IBM celebrated the 50th anniversary of the original System/360 this week with the introduction of a slew of new products for its latest generation System z mainframe, including a purpose-built Hadoop distribution developed in collaboration with Veristorm that allows customers to analyze their mission-critical data where it resides.

The offering, called zDoop, provides an alternative to moving sensitive corporate information to another platform, a process that is not only costly and time consuming but also has a good chance of creating security vulnerabilities that mainframe users would rather avoid. The distro was announced alongside several other software solutions, including an updated version of zSecure that integrates with IBM’s QRadar SIEM log event management tool to provide unified reporting capabilities.

Like IBM, Teradata is working to make it easier for slow-moving enterprises to adapt to the new reality of Big Data. The company on Monday debuted a tool called QueryGrid that allows users to query multiple information sources at a time, including Big Data platforms like Hadoop, for faster processing. It plugs into the newest release of the firm’s flagship data warehouse, which was announced on the same day and packs several major enhancements, notably support for JSON and a number of popular scripting languages plus in-database three-dimensional geospatial and temporal analytics capabilities.

The new releases represent Teradata’s response to the NoSQL databases that have been chewing away at its market share. MongoDB in particular stands out as one of the more popular solutions, a leadership position credited to its ease of use and scalability. The latest release of the platform, which was rolled out on Tuesday, adds advanced encryption features, incremental backup, point-in-time recovery and expanded monitoring functionality in addition to a set of under-the-hood enhancements.