IBM System z10

IBM System z10
	IBM System z10 EC Mainframe
Manufacturer	IBM
Product family	IBM Z
Type	Mainframe
Release date	2008
Discontinued	2011
Predecessor	IBM System z9
Successor	IBM zEnterprise System

IBM System z10 is a line of IBM mainframes. The z10 Enterprise Class (EC) was announced on February 26, 2008. On October 21, 2008, IBM announced the z10 Business Class (BC), a scaled-down version of the z10 EC. The System z10 represents the first model family powered by the z10 quad core processing engine. Its successors are the zEnterprise System models introduced in 2010 and 2012.