Digital transformation creates new opportunities for IT, but it also creates new challenges. Organizations are looking for ways to unlock the potential of artificial intelligence to proactively respond to an increase in cyberattacks and unplanned events that could impact business resilience. Companies want to increase mobility to increase value and protect investments in hybrid cloud environments.

Innovations at the core of the new IBM z16 mainframe will help unlock the untapped potential of digital transformation. The Telum Processor powers the platform with industry-first built-in accelerators for AI-assisted prediction and automation with unprecedented speed, scalability, and extremely low latency. The system can process 25 billion secure transactions per day, provides automated compliance that saves time and resources, and capacity options that can avoid disruptions, managing workloads across different sites. The platform supports open-standards, flexible consumption models and easy, rapid integration as part of the hybrid cloud.

AI is designed to make more informed decisions quickly and at scale. Embedding AI directly into an enterprise's transactional workloads will help gather business insights that can mean the difference between a revenue opportunity and a financial loss through fraudulent activity. This can help prevent fraud and thereby prevent financial losses.

The system has built-in cryptography and secure boot to protect the integrated software with no changes required. The system supports pervasive encryption and IBM Z Cyber Vault solution, which enables rapid recovery from ransomware attacks with a trusted copy of data using EAL5-certified air-gap separation of compute and storage infrastructure.

Continuous availability is critical, particularly when it comes to a disaster-recovery strategy. The IBM Z Flexible Capacity for Cyber Resiliency on IBM z16 solution enables clients to transfer capacity within seconds between different data centers for disaster recovery, regulatory compliance, maintenance and other business needs. The IBM Z System Recovery Boost solution further improves availability by accelerating the recovery time from planned and unplanned outages by using all available processor resources during system shutdown and restart. This feature has now been expanded to include faster IBM middleware restart and other system components.

IBM z16 contains new capabilities in the IBM Z Security and Compliance Center solution to enable compliance to regulatory guidelines more easily and productively. Audit preparation times can be reduced by as much as 40% and require fewer staff. A user-friendly dashboard enables to generate audit reports easily and quickly and helps ensure ongoing compliance, which reduces the likelihood of regulatory penalties.

Customers now have the option to improve efficiency with the ability to tie cost to value by optimizing hybrid cloud deployments. With the IBM z16, you can achieve a lower 5-year total cost of ownership (TCO) and up to 2.5 times more value than a public cloud-only approach. The IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Stack solution provides a flexible and integrated platform to support IBM z/OS system-based cloud-native development, application and data modernization, and infrastructure automation.

With familiar toolsets and enterprise DevOps always available in the hybrid cloud, companies can unlock new paths to innovation. Developers can now use these tools on prem or on the IBM Cloud with the ability to deploy an z/OS development or test environment on-demand in just 6 minutes. With the IBM z16, upgrading is faster and at lower cost and risk than migrating to the public cloud. Integration with new services using Red Hat OpenShift or other Linux distributions, together with IBM z16, allows you to get 3.6 times fewer cores than required with x86 remote connection.

For more information about purchasing the z16 platform, as well as other IBM solutions, please contact ibm@muk.group.