Preface Authors xv ' Copyright IBM Corp. 2 017. All rights reserved. This IBMfi Redbooksfi publication describes the new member of the IBM Zfi $^{ }$family, IBM  z14™. IBM z14 is the trusted enterprise platform for pervasive encryption, integrating data,  transactions, and insights into the data.  A data-centric infrastructure must always be available with a 99.999% or better availability,  have flawless data integrity, and be secured from misuse. It also must be an integrated  infrastructure that can support new applications. Finally, it must have integrated capabilities  that can provide new mobile capabilities with real-time analytics that are delivered by a secure  cloud infrastructure. IBM z14 servers are designed with improved scalability, performance, security, resiliency,  availability, and virtualization. The superscalar design allows z14 servers to deliver a record  level of capacity over the prior IBM Z platforms. In its maximum configuration, z14 is powered  by up to 170 client characterizable microprocessors (cores) running at 5.2 GHz. This  configuration can run more than 146,000 million instructions per second (MIPS) and up to  32 TB of client memory. The IBM z14 Model M05 is estimated to provide up to 35% more total  system capacity than the IBM z13fi Model NE1. This Redbooks publication provides information about IBM z14 and its functions, features,  and associated software support. More information is offered in areas that are relevant to  technical planning. It is intended for systems engineers, consultants, planners, and anyone  who wants to understand the IBM Z servers functions and plan for their usage. It is  not intended as an introduction to mainframes. Readers are expected to be generally familiar with  existing IBM Z technology and terminology. This book was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working at the  International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center. Octavian Lascu  is a Senior IT Consultant for IBM Romania with over 25 years of experience.  He specializes in designing, implementing, and supporting complex IT infrastructure  environments (systems, storage, and networking), including high availability and disaster  recovery solutions and high-performance computing deployments. He has developed  materials for and taught workshops for technical audiences around the world for the past 19  years. He has written several IBM publications. Hervey Kamga  is an IBM Z Product Engineer with the EMEA I/O Connectivity Team in  Montpellier, France. Before serving in his current role, he was a Support Engineer and  Engineer On Site for 13 years with Sun MicroSystems and Oracle in EMEA. Hervey’s areas of  expertise include Oracle Solaris (Operating System and hardware products), virtualization  (VMware, virtualBox), Linux (Ubuntu), and IBM Z I/O features and protocols (IBM FICONfi  and OSA).