IBM’s System z 13 is built for the mobile economy, showing that an emphasis on end-to-end data encryption and embedded analytics is key for the company and it’s customers. At IBM’s zNext event, Tom Rosamilia, Senior Vice President, IBM STG, stated in his live interview with theCUBE that z13 is the “first system built from the ground up for the mobile economy.”

“All businesses are feeling the heat from the mobile wave,” Rosamilia said. He further emphasized the importance of the mobile economy to IBM and the world at large, stating “These companies need to be ready and it’s just the beginning. Mobile transactions are increasing at a very fast pace and they will need to make sure they can catch, secure and analyze those transactions.”

System z 13 runs 2.5 billion transactions a day. “We encrypt data from end to end,” Rosamilia explained, “not just data at rest but data in motion.” He also explained that traditionally it’s been difficult to run analytics and transactions on the same system, saying “We can do that on the mainframe on the z 13. We have built in analytics in the transactions. You prevent fraud rather than prevent the fact.” IBM System z guarantees real time fraud prevention on 100 percent of transactions.

“The memory is another key piece of this,” Roasamilia added. “Transaction processing has to run quickly. Analytics uses a lot of memory. We triple the memory space on the z 13,” offering “incredible memory space and cache size to run transactions and analytics simultaneously.”

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