One of the most sophisticated computer systems ever built, the new z13 mainframe from IBM delivers scale and economics together with real-time encryption and analytics to help meet the expectations of consumers for speed and safety for trillions of transactions in the mobile economy. The z13 system culminates a $1 billion investment, 5 years of development, exploits the innovation of more than 500 new patents, and is the result of collaboration with more than 60 clients.
The z13 mainframe is the first system able to process 2.5 billion transactions a day; is the first system to make practical real-time encryption of all mobile transactions at any scale; and is the first mainframe system with embedded analytics providing real-time insights on all transactions.
“Every time a consumer makes a purchase or hits refresh on a smart phone, it can create a cascade of events on the back end of the computing environment. The z13 is designed to handle billions of transactions for the mobile economy. Only the IBM mainframe can put the power of the world's most secure datacenters in the palm of your hand," said Tom Rosamilia, Senior Vice President, IBM Systems. "Consumers expect fast, easy and secure mobile transactions. The implication for business is the creation of a secure, high performance infrastructure with sophisticated analytics."
The z13 also includes new support for Hadoop, enabling unstructured data to be analyzed in the system. Other analytics advances include faster acceleration of queries by adding DB2 BLU for Linux providing an in-memory database, enhancements to the IBM DB2 analytics accelerator, and improved performance for mathematically intense analytics workloads.
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