IBM New Mainframe System z13 and z-Linux

IBM's new mainframe provides unprecedented new capabilities, including: 

z13 is the first system able to process 2.5 billion transactions a day - equivalent of 100 Cyber Mondays every day of the year.  z13 transactions are persistent, protected and auditable from end-to-end, adding assurance as mobile transactions grow -- estimated to grow to 40 trillion mobile transactions per day by 2025. [1]



z13 is the first system to make practical real-time encryption of all mobile transactions at any scale.  z13 speeds real-time encryption of mobile transactions to help protect the transaction data and ensure response times consistent with a positive customer experience.  The system includes 500 new patents including cryptographic encryption technologies that enable more security features for mobile initiated transactions.



z13 is the first mainframe system with embedded analytics providing real-time insights on all transactions. This capability can help guarantee the ability of the client to run real-time fraud detection on 100 percent of their business transactions [2]
The rapid growth of mobile applications has created consumers who expect mobile transactions to be fast and seamless – regardless of which mobile payment platform, retailer, or financial organization is providing the service. As a result, businesses are being forced to evaluate whether their IT infrastructures can support mobile applications that meet and exceed these consumer expectations -- or face the potential of losing clients to competing businesses.

 “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."




z13 Helps with Secure, Trusted Mobile Transactions

As mobile adoption grows, consumers are driving exponentially larger numbers of mobile transactions. Each of these mobile transactions triggers a cascade of events across computing systems. These events include comparisons to past purchases, data encryption and decryption, bank-to-bank reconciliations, and customer loyalty discounts. This cascade of events causes a so-called “starburst effect” – where a single transaction can trigger as few as four or as many as 100 additional system interactions.

Consequently, the starburst effect can create security vulnerabilities at each interaction point. In fact, 71 percent of CIOs and IT managers surveyed by IBM indicated that security is their most significant mobile enterprise challenge. [3] With data and transactions under constant threat from multiple points of attack, consumers want to know that their mobile transactions are as secure as financial data held by banks.



When combined with IBM MobileFirst solutions, the z13 delivers enhanced performance, availability, analytics and security that will drive optimal mobile user experiences.  IBM MobileFirst Platform enables organizations to deliver better, more secure apps. IBM MobileFirst Protect delivers seamless security and end-to-end management of clients' infrastructure and all its devices, apps, content and transactions.

Providing Insight with Every Transaction

The z13 features the world’s fastest microprocessor, 2X faster than the most common server processors, 300 percent more memory, 100 percent more bandwidth and vector processing analytics to speed mobile transactions. As a result, the z13 transaction engine is capable of analyzing transactions in “real time” and will be able to help prevent fraud as it is occurring, allowing financial institutions to halt the transaction before the consumer is impacted. IBM has designed the z13 to integrate real-time scoring and guarantees this capability as a feature of the system. This scoring can be used for fraud detection on 100 percent of a client's business transactions. [4]

In addition to assistance with fraud prevention, businesses looking to enhance their customer loyalty programs will be able to use new z13 capabilities to add more personalization by gaining a real-time view of a client's purchasing habits to offer up-sell and cross-sell promotions before they leave the store -- and in some cases before they even enter.
Businesses today don’t have the ability to analyze 100 percent of a consumer's transaction. With the z13, businesses will be able to use IBM's predictive analytics modeling technology, SPSS, and personalize the transaction as it occurs.
The z13 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 vastly improved performance for mathematically intense analytics workloads.

The z13 is the ideal private or hybrid cloud architecture, legendary for its ability to scale and reliably and securely handle multiple workloads. In a scale-out model, it is capable of running up to 8,000 virtual servers -- more than 50 virtual servers per core, helping to lower software, energy and facilities costs.
The z13 lowers the cost of running cloud. For compared environments, it is estimated that a z Systems cloud on a z13 will have a 32 percent lower total cost of ownership over three years than an x86 cloud and a 60 percent lower total cost of ownership over three years than a public cloud. [5] Additionally, the z13 is based on open standards, fully supporting Linux and OpenStack.

As part of today’s announcement, IBM will also unveil a preview of new z/OS software that delivers advanced analytic and data serving capabilities.  When available, this new operating system will expand the ability of z13 to process in-memory analytics and provide analysis on mobile transactions, helping clients to further extend mainframe enterprise applications to the mobile user.

This launch complements IBM's ongoing investments to help clients drive mobile innovation across the enterprise. IBM’s 6,000 mobile specialists have been at the forefront of mobile enterprise innovation. IBM has secured more than 4,300 patents in mobile, social and security, which have been incorporated into IBM MobileFirst solutions that enable enterprise clients to streamline and accelerate mobile adoption, helping enterprises embrace mobile from the ground up.
IBM Global Financing offerings for the new model z13 include customized Fair Market Value leases with payment deferrals for credit qualified customers that want to upgrade from older models to z13, convert an owned z system to leasing while upgrading, or acquire a net new z13.



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We can bring the analytics to the data

Analytics is all about getting more value out of our data. Given that almost 55% of world’s commercial transactions run through z Systems and upwards of 70% of all commercial data originates there, it’s easy to see why running transactional analytics within the same system makes sense.



It makes more sense than the cost and time spent moving data off-system, managing multiple copies, protecting data across the network and not knowing if insights are correct. Using z Systems' capabilities, tools and innovation to keep and manage our data on a single platform that supports the full analytics lifecycle, we slash storage costs, reduce complexity and focus on operational efficiency, improving sales and customer satisfaction.

In-transaction analytics = competitive advantage

An integrated transaction analysis program like z Systems merges the systems of record and systems of engagement, delivering right-time insights at the point of impact. We can instantly analyze 100% of our transactions for revenue boosts from cross-sells or up-sells—and by personalizing communication and offers, through engagement analytics, we can lift annual customer value up to 7.6% or more.



In-transaction fraud prevention helps keep our business safe while protecting our clients and their information. And we can reduce ETL costs by up to 10 million over four years by keeping our data on a single platform. We gain customer advantage and trust, save money and move at the speed of business. It’s all win.

Why Analyse just a fraction of our transactions?

The key pieces of insight are already trapped inside our data like needles in a haystack. But if we analyze only a small percentage of our business transactions, that potential value remains largely untapped, and we lose an extraordinary opportunity.



If we analyze more types of data together in context, we get greater insights, make better decisions and create more targeted messaging. Looking from the customer perspective, the more highly relevant and contextual offers we present to them, the more brand loyalty and business we build.

Integration improves our data literacy

Integration on z Systems helps our Big Data & Analytics solutions to work at optimal levels, giving us insight into our customers, markets, products, regulations, competitors, suppliers, employees and more. And with a flexible analytic structure, we can get more knowledgeable in finding, manipulating and interpreting data.

We know right now where everyone and everything is. All of which improves our decision-making and helps us create new revenue streams and build better business outcomes.





IBM z Systems analytics solutions
New! IBM InfoSphere z Systems Connector for Hadoop
Bring the power of Hadoop to IBM z Systems' legendary qualities of service.


IBM InfoSphere BigInsights for Linux on z Systems 
Put the power of Hadoop to use on the industry’s most reliable, scalable and available high performance platform.



IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator 
Delivers extremely fast performance to data-intensive and complex DB2 queries for data warehousing, business intelligence, and analytic workloads.



IBM Signature Solution - Next Best Action on z Systems 
Know and serve each customer as a unique individual on a massive scale with this complete solution.


IBM Capacity Management Analytics
Transform how you manage your resources, ensuring that you are able to meet your business demands.


Enterprise Linux Server for Analytics
Gain insights into all aspects of your Linux-based business.



IBM z Analytics System 9700
An end-to-end z/OS environment for the rapid deployment of enterprise analytics across your enterprise.


IBM z Analytics System 9710
Integrate insights into your enterprise at an entry-level price.


IBM Cognos TM1
A complete planning, budgeting and analytic environment for critical company-wide financial performance activities.