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Macro 4 Boosts Speed-to-Market With IBM System z9 Business Class

Overview Established in 1968 in the UK, Macro 4 plc is now a global technology solutions provider with wholly-owned subsidiaries in Benelux, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the USA. The company wanted to prepare for deployment of new mainframe technologies at customer sites; manage rapid growth in demand for processing resources; improve time-to-market for new products; keep total cost of ownership low. The company worked with IBM and Thesaurus to install a new IBM System z9 Business Class (z9 BC) platform with two standard engines, one Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) engine, one IBM System z Application Assist Processor (zAAP) and one System z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP).

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Mainframes, Linux - Open Source, Linux Server OS

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