IBM zSystems pricing solutions
Leverage the business value of flexible and predictable pricing for IBM zSystems with Tailored Fit Pricing model
Overview
Respond quickly, keep cost aligned to revenue
As you journey to a hybrid cloud, fluctuating business needs can make it difficult for you to predict demand for IT services. To meet the constantly changing workloads, you need flexibility to scale up or down while balancing your IT expenses with the value it delivers.
With Tailored Fit Pricing for IBM zSystems®, you can take advantage of a flexible, cloud-like consumption-based pricing option, available across both software and hardware, for on-premises computing.
The new IBM zSystems pricing model delivers unmatched simplicity and predictability of pricing in a constantly evolving hybrid cloud era. It helps improve readiness to meet unpredictable demands in a cost-effective way, on the most securable and reliable platform.
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Tailored Fit Pricing options
Simple, flexible and predictable cloud-like pricing
Tailored Fit Pricing is a flexible pricing model that dramatically simplifies the existing pricing landscape through cloud-like, software and hardware consumption-based pricing options for on-premises computing.
Explore the options:
Software Consumption Solution
Cloud-like, usage-based software licensing model.
Hardware Consumption Solution
Cloud-like, always-on usage-based hardware capacity window.
Development and Test Solution
An always-on, cost-competitive, high-capacity z/OS® environment.
Enterprise Capacity Solution
Licensing model that offers simple software pricing.
New Application Solution
Predictable and value transparency with consumption pricing for new z/OS® apps.
Hear from customers
Z delivers the resiliency, security and agility we need to make sure that our millions of customers can access our services anywhere, anytime, using any device.
— Waldemar Ruggiero Jr.,
Executive GM, Banco Bradesco
Tailored Fit Pricing is helping us optimize the cost to run the platform so we can utilize it to its maximum potential while being able to respond to unpredictable demands.
— Trirat Suwanprateeb,
SVP and CTO, Siam Commercial Bank PCL
With Tailored Fit Pricing, we don’t have to worry about predicting demand anymore. Instead, we can leave capacity on—and pay only for what we use.
– Terry Glover,
Director of Infrastructure, Dillard’s
Pricing resources
Software licensing
Explore the licensing terms and conditions for IBM software products that run on the mainframe.
Software pricing tools
Use these toolkits to get started with selected pricing options.
Other pricing resources
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Talk to us
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