IBM grows mainframe family with rack, frame models targeting AI, hybrid clouds
The idea is to help customers protect long-lived, mission-critical data while reducing the cost and complexity of future cryptographic migration, IBM stated.
In that vein, IBM said it was bringing Crypto Discovery & Inventory, which lets security teams see what has been encrypted across the enterprise. In addition, IBM announced an Infrastructure Management for Z and LinuxONE package that would let customers administer, monitor, automate, and provision IBM Z and LinuxONE systems from a central location.
IBM said it wants to reduce operational complexity for customers by making automating day-to-day operations to ultimately lower administrative costs and concerns. With the new flexible form factors, IBM continues to target hybrid and AI infrastructure buildouts with the Big Iron. In the AI world, the z17 is being utilized for AI inferencing, transactions, training, and key security applications such as fraud detection and insurance claims.
