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BCBS Minnesota achieves a significant TCO reduction by virtualizing SAP applications on IBM System z

Working with IBM and SAP, BCBSM consolidated 40 HP Intel-architecture servers to a single IBM System z server with IBM Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) engines. The SAP ERP applications run in a virtualized SUSE Linux environment. The IBM DB2 database supporting the SAP a...
11 Jan 2010
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BCBS Minnesota achieves a significant TCO reduction with virtualized Linux on IBM System z

IBM helped BCBSM consolidate 140 Intel servers to one IBM System z with six Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) engines. Key applications now run in virtualized Linux servers, and IBM DB2 databases run under z/OS on the same machine.
28 Dec 2009