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Security Advantages of IBM System z9 and Virtualization on z/VM

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Overview As part of a larger series of papers on the position of mainframe technology in the current IT market, this paper considers the importance of security in the decision process for organizations that may not be traditional mainframe environments, but are now considering System z as part of larger strategies within an increasingly compliance-oriented marketplace. This white paper is focused on the security benefits of virtualization on the IBM System z9 Business Class (BC) processors combined with the z/VM Operating System. This combination is an excellent platform for hosting hundreds of Linux images in virtual machines on a single System z, either as a stand-alone Linux consolidation server, or with Linux images on the same servers with the z/OS mainframe operating systems.

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Publisher	Sine Nomine Associates	File Format	PDF
Date Published	February 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Mainframes, Security Management, Virtualization

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