Would you rather plow a field with 1 Ox or 1000 Chickens?
May 01, 2019

Would you rather plow a field with 1 Ox or 1000 Chickens?

Dan Hines | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Z

IBM Z is being used by the entire organization to support everything from package tracking, to billing, and even airline operations. IBM Z provides a high availability solution. Minimal to no downtime and high transactional throughput is mandatory.
  • High availability with no downtime.
  • Concurrent software and firmware.
  • Performance to support millions of transactions a day.
  • Overall hardware Cost is expensive.
  • Overall software cost is expensive.
  • Personnel with Z technical skills are hard to acquire.
  • Personnel costs and Labor costs are lower on Z.
  • Uptime and MTBF are much better on Z saving applications outages and support costs.
  • Z Server saves on Data center costs due to server sprawl.
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
If you need to run a hIghly available system that supports CICS, DB2, WAS and MQ z/OS, then Z Server is a great platform. Also, being capable of running Linux workloads is a big benefit.