Cybersecurity is the most important arm of defense against cyberattacks. With the recent increase in cyberattacks, corporations must focus on how they are combating these new high-tech threats. When establishing best practices, a corporation must focus on employees' access to specific workspaces and information. IBM Z® focuses on allowing high processing virtual environments while maintaining a high level of security in each workspace. Organizations not only need to adjust their approach to security, but also their approach to IT environments. To meet new customer needs and expectations, organizations must take a more agile approach to their business. IBM® Z allows companies to work with hybrid and multi-cloud environments that allows more ease of use for the user and efficiency overall. Working with IBM Z, organizations can also work with many databases that are included in IBM Cloud Pak® for Data. IBM Cloud Pak for Data allows organizations to make more informed decisions with improved data usage. Along with the improved data usage, organizations can see the effects from working in a Red Hat OpenShift environment. Red Hat OpenShift is compatible across many hardware services and allows the user to run applications in the most efficient manner. The purpose of this IBM Redbooks® publication is to: Introduce IBM Z and LinuxONE platforms and how they work with the Red Hat OpenShift environment and IBMCloud Pak for Data Provide examples and the uses of IBM Z with Cloud Paks for Data that show data gravity, consistent development experience, and consolidation and business resiliency The target audience for this book is IBM Z Technical Specialists, IT Architects, and System Administrators.

Digital business has been driving the transformation of underlying IT infrastructure to be more efficient, secure, adaptive, and integrated. Information Technology (IT) must be able to handle the explosive growth of mobile clients and employees. IT also must be able to use enormous amounts of data to provide deep and real-time insights to help achieve the greatest business impact. This IBM® Redbooks® publication addresses the new IBM Mainframe, the IBM z13. The IBM z13 is 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 needs to have integrated capabilities that can provide new mobile capabilities with real-time analytics delivered by a secure cloud infrastructure. IBM z13 is designed with improved scalability, performance, security, resiliency, availability, and virtualization. The superscalar design allows the z13 to deliver a record level of capacity over the prior z Systems. In its maximum configuration, z13 is powered by up to 141 client characterizable microprocessors (cores) running at 5 GHz. This configuration can run more than 110,000 millions of instructions per second (MIPS) and up to 10 TB of client memory. The IBM z13 Model NE1 is estimated to provide up to 40% more total system capacity than the IBM zEnterprise® EC12 (zEC1) Model HA1. This book provides information about the IBM z13 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.

This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces the IBM z13™. IBM z13 delivers a data and transaction system reinvented as a system of insight for digital business. IBM z Systems™ leadership is extended with these features: Improved ability to meet service level agreements with new processor chip technology that includes simultaneous multithreading, analytical vector processing, redesigned and larger cache, and enhanced accelerators for hardware compression and cryptography Better availability and more efficient use of critical data with up to 10 TB available redundant array of independent memory (RAIM) Validation of transactions, management, and assignment of business priority for SAN devices through updates to the I/O subsystem Continued management of heterogeneous workloads with IBM z BladeCenter Extension (zBX) Model 004 and IBM z Unified Resource Manager This Redbooks publication can help you become familiar with the z Systems platform, and understand how the platform can help integrate data, transactions, and insight for faster and more accurate business decisions. This book explains how, with innovations and traditional strengths, IBM z13 can play an essential role in today's IT environments, and satisfy the demands for cloud deployments, analytics, mobile, and social applications in a trustful, reliable, and secure environment with operations that lessen business risk.