IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced IBM z15™, a new enterprise platform delivering the ability to manage the privacy of customer data across hybrid multicloud environments. With z15, clients can manage who gets access to data via policy-based controls, with an industry-first capability to revoke access to data across the hybrid cloud.
The movement of data between partners and third parties is often the root cause of data breaches. In fact, 60 percent of businesses reported they suffered a data breach caused by a vendor or third party in 20181. With the growing adoption of hybrid multicloud environments, the importance of maintaining data security and privacy only grows more acute and challenging.
The IBM z15 culminates four years of development with over 3,000 IBM Z patents issued or in process and represents a collaboration with input from over 100 companies. Key z15 innovations from these investments across IBM Systems and Research include:
Rising Importance of Data Privacy in Doing Business
A new IBM commissioned study conducted by The Harris Poll3 and released today found that 64 percent of all consumers have opted not to work with a business out of concerns of whether they could keep their data secure. However, that same study found 76 percent of respondents would be more willing to share personal information if there was a way to fully take back and retrieve that data at any time. With z15, pervasive encryption is designed to extend across the enterprise enforcing data privacy by policy even when it leaves the platform. With this industry-first capability, clients can offer new services and features that give their consumers stronger control over how their personal data is used.
The Next Phase of Digital Transformation – Moving Mission-Critical Work to the Cloud
Businesses today have reportedly already completed the first 20 percent of their cloud journey. z15 is uniquely positioned to help companies take this next step in their digital transformation efforts to move mission critical workloads (the other 80 percent) to the cloud4 by delivering a hyper-secure, agile and continuously available platform.
As the center of a secured hybrid cloud strategy, today, two-thirds of the Fortune 100 are using IBM Z. With z15, clients can:
“More than ever, our customers are looking for transactions to happen in a fraction of a second in a highly performant manner. Whether they’re at an ATM machine, making a purchase at a retail store, or transferring money when abroad – the agility, performance and security of IBM Z is paramount for delivering a positive experience for our customers,” said Graham Fagan, Director of Technology and Operations at Allied Irish Bank. “The IBM Z platform is one of our most modern infrastructure platforms in AIB. From our perspective, it’s absolutely pivotal to the successful operation of AIB, and by extension it is critical to the successful operation of payments and day-to-day banking activity across the Irish economy.”
“Bradesco is a company committed to innovation and constant progress and we have pioneered the implementation of many types of technologies. In 1982, we launched the first online current account update model in Brazil and conducted the first banking teleprocessing operation in the country – all running on IBM’s mainframe platform,” said Mr. Waldemar Ruggiero, IT Infrastructure Director at Bradesco. “Nearly 40 years later, we keep running all core banking data on the mainframe and we rely on z15 to offer us more processing power, resilience, security and flexibility so that we can faster deliver new products and services to our customers.”
“IBM Z is an essential component for addressing top concerns around hybrid cloud like security, privacy and agility. With z15, our clients can have the cloud they want, with the privacy and security they need – protection for both traditional mission-critical workloads and newer workloads like digital asset custody or blockchain,” said Ross Mauri, GM of IBM Z. “The reality is that for clients whose business’ depend on access to data in real time, IBM Z remains the go to choice. Often, our clients need access to data and analytic insights in a fraction of a second – not minutes, with the ability to control privacy of that data at a granular level.”
Data-Centric Privacy Controls
Data Privacy Passports is a consolidated data privacy solution that is engineered to extend clients’ ability to deliver privacy by not only protecting data on-premises at the infrastructure level, but allows clients to provision data rules to manage individual user access across private, public and hybrid cloud data at the data level. z15 accomplishes this by delivering:
Bringing Cloud-Native App Development to IBM Z
Last month, IBM announced intent to deliver Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Z and LinuxONE. This offering will accelerate the transformation to greater portability and agility through integrated tooling and a feature-rich ecosystem for cloud-native development on Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE offerings. Cloud developers can deploy z/OS applications using OpenShift with no special Z skills required.
IBM also intends to deliver IBM Cloud Pak offerings to Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE offerings. These offerings are designed to accelerate the rich IBM software ecosystem that is necessary for enterprise clients to adopt hybrid multicloud deployment. These offerings, combined with the IBM premier enterprise platforms, IBM Z and LinuxONE, will reinforce and further strengthen IBM’s capability to unlock business value and drive growth for clients by providing a secured and open hybrid multicloud platform.
Mission-Critical Work Done with No Time Lost
For both planned and unplanned downtime, Instant Recovery brings clients the ability to unlock the full power of z15, spinning up built-in cores to return to pre-shutdown SLAs10, while uniquely catching up on business transactions up to 2.5 times faster 11 than previously possible. This allows you to:
IBM Z and Storage at the Center of a Secured Hybrid Cloud
In May, IBM announced key capabilities to further position IBM Z as a center point of a secured hybrid cloud strategy including z/OS Container Extensions and z/OS Cloud Broker, making it easier for developers to build and manage cloud applications – both available on z15. Clients will also be able to take advantage of Tailored Fit Pricing for IBM Z, a simple cloud pricing model for today’s enterprise IT environment designed to deliver the transparency and flexibility of consumption-based pricing, with economies of scale for workloads on IBM z/OS.
In addition to z15, IBM today announced a new high-end, enterprise storage system, the IBM DS8900F specifically designed for mission critical hybrid multicloud environments. The next generation of IBM DS8900F storage system delivers comprehensive next-level cyber security, data availability and system resiliency for clients. In addition to z15, the IBM DS8900F offers clients more than 99.99999 percent uptime13 and several Disaster Recovery options designed for near-zero recovery times to ensure protection of data. With these new enterprise-class storage services, IBM Z clients now have a new level of control to store their data where it makes the best economic and business sense, while always keeping it resilient and available.
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