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Dundee City Council Chooses IBM System z9 Business Class

Overview As a public body, Dundee City Council is under constant pressure to do more with its budgets, and this is particularly true for the IT department. The Council wanted to consolidate servers and reduce software licensing costs; introduce full disaster recovery capabilities; make more effective use of IT budget through centralisation of resources and management. The Council introduced IBM System z9 Business Class (BC) server running Linux under z/VM, moved existing IBM eServer zSeries 890 server to second site; now running more than 40 enterprise applications on Linux virtual servers across the two mainframes; implemented two IBM TotalStorage DS6800 servers and IBM Metro Mirror software.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	HTML
Date Published	August 2006
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Disaster Recovery

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