Why Upgrade to IBM z17?
With AI adoption on the rise, upgrading your IBM Z Systems solution to z17 gives your company a competitive edge. IBM z17helps your company accelerate modernization by leveraging AI assistants and agents to simplify mainframe operations and address skills gaps. IBM z17 is designed to deliver AI capabilities across hardware, software, systems operations, and hybrid environments. Powered by the 5.5 GHz IBM Telum II processor, z17 can process 50% more AI operations per day than z16 while reducing power consumption by 17%. In designing z17, IBM collaborated with over 100 Z Systems users to introduce the AI, security, and management capabilities that clients need, as well as improvements to system usability.
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50% more AI operations per day
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17% reduction in power consumption
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100 Z Systems users collaborated with IBM
IBM z17: Harnessing AI to Transform Operations
Building on the capabilities of its predecessor, z16, z17 is designed to deliver enhanced performance, scalability, and integrated AI functionalities. IBM z17 represents a significant leap forward in mainframe technology by combining enhanced processing power, environmental sustainability, and integrated AI capabilities to meet the evolving demands of enterprise computing. “Do More at the Core” with z17, a mainframe solution that brings AI closer to data, allowing users to carry out more inferencing operations at an accelerated rate. With z17, companies can enhance user experience with IBM watsonx Assistant for Z, transforming how users engage and manage the mainframe. Z17 also promotes data resiliency through AI-powered threat intelligence.
AI Performance by 7x: Achieve Real-Time Insights with IBM z17
AI puts huge demands on performance, requiring 7x the computational throughput of other types of operations. To meet greater performance requirements, IBM put the 5.5 GHz Telum II processor, an evolution of the Telum processor used in the z16, at the heart of z17. The Telum II features a 43-billion-transistor die with an on-chip Data Processing Unit (DPU) that aims to accelerate AI workloads and inferencing to help identify fraud in real time. The IBM Telum II processor enables over 450 billion AI inference operations daily with sub-millisecond response times. Z17 is equipped with an extensive I/O infrastructure that supports high-throughput operations and flexible system expansion up to 64 terabytes (TBs) of memory and 208 processors.
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450 billion AI inference operations per day
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64 TBs of memory
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208 processors
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7.5x AI throughput
Mainframe AI Integration: Real-Time Insights & Efficiency
Z17 focuses on artificial intelligence to gain insights from your most trusted data. The system incorporates the available PCIe-based AI Spyre Accelerator, designed to enhance AI inferencing capabilities directly within the mainframe environment. This integration allows for real-time data analysis and insights through generative AI and large language models (LLMs) without the need to transfer data to external systems, thereby reducing latency and improving efficiency along with decreasing energy consumption.
Secure & Resilient Mainframe: Quantum-Safe Security & AI Threat Detection
Continuing IBM's emphasis on security, z17 integrates advanced encryption and the second generation of Quantum-safe security to protect against future threats. The system's architecture ensures high availability and resilience, maintaining IBM's reputation for delivering robust enterprise solutions. Encryption capabilities ensure compliance in the highly regulated financial services and healthcare industries. Z17 leverages new AI security capabilities for secrets management and threat detection across hybrid infrastructures through IBM Vault.
AI Performance by 7x: Get Real-Time Insights with IBM z17
With improved memory & scalability the z17 system architecture supports configurations ranging from one to four frames up to 208 processor cores, 12 I/O drawers, and 64 TB of memory, a 60% increase compared to the z16. This expanded memory capacity is facilitated by the adoption of Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory technology, enhancing data throughput and system responsiveness.
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64 TB of memory
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60% increase in memory compared to z16
IBM z17 AI Use Cases
Fraud Detection
Financial institutions can apply fraud screening to highly sensitive instant payments. With z17, companies in finance can scale and score all transactions in real time even when handling high volumes of transactions.
Insurance Product Recommendations
Insurance companies can use AI to predict the probability that an insurance offer will be converted into a contract immediately after the offer is created. In-progress quotes can be compared with similar historical quotes to give the user a conversion probability score.
Retail Inventory and Demand Forecasting
Retailers can leverage AI to optimize inventory management and reduce costs and order cycles. AI can leverage transaction data to assist with forecasting and stocking decisions. With AI, retailers use real-time inventory metrics to drive dynamic demand prediction, providing decision inputs for automated ordering and restocking, resulting in faster order fulfillment and turnaround.
Geo-Spatial Imaging
Government agencies can leverage geospatial satellite images for analysis on IBM z17, where their core system of record data resides, to take advantage of the built in AI capabilities of the platform.
Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
With z17 AI capabilities, finance companies can introduce real-time AML screening into their instant payment workflows to protect their institution against the most sophisticated financial crimes and avoid heavy regulatory fines for non-compliance.
Medical Image Analysis
Healthcare providers can analyze an increasing volume of medical imaging scans by using z17 AI inferencing capabilities to automate anomaly detection. Adding patient history as context to image analysis reduces false positives and negatives.
Why Choose PSR for IBM z17?
PSR focuses on providing IBM Z Systems solutions and services, making us the ideal partner to help your company upgrade to z17. We have more than 40 years of experience supporting and advising mainframe users on how to progress in their IBM Z journey using the latest solutions. Our Managed Mainframe Services, including those for Mainframe Modernization, ensure that your company benefits from the latest innovations in IBM Z Systems, such as the AI capabilities of z17. Our goal is to encourage mainframe growth by using our Systems Engineering expertise to empower companies to get the most value out of the mainframe.