IBM z16 announced
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2022 7:56 pm
IBM announced their latest hardware platform, the z16, this week. The announcement is at https://newsroom.ibm.com/2022-04-05-Ann ... afe-System It can run 200 cores and have up to 40 TB of memory.
It is worth noting this part of the announcement:
It is worth noting this part of the announcement:
IBM innovations, including the IBM z16, have formed the technology backbone of the global economy for decades. Today's modern IBM mainframe is central to hybrid cloud environments, valued by two thirds of the Fortune 100, 45 of the world's top 50 banks, 8 of the top 10 insurers, 7 of the top 10 global retailers and 8 out of the top 10 telcos as a highly secured platform for running their most mission critical workloads. For example, according to a recent IBM commissioned study by Celent "Operationalizing Fraud Prevention on IBM Z," IBM zSystems run 70% of global transactions, on a value basis.2
