the ibm zenterprise system (zenterprise), announced in july 2010, with the z196 model, is designed to offer both mainframe and distributed server technologies in an integrated system. the zenterprise system consists of three components. first is a system z server. second is the ibm zenterprise bladecenter extension (zbx). last is the management layer, ibm zenterprise unified resource manager (zmanager), which provides a single management view of zenterprise resources. the zenterprise is designed to extend mainframe capabilities – management efficiency, dynamic resource allocation, serviceability – to other systems and workloads running on aix on power7, and microsoft windows or linux on x86.