Preface; Authors - IBM z13s Technical Manual

Preface

Digital business has been driving the transformation of underlying information technology (IT)
infrastructure to be more efficient, secure, adaptive, and integrated. IT must be able to handle
the explosive growth of mobile clients and employees. It also must be able to process
enormous amounts of data to provide deep and real-time insights to help achieve the greatest
business impact.
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IBM z13s server. IBM z Systems servers are the trusted enterprise platform for integrating
data, transactions, and insight. A data-centric infrastructure must always be available with a
99.999% or better availability, have flawless data integrity, and be secured from misuse. It
needs to be an integrated infrastructure that can support new applications. It also needs to
have integrated capabilities that can provide new mobile capabilities with real-time analytics
delivered by a secure cloud infrastructure.
IBM z13s servers are designed with improved scalability, performance, security, resiliency,
availability, and virtualization. The superscalar design allows z13s servers to deliver a record
level of capacity over the prior single frame z Systems server. In its maximum configuration,
the z13s server is powered by up to 20 client characterizable microprocessors (cores) running
at 4.3 GHz. This configuration can run more than 18,000 millions of instructions per second
(MIPS) and up to 4 TB of client memory. The IBM z13s Model N20 is estimated to provide up
to 100% more total system capacity than the IBM zEnterprise® BC12 Model H13.
This book provides information about the IBM z13s server and its functions, features, and
associated software support. Greater detail is offered in areas relevant to technical planning.
It is intended for systems engineers, consultants, planners, and anyone who wants to
understand the IBM z Systems™ functions and plan for their usage. It is not intended as an
introduction to mainframes. Readers are expected to be generally familiar with existing IBM
z Systems technology and terminology.

Authors

This book was produced by a team working at the International Technical Support
Organization, Poughkeepsie Center.
Octavian Lascu is a Senior IT Consultant for IBM Romania with over 25 years of IT
experience. He specializes in designing, implementing, and supporting complex IT
infrastructure environments (cloud, systems, storage, and networking), including high
availability and disaster recovery solutions and high-performance computing deployments. He
has developed materials for and taught over 50 workshops for technical audiences around the
world. He has written several IBM Redbook and IBM Redpaper™ publications.
Barbara Sannerud is a Worldwide Technical Enablement Manager for the IBM z Systems
platform. She has 30 years of experience in services, strategy, marketing, and product
management. Before her current role, she was Offering Manager for IBM z/OS®, and also
held competitive marketing roles. She holds math and MBA degrees and joined IBM from the
software and professional services industries where she specialized in performance, systems
management, and security.
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