IBM's New z13 Mainframe Designed to Handle Billions of Transactions for the Mobile Economy. At IBM's manufacturing facility in Poughkeepsie, NY, software developer Moses Vaughan tests a mobile app that is running on IBM's new z13 mainframe, one of the most sophisticated  computer systems ever built. Courtesy of IBM / Jon Simon/Feature Photo Service for IBM

Armonk, NY, USA - January 13, 2015

• First system able to process 2.5 billion transactions per day, built for mobile economy

• Makes possible real-time encryption on all mobile transactions at scale

• First mainframe system with embedded analytics providing real time transaction insights 17X faster than compared competitive systems at a fraction of the cost

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the z13.
One of the most sophisticated computer systems ever built, it delivers scale and economics together with real-time encryption and analytics to help meet the expectations of consumers for speed and safety for trillions of transactions in the mobile economy.

The z13 system culminates a $1 billion investment, five years of development, exploits the innovation of more than 500 new patents and represents a collaboration with more than 60 clients – underscoring IBM’s singular commitment to providing higher-value, innovative technologies to clients.

IBM Launches z13 Mainframe - Most Powerful and Secure System Ever Built. Courtesy of IBM / Augusto Menezes/Feature Photo Service for IBM

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.

• 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.

The z13 - the Most Powerful and Secure System Ever Built. IBM has announced the z13. One of the most sophisticated computer systems ever built, it delivers scale and economics together with real-time encryption and analytics to help meet the expectations of consumers for speed and safety for trillions of transactions in the mobile economy. Courtesy of IBM

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.

Tom Rosamilia, Senior Vice President of IBM Systems. Courtesy of IBM

“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.

Infographic - The Starburst Effect. See how one mobile transaction can create infinite connections. Courtesy of IBM

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.

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.

IBM Mobile Transactions Infographic MFI 4. Courtesy of IBM

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 Mobile Transactions Infographic MFI 3. Courtesy of IBM

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.

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.

IBM Mobile Transactions Infographic MFI 2. Courtesy of IBM

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.

Additionally, the z13 is based on open standards, fully supporting Linux and OpenStack.

IBM Mobile Transactions Infographic MFI 1. Courtesy of IBM

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.

Mainframes Powering the Mobile App Economy. See how the IBM Mainframe enables the app economy by providing, fast, secure, and seamless connections and transaction processing. Courtesy of IBM

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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Tom Rosamilia

Senior Vice President, IBM Systems

Tom Rosamilia Courtesy of IBM

Tom Rosamilia is Senior Vice President of IBM Systems.
In this role, Mr. Rosamilia has global responsibility for all aspects of IBM's middleware, servers and storage as well as the Company's global Business Partners organization.

For 18 months prior to his leadership of IBM Systems, Mr. Rosamilia served as Senior Vice President of IBM Systems and Technology Group and IBM Integrated Supply Chain, where he led IBM’s semiconductor, servers, storage, and the system software business; all of IBM’s supply chain; and the company’s Global Business Partners organization.

During that time, he oversaw the transformation of IBM’s Systems & Technology Group business to better address clients' higher-value, data-driven IT requirements.

This included making major investments in strategic businesses and initiatives while exiting businesses that were not aligned with current and emerging client demands.

For example, in 2013, Mr. Rosamilia helped to lead the creation of the OpenPOWER Foundation, a collaboration with Google, Tyan, Mellanox and NVIDIA for open server product design and development.

Mr. Rosamilia has also overseen the divestiture of IBM’s global semiconductor manufacturing business to GLOBALFOUNDRIES and the divestiture of IBM’s x86 server business to Lenovo.

These changes are fueling renewed vitality in what is now the IBM Systems business.

With an IBM career that spans more than 30 years, Mr. Rosamilia joined the company in 1983 as a software developer.

Following a number of leadership roles in the Software group, he became General Manager of IBM’s WebSphere software division.

In 2009, Mr. Rosamilia joined IBM Systems & Technology Group as General Manager of System z and, soon after, Power Systems as well. In this role, he was responsible for all facets of both businesses, including strategy, marketing, sales, operations, technology development and overall financial performance.

Prior to that, he was Vice President of Corporate Strategy and General Manager of Enterprise Initiatives, responsible for IBM’s strategic direction and for developing the company’s path forward in the new era of computing.

Mr. Rosamilia received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University, with majors in computer science and economics.

In 2004, he completed the IBM Strategic Leadership Forum at Harvard Business School.

Mr. Rosamilia has also served on the boards of the United Way of Dutchess County, the United Way of Silicon Valley, the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group and the California Manufacturing and Technology Association.

January 2015


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