IBM Launches New Mainframe in Bet That Some Data Stays Local
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International Business Machines Corp. unveiled its latest mainframe system, saying that a chunk of business data will remain on customer-owned servers and never be hosted on the cloud.
The new generation of IBM’s mainframes, dubbed z17, will be powerful enough to handle the work of AI models with stored data, IBM said Tuesday in a statement. Recent acquisition HashiCorp Inc. will help implement new security features for the machines, IBM added. The z17 is the first new machine since 2022, which fits the company’s general three-year update cycle for its mainframes.