IBM Service Management Center for System z

The new IBM Service Management Center for System z® (SMCz) turns the mainframe into an enterprise-wide service management hub, centrally managing business and IT services across mainframes and distributed environments.

The IBM Service Management Center for System z is the answer to traditional mainframe management tools that were not designed for today’s heterogeneous environments and are typically limited in the number of operating system platforms they support. IBM SMCz removes those limits and opens up an organization’s options and flexibility for hosting a centralized service management hub.

IBM SMCz is based on the IBM Service Management Strategy, which in turn is based on IBM’s industry-leading systems management solutions. By enabling performance management and automation of the entire IT infrastructure, these solutions allow organizations to standardize service delivery and management processes with ITIL and best practices.

IBM SMCz extends IBM Service Management to the mainframe world, strategically exploiting System z as the integrated, enterprise-wide hub to better manage end-to-end all business – and IT – services. SMCz gives IT the superior visibility, control and automation needed to efficiently and effectively deliver business services over the entire IT infrastructure.

For the first time, with the IBM SMCz advanced and tightly integrated software portfolio, the System z mainframe assumes a major enterprise-wide role as the hub for managing and automating end-to-end business services.

With its support of Linux and a rich set of management solutions, System z is already an ideal platform to house new applications and workloads. Now coupling its renowned strengths (scalability, flexibility and reliability) with the rich set of solutions from IBM SMCz, System z becomes the most compelling platform for housing new technologies such as SOA, Virtualization, Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing.