Linux on System z Case Studies
Marist College is a private liberal arts college based in Poughkeepsie, New York. Marist College needed to provide business analytics capabilities and the supporting computing resources to students, faculty, businesses and other institutions while reducing administration time and costs. Working with IBM, Marist College implemented an IBM SmartCloud solution to use its existing cloud environment to support business analytics and to enable fast provisioning of computing resources for research and educational projects requiring these analytics capabilities. The IBM solution reduced administration time and expenses to support business analytics, provided analytics capabilities to students, faculty, businesses and other institutions, and saved $350,000 by using its cloud infrastructure to support its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Access the case study here.
Eurocontrol is an intergovernmental air traffic management organization funded by 39 European member states and employing around 2,500 people. Eurocontrol manages the Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (MUAC). In turn, MUAC’s 700 employees provide upper airspace air traffic control services for over 1.5 million flights above north-west Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg each year – making it the second busiest control center in Europe. Air traffic management organization Eurocontrol MUAC wanted to maintain safe, secure and cost-effective air traffic control (ATC) support services in an increasingly busy airspace. The organization migrated critical applications to a private cloud based on the IBM zEnterprise 196 and integrated IBM BladeCenter servers – ensuring high availability for business support applications. This has enabled rapid development of new applications which increase safety and efficiency of ATC operations as flight numbers grow, and creates a cost-effective, environmentally-friendly cloud infrastructure. Access the case study here.