The unveiling of IBM z17 has captured our attention, built to help maximize flexibility with AI while providing high levels of resiliency and support and support for mission-critical workloads.

Six decades of evolution and innovation later, IBM Z mainframes continue to be mainstays of the modern enterprise tech estate, trusted by 43 of the world’s top 50 banks and 8 of the 10 top payment companies as their core computing platform. Mainframes are unparalleled in both reliability and cost-effectiveness, processing 70% of worldwide transaction processing workloads while accounting for only 8% of annual IT spending and as little as one third of a second of downtime per year.¹

As innovation in AI technology fuels and industry-wide transformation in operations and analytics, IBM Z mainframes represent enormous value as both an AI processing platform and repository of valuable business and operational data. Fully realizing this value will require integrating data and applications across every platform in a hybrid-by-design cloud environment.

Alebra Technologies Integrates Data Across the Hybrid-Cloud Enterprise

Backed by our nearly 20-year partnership with IBM, Alebra’s Parallel Data Mover (PDM) is the fastest, most efficient data movement tool available today. PDM provides an all-in-one solution for sharing data and integrating applications across every platform in the enterprise – all without impacting critical workloads and SLAs.

As an IBM partner, Alebra is proud to support the new z17 and help enterprises leverage the power of the mainframe as the center of the hybrid-cloud environment.

1Mainframes as Mainstays of Digital Transformation, IBM, Oct 2024