It's alive! IBM unveils its most powerful mainframe yet, which it says is fully engineered for the AI Age

It's alive! IBM unveils its most powerful mainframe yet, which it says is fully engineered for the AI Age

IBM has announced its latest mainframe, the z17, which finally brings Big Blue into the AI age.

IBM unveils z17 mainframe engineered for AI integration

IBM has announced the launch of IBM z17, a mainframe specifically designed for the AI era, integrating AI components across hardware, software, and systems operations. This new mainframe is driven by the IBM Telum II processor, allowing an expansion beyond traditional transactional AI capabilities to accommodate new types of workloads."With z17, we're bringing AI to the core of the enterprise with the software, processing power, and storage to m…

How Financial Services Companies Can Maintain Mainframes as COBOL Experts Retire

COBOL — short for common business-oriented language — isn’t going anywhere. Released in 1960 and standardized in 1968, COBOL was developed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages to handle business data processing needs, and it got the job done. More than 60 years later, COBOL remains the core of financial transactions and the foundation of enterprise mainframes. It supports more than 80% of in-person credit card sales and 95% of ATM transac…

There are moments in the technology in which everything seems to fit together – new infrastructure, smarter software, real business urgency and an innovation wave that is just waiting to reach its peak. As R&D leader who heads the entire BMC-AMI software development team, I can say: The introduction of IBM-z17 is one of these moments. It's more than just [...] The post Modern-Mainframe Moment: BMC-AMI and IBM-z17 set the bar higher first appeare…

IBM's quantum computer will be launched next autumn, in the new Ikerbasque building in San Sebastian. It will be the sixth in the world, and the...

IBM z17: The first mainframe fully engineered for the AI Age | CXO Insight Middle East

IBM has announced the IBM z17, the next generation of the company’s iconic mainframe, fully engineered with AI capabilities across hardware, software, and systems operations. Powered by the new IBM Telum II processor, IBM z17 expands the system’s capabilities beyond transactional AI capabilities to enable new workloads. IBM Z is built to redefine AI at scale, positioning enterprises to score 100% of their transactions in real-time.1 z17 enables …