Getting up to Speed on IBM Z and LinuxONE

IBM Z and LinuxONE Offerings from IBM Systems Lab Services

Seeing Is Believing

A Spanish insurance company that wanted to migrate to new IBM Z hardware recently sought help from IBM Systems Lab Services to analyze its mainframe performance to properly size and configure the new hardware. Our team provided a technical assessment and delivered a report of its findings that gave the company confidence about moving forward with its upgrade.



A European manufacturer looking to do a major refresh of its infrastructure engaged Lab Services for implementation and migration help, and our support assured the company in the best approach to refreshing its hardware environment.

Lab Services recently worked with a European bank that was interested in implementing pervasive encryption to address security regulations. After collecting data onsite, we delivered a findings report detailing the readiness of its hardware, eligibility of its data sets for encryption and the impact on processing speeds.



A U.S. state government agency likewise wanted to take advantage of pervasive encryption but needed to understand if there were any gaps in its existing infrastructure. The Pervasive Encryption Readiness Assessment gave it a tailored implementation plan aligned to IBM best practices so it could move forward with pervasive encryption confidently.

A global insurance business wanted to enable its IBM Z platform for cloud and invited Lab Services to help plan and launch its private cloud. The IBM Z cloud implementation was successful, and cloud automation significantly reduced the time to delivery of its servers.



A Japanese telecommunication company needed to replace its existing infrastructure with a highly available, flexible platform and opted for a solution of IBM Z with an IBM private hybrid cloud solution. Lab Services presented a methodology for migrating to the cloud solution, giving the company confidence in how to go about its infrastructure transformation to an IBM Z cloud environment.

A rapidly growing Vietnamese bank was facing a host of challenges with its existing hardware and decided to move to IBM LinuxONE. With the help of Lab Services’ Jump Start service, it was able to quickly get on board with new hardware that can scale to meet its growth needs.



A Mexican financial institution was in the process of making substantial hardware and software changes to help with security regulation compliance, and it had decided to move from a competing solution to LinuxONE. Our team worked side by side with the company to install and configure its new servers, getting it up and running quickly and providing skills training to help it get the most from its new infrastructure.