On a smarter planet, nearly everything computes. Things no one would recognize as computers: home appliances, cars, roads, clothes, even rivers and cornfields now have built in intelligence. But truly realizing the promise of a smarter planet will require more than adding intelligence to everything. We also have to make computing itself smarter. To achieve the goal of smarter computing, successful companies are taking a new approach to designing their IT infrastructures to create new opportunities. These forward thinking organizations are designing, tuning and managing their IT infrastructure to make it designed for data, tuned to the task, and managed in the cloud. And as a result these companies are poised to make breakthroughs in efficiency that allow them to turn to the task of real business innovation. The IBM zEnterprise System is the ideal platform for Smarter Computing. In this session we will discuss how System z can be the best fit for purpose platform for consolidating your enterprise infrastructure, for adopting cloud computing and for providing a complete solution for business and predictive analytics on one platform.