Paris - 14 janv. 2015: IBM (NYSE: IBM) annonce aujourd’hui le z13, un des systèmes les plus sophistiqués jamais construit. Hautement modulable en capacité, il fournit un chiffrement en temps réel et des outils analytiques pour répondre aux attentes de temps de réponse et de sécurité des consommateurs, pour les milliards de transactions effectuées dans l’économie mobile. Le système z13 est le fruit d’un investissement d’un milliard de dollars et de cinq années de développement. Il s’appuie sur les innovations de plus de 500 nouveaux brevets et sur une collaboration avec plus de 60 clients, soulignant l’engagement singulier d’IBM à fournir des technologies innovantes et à forte valeur ajoutée à ses clients.

Le nouveau mainframe z13 d’IBM fournit de nouvelles capacités inédites :

• Le z13 est le premier système capable de traiter 2,5 milliards de transactions par jour, l’équivalent de 100 Cyber Mondays. Les transactions z13 sont protégées et entièrement auditables, ce qui apporte une sécurité supplémentaire pour des transactions mobiles qui se multiplient pour atteindre un nombre estimé à 40 000 milliards par jour d’ici 2025.
•  Le z13 est le premier système capable de réaliser un chiffrement en temps réel de toutes les transactions mobiles, quel qu’en soit le nombre. Le z13 accélère le chiffrement en temps réel des transactions mobiles pour protéger les données associées à la transaction et assurer un temps de réponse optimal. Le système s’appuie sur 500 nouveaux brevets parmi lesquels des technologies de traitements cryptographiques qui apportent davantage de sécurité pour les transactions initiées sur mobile.
• Le z13 est le premier système mainframe intégrant des fonctions analytiques permettant des analyses en temps réel sur toutes les transactions. Cela permet de garantir au client la capacité à détecter des fraudes en temps réel sur 100% de leurs transactions commerciales, grâce à une analyse « à la volée » 17 fois plus rapide que les systèmes concurrents et pour un coût très inférieur. [2] 

Avec la croissance rapide des applications mobiles, les consommateurs attendent de leurs transactions mobiles qu’elles soient réalisées de manière rapide et fluide, quelle que soit la plate-forme de paiement mobile, le commerçant ou l’organisation financière fournissant le service. Les entreprises se voient maintenant dans l’obligation de vérifier que leur infrastructure informatique peut supporter des applications mobiles répondant ou dépassant les attentes des consommateurs pour éviter de perdre leurs clients au profit des concurrents.

z13 assure des transactions mobiles sécurisées

Alors que l’adoption du mobile grandit, les consommateurs génèrent un nombre de plus en plus considérable de transactions mobiles. Chacune de ces transactions déclenche une cascade d’événements dans les systèmes informatiques, tels que la comparaison par rapport à des achats passés, le chiffrement et le déchiffrement des données, la réconciliation de banque à banque et des remises pour récompenser la fidélité des clients. Tous ces événements génèrent ce que l’on appelle un effet «starburst» (explosion en étoile) - par lequel une seule transaction peut déclencher de 4 à 100 autres transactions.

Par conséquent, l’effet “starburst” peut générer des vulnérabilités sur le plan de la sécurité à chaque point d’interaction. En fait, 71% des DSI et des responsables informatiques interrogés par IBM indiquent que leur principal défi relatif à l’entreprise mobile est la sécurité. [3] Avec des données et des transactions soumises à des menaces constantes issues de multiples points d’attaques, les consommateurs veulent être certains que leurs transactions mobiles sont aussi sécurisées que les données financières détenues par les banques.

Le z13, lorsqu’il est associé aux solutions IBM MobileFirst, fournit une performance, une disponibilité, des capacités d’analyse et une sécurité accrues qui permettent d’optimiser l’expérience des utilisateurs de technologies mobiles. La plateforme IBM MobileFirst permet aux organisations de mettre à disposition des applications plus sûres et de meilleure qualité. IBM MobileFirst Protect assure une sécurité sans faille et une gestion de bout en bout de l’infrastructure, de tous les terminaux, des applications, du contenu et des transactions.

