IBM has announced new Linux offerings for the System z mainframe which the company claims will help users run more efficient data centres that maximise the use of IT resources and reduce energy costs.

For clients currently running a distributed computing environment. IBM's new Enterprise Linux Server is a standalone system fully dedicated to running the Linux environment. With potential savings of up to 80 per cent, the new IBM Enterprise Linux Server provides attractive. off-the-shelf pricing with one of the industry's most powerful configurations for large-scale data centre consolidation on IBM System z. IBM is also offering a unique 'save-as-you-grow' pricing model, in which incremental capacity is priced significantly lower as the configuration size increases.

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