the workload is …
    Incentivized
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    Was the natural choice of platform as it was driven by the application requirements
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    No one can deliver a Hardware Security Module with FIPS 140-2 Level 4 certification than IBM. And the value and ease of use in the IBM cloud with the Hyper Protect Crypto Service are just not compatible to the other vendors. And with Unified Key Orchestrator I can also manage …
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    IBM Power Systems has lot of benefits like IBM Z, with easier integration options to other systems.
    Incentivized
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    Its working was very slow. No free trails and we don't like it. That's why we switch on IBM Z.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Z
    We recenetly attepted to evaluate moving an application to the MicroFocus environment.
    The initial assessment failed because of cost.
    Incentivized
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    IBM Z is the best storage solution as it provides the best in class data protection with the cryptographic hardware keys, no loss in data while migration, and a user-friendly interface that makes it easy for develops to understand and has less of a learning curve. This makes it …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Z
    IBM/IMS Tools compare favorably in use and performance against other vendors such as BMC. We support both within all our mainframe/zOS products so our users have the flexibility to choose the tools that work best for them and their users and budgets.
    Incentivized
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    IBM Z is the winner when dealing with enormous transactions In terms of security as well IBM Z is a better option compared to other alternatives Excellent is dealing with large batch processing in multiple environments.
    Incentivized
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    There is no alternative to IBM Z available in the market when it comes to large volume server processing.
    Incentivized
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    When it comes to deploying enterprise applications requiring serious resources that cannot be constrained, IBM Z and IBM Power 9 do a great job. However, they are in different classes of service. For high powered applications, we rarely utilize Intel architectures because the …
    Incentivized
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    No other product have been used or evaluated.
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    We currently have both X Linux and Windows platforms. The Windows applications support some of the smaller business units within Highmark very well and Z is probably not a solution for those environments. X Linux won out over Z Linux due to the processor requirements of the …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Z
    Specifically, Storage products attached to IBM Z Mainframe Technology.
    Hitachi Direct Access Storage Devices seems not to have as many hardware failures as some other IBM DASD.
    EMC DLM8100 Technology is used to support our FEP Disaster Recovery plan as we support DRE for the …
    Incentivized
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    IBM Z is faster and more reliable, when compared to all of the other alternatives we evaluated. It's also great due to the ease of maintenance.
    Incentivized
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    IBM Z is a very powerful technology and it will only improve from here.
    Incentivized
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    I strictly work on IBM Z
    Incentivized
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    We believe in the right workload on the right platform. Z/OS is able to run more workloads than ever before and still with the lowest headcount required.
    Incentivized
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    These items are not really compatible at all, so the comparison is not really valid. A mainframe may access the network by using an ISR router, but an ISR router would not replace anything that the mainframe does. I am new to the technology field, so I have not worked with many …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Z
    IBM Z is our primary System of Record and, with many other platforms, of accessing data on the Z Server. There is no other comparable platform
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    User Ratings
    IBM Z
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.6
    (42 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)