Smarter Education

Smarter Education: Transforming IT Delivery into Higher Education with zEnterprise

zEnterprise can form the basis of a whole new way of delivering the complex solutions necessary to run the modern university in the UK today.
It also offers the potential for significant cost savings whilst delivering equally impressive space, energy and heat savings.

This section offers you a fantastic opportunity to access information on what business value this offers to your organisation and how IBM has helped Universities become more efficient in their operations and been able to provide an exceptional student experience creating differentiation and competitive advantage in a challenging and rapidly changing marketplace.

You will find information on how IBM helped organisations like you in Higher Education to:

• Provide more students with more choice and flexibility through cloud enabled services
• Create Virtual Leaning Environments for collaborated working and distance learning programs
• Research data management, mining and analyses
• Track and manage student experience and performance
• Make significant savings through consolidating infrastructure and centralising operations across the institution
• Increase return on IT asset investment and reduce infrastructure and operational costs

You will also find information on how IBM helped organisations like you in Higher Education to deploy zEnterprise Linux Solution – offering the ability to deliver on-going cost savings, competitive differentiation and better Service to your business and customers i.e:

• Saving opportunities in software costs through fewer licenses - e.g. up to 80% reduction in Oracle licensing costs.
• Lower acquisition and operations costs of hardware and software vs. distributed servers – up to 60% less than Intel
• Reduce floor space by up to 90% compared to distributed servers
• Reduce labour costs by up to 70% compared to distributed servers
• Workload/infrastructure consolidation capability
• Create and deploy virtual Linux servers in minutes
• Large-scale virtual growth instead of physical expansion on x86 or RISC servers
• Reduced IT complexity
• Near 100% utilisation
• Rock-solid system security, Multi Tenanted platform with ensured isolation and protection