IBM announced new capabilities for its System z mainframe. The integration of analytics with transactional data can provide businesses with real-time, actionable insights on commercial transactions as they occur to take advantage of new opportunities to increase sales and help minimize loss through fraud prevention.
The announcement combines the traditional transactional power of System z with Big Data analytic capabilities into a single, streamlined, end-to-end data system. This real-time integration of analytics and transaction processing can allow businesses to increase the value of a customer information profile with every interaction the customer makes.
IBM adds new analytics capabilities to the mainframe platform helping enable better data security and providing clients with the ability to integrate Hadoop big data. These offerings include:
- IBM InfoSphere BigInsights for Linux on System z – Combines open-source Apache Hadoop with IBM innovations to deliver enterprise grade Hadoop for System z clients;
- IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator – Enhances data security while delivering 2000 times the response time for complex data queries.
Additionally, IBM unveiled new capabilities in Linux and the cloud for system z. These include:
- IBM Elastic Storage for Linux on System z – Extends the benefits of Elastic Storage to the Linux environment on IBM System z servers;
- IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack for System z – Provides heterogeneous cloud management across System z, Power and x86 environments.
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