Posted on 07/18/2017 1:22:41 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
International Business Machines Corp. on Monday unveiled its next generation of mainframes, the industrial-strength computers that underpin industries such as banking and insurance, highlighting an old product category that still drives much of its profit.
The new line of mainframe computers pairs what IBM claimed is the industry’s fastest processor with additional resources in a package designed to handle large-scale, continuing...
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Yep, encryption is the hot “new” feature. Everybody is adding more and more, and still more is being demanded by the market.
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The world is in the midst of a digital transformation that is having a profound effect on us as individuals, in business, and in society. As businesses adapt to capitalize on digital, trust will be the currency that drives this new economy. The new IBM® z14™ (z14) mainframe is the core of trusted digital experiences. It enables the ultimate protection for your data and simplifies compliance to regulations. With z14, you can apply machine learning to your most valuable data to create deeper insights. And z14 is designed to be open and connected in the cloud, enabling massive transaction scale of high volume encrypted workloads at low cost.
NSA promises they have not installed any of their “backdoor” hardware....(well, they crossed their fingers so does it count?).
An obligatory bash of IBM and Lotus Notes.
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