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What is VirtualZ Computing (VirtualZ)?
VirtualZ Computing is a mainframe software company. Our product enables mainframe clouds, automates mainframe optimization, and...
What is zWaaS™ IBM Z Workload as a Service?
zWaaS™ stands for IBM Z Workload as a Service. This foundational technology from VirtualZ allows you to redirect eligible...
Can you explain your cloud approach?
We believe this is one of our biggest differentiators. Today, “mainframe cloud” is most akin to outsourcing, in which an entire...
What if my environment has only one mainframe?
Customers with a single mainframe are good candidates for VirtualZ’s cloud solutions, allowing you to offload processing and...
What kind of product is a good candidate for VirtualZ?
VirtualZ is generally able to redirect any product that meets the following requirements: It can be executed as a batch job,...
How would I start evaluating if VirtualZ is right for me?
We created a VirtualZ Savings Guide to outline ways to look at your environment with a fresh perspective with the goal of...
What impact does IBM’s Tailored Fit Pricing Model have on VirtualZ?
IBM’s Tailored Fit (TF) pricing, announced in May 2019, is a notable advancement of IBM’s monthly license charge model. However,...
How does VirtualZ work?
When a user initiates an application that VirtualZ has been configured to manage (such as a COBOL compiler), VirtualZ intercepts...
What about security?
Security is paramount, and VirtualZ ensures that users cannot gain additional privileges or access as a result of our...
What are the data considerations?
Naturally, if a job is redirected from one system to another, the data that job needs in order to execute properly must be...
What is the impact to my users?
Our software is masked from your end users: they just submit the same thing they’ve always submitted, no changes needed. The...
What is the installation process?
Our installation process is designed to be simple and straightforward. Start up VirtualZ and everything is dynamically...
What operating systems does VirtualZ support?
VirtualZ is a software product for the IBM z/OS operating system. It requires z/OS Version 2.1 or higher with JES2 and a TCP/IP...
How do you compare to BMC Subsystem Optimizer?
While we are both focused on cost reduction, we’re solving different problems of what drives mainframe costs. We are focused on...
How do you compare to Compuware ThruPut Manager?
While we are both focused on batch workloads and cost reduction, our focus is cost reduction by redirection to other, lower-cost...
Do you support z/OS UNIX Services (“USS”)?
Yes, VirtualZ supports redirection of UNIX-style executables invoked under the z/OS UNIX Services shell or via z/OS UNIX...
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