Fournir des informations pertinentes pour chaque transaction

Aujourd’hui, les entreprises n’ont pas la capacité d’analyser 100% des transactions d’un consommateur. Grâce au z13, elles pourront utiliser SPSS - la technologie de modélisation d’analyses prédictives d’IBM - et personnaliser la transaction au fur et à mesure qu’elle survient. Le z13 étend également les utilisations d’Hadoop, permettant l’analyse des données non structurées dans le mainframe.

Le z13 est l’architecture Cloud privée ou hybride idéale, légendaire pour sa capacité à s’adapter au traitement de multiples workloads, de façon fiable et sécurisée. Dans un modèle scale-out, il est capable d’accueillir jusqu’à 8000 serveurs virtuels – plus de 50 serveurs virtuels par cœur, ce qui permet de réduire les coûts de logiciel, d’énergie et d’infrastructure.

Le z13 réduit le coût d’exploitation d’un Cloud. Si on le compare à des environnements similaires, on estime qu’un Cloud sur un z13 aura un coût de possession sur 3 ans de 32% inférieur à celui sur x86 et 60% inférieur à celui d’un Cloud public. [5] De plus, le z13 s’appuie sur des standards ouverts, avec Linux et OpenStack.

IBM Global Financing propose aux clients éligibles de disposer du système z13 sous forme de location constructeur, avec ou sans valeur résiduelle, et avec des profils de paiement personnalisés. Cette offre de location apporte de la flexibilité budgétaire, facilite les évolutions technologiques et les upgrades, réduit le risque d’obsolescence et maximise la valeur d’usage du Mainframe z13.

Les offres d'IBM Global Financing sont proposées aux clients éligibles des secteurs commercial et gouvernemental par IBM Credit LLC aux États-Unis et par d'autres filiales et divisions IBM dans les autres pays. Les taux et disponibilités sont basés sur la cote de solvabilité du client, les modalités de financement, le type d'offre, les équipements, le type de produit et les options, avec des variations possibles en fonction du pays. Les articles non matériels doivent être des articles à paiement unique et non récurrent, et ces articles sont financés au moyen de prêts. D'autres restrictions peuvent par ailleurs s'appliquer. Les tarifs et les offres peuvent être modifiés, prolongés ou annulés sans préavis, et il se peut qu'ils ne soient pas disponibles dans tous les pays.

Pour plus d’informations sur le z13 et sur le portefeuille IBM z Systems : ibm.com/systems/fr/z

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IBM Launches z13 Mainframe -- Most Powerful and Secure System Ever Built

• First system able to process 2.5 billion transactions per day, built for mobile economy
• Makes possible real-time encryption on all mobile transactions at scale
• First mainframe system with embedded analytics providing real time transaction insights 17X faster than compared competitive systems at a fraction of the cost

ARMONK, N.Y. - 13 Jan 2015: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the z13.  One of the most sophisticated computer systems ever built, it delivers scale and economics together with real-time encryption and analytics to help meet the expectations of consumers for speed and safety for trillions of transactions in the mobile economy. The z13 system culminates a $1 billion investment, five years of development, exploits the innovation of more than 500 new patents and represents a collaboration with more than 60 clients – underscoring IBM’s singular commitment to providing higher-value, innovative technologies to clients.

IBM's new mainframe provides unprecedented new capabilities, including:

• z13 is the first system able to process 2.5 billion transactions a day - equivalent of 100 Cyber Mondays every day of the year.  z13 transactions are persistent, protected and auditable from end-to-end, adding assurance as mobile transactions grow -- estimated to grow to 40 trillion mobile transactions per day by 2025. [1]
• z13 is the first system to make practical real-time encryption of all mobile transactions at any scale.  z13 speeds real-time encryption of mobile transactions to help protect the transaction data and ensure response times consistent with a positive customer experience.  The system includes 500 new patents including cryptographic encryption technologies that enable more security features for mobile initiated transactions.
• z13 is the first mainframe system with embedded analytics providing real-time insights on all transactions. This capability can help guarantee the ability of the client to run real-time fraud detection on 100 percent of their business transactions by delivering ‘on the fly’ analytic insights that are 17X faster than compared competitive systems at a fraction of the cost. [2]

The rapid growth of mobile applications has created consumers who expect mobile transactions to be fast and seamless – regardless of which mobile payment platform, retailer, or financial organization is providing the service. As a result, businesses are being forced to evaluate whether their IT infrastructures can support mobile applications that meet and exceed these consumer expectations -- or face the potential of losing clients to competing businesses.

 “Every time a consumer makes a purchase or hits refresh on a smart phone, it can create a cascade of events on the back end of the computing environment. The z13 is designed to handle billions of transactions for the mobile economy.  Only the IBM mainframe can put the power of the world's most secure datacenters in the palm of your hand," said Tom Rosamilia, senior vice president, IBM Systems. "Consumers expect fast, easy and secure mobile transactions. The implication for business is the creation of a secure, high performance infrastructure with sophisticated analytics."

z13 Helps with Secure, Trusted Mobile Transactions

As mobile adoption grows, consumers are driving exponentially larger numbers of mobile transactions. Each of these mobile transactions triggers a cascade of events across computing systems. These events include comparisons to past purchases, data encryption and decryption, bank-to-bank reconciliations, and customer loyalty discounts. This cascade of events causes a so-called “starburst effect” – where a single transaction can trigger as few as four or as many as 100 additional system interactions.

Consequently, the starburst effect can create security vulnerabilities at each interaction point. In fact, 71 percent of CIOs and IT managers surveyed by IBM indicated that security is their most significant mobile enterprise challenge. [3] With data and transactions under constant threat from multiple points of attack, consumers want to know that their mobile transactions are as secure as financial data held by banks.

When combined with IBM MobileFirst solutions, the z13 delivers enhanced performance, availability, analytics and security that will drive optimal mobile user experiences.  IBM MobileFirst Platform enables organizations to deliver better, more secure apps. IBM MobileFirst Protect delivers seamless security and end-to-end management of clients' infrastructure and all its devices, apps, content and transactions.

Providing Insight with Every Transaction

The z13 features the world’s fastest microprocessor, 2X faster than the most common server processors, 300 percent more memory, 100 percent more bandwidth and vector processing analytics to speed mobile transactions. As a result, the z13 transaction engine is capable of analyzing transactions in “real time” and will be able to help prevent fraud as it is occurring, allowing financial institutions to halt the transaction before the consumer is impacted. IBM has designed the z13 to integrate real-time scoring and guarantees this capability as a feature of the system. This scoring can be used for fraud detection on 100 percent of a client's business transactions. [4]

In addition to assistance with fraud prevention, businesses looking to enhance their customer loyalty programs will be able to use new z13 capabilities to add more personalization by gaining a real-time view of a client's purchasing habits to offer up-sell and cross-sell promotions before they leave the store -- and in some cases before they even enter.

Businesses today don’t have the ability to analyze 100 percent of a consumer's transaction. With the z13, businesses will be able to use IBM's predictive analytics modeling technology, SPSS, and personalize the transaction as it occurs.

The z13 includes new support for Hadoop, enabling unstructured data to be analyzed in the system. Other analytics advances include faster acceleration of queries by adding DB2 BLU for Linux providing an in-memory database, enhancements to the IBM DB2 analytics accelerator, and vastly improved performance for mathematically intense analytics workloads.

The z13 is the ideal private or hybrid cloud architecture, legendary for its ability to scale and reliably and securely handle multiple workloads. In a scale-out model, it is capable of running up to 8,000 virtual servers -- more than 50 virtual servers per core, helping to lower software, energy and facilities costs.

The z13 lowers the cost of running cloud. For compared environments, it is estimated that a z Systems cloud on a z13 will have a 32 percent lower total cost of ownership over three years than an x86 cloud and a 60 percent lower total cost of ownership over three years than a public cloud. [5] Additionally, the z13 is based on open standards, fully supporting Linux and OpenStack.

As part of today’s announcement, IBM will also unveil a preview of new z/OS software that delivers advanced analytic and data serving capabilities.  When available, this new operating system will expand the ability of z13 to process in-memory analytics and provide analysis on mobile transactions, helping clients to further extend mainframe enterprise applications to the mobile user.

This launch complements IBM's ongoing investments to help clients drive mobile innovation across the enterprise. IBM’s 6,000 mobile specialists have been at the forefront of mobile enterprise innovation. IBM has secured more than 4,300 patents in mobile, social and security, which have been incorporated into IBM MobileFirst solutions that enable enterprise clients to streamline and accelerate mobile adoption, helping enterprises embrace mobile from the ground up.

IBM Global Financing offerings for the new model z13 include customized Fair Market Value leases with payment deferrals for credit qualified customers that want to upgrade from