IBM has announced the zEnterprise EC12 mainframe server. The new zEC12 offers support for operational analytics to sift through large volumes of raw data and transform it.
“We continue to drive innovation on System z, allowing a broader set of clients to apply its leadership capabilities in security and resiliency to the current demands of their business, be they from analytics, Cloud or mobile computing,” said Sreenath Chary, Platform Leader – System z, IBM India South Asia. “Our end-to-end design approach for smarter computing, from processors to systems to software optimization, is targeted to handle complicated business challenges associated with managing, protecting and analyzing a client’s most critical information. It’s what makes the mainframe the ultimate enterprise system.”
The IBM zEC12 enterprise system is the result of an investment by IBM Systems and Technology Group of more than $1 billion in IBM research and development primarily in Poughkeepsie, New York as well as 17 other IBM labs around the world and in collaboration with some of IBM’s top clients. The new IBM mainframe is one of the most secure enterprise systems ever, with built-in security features designed to meet the security and compliance requirements of different industries. With operational analytics and near real-time workload monitoring and analysis, clients can use the new zEC12 for a variety of workloads, including hybrid clouds that can take advantage of the System’s 25% more performance per core and 50% greater total system capacity than its predecessor as well as the world’s fastest chip running at 5.5 GHz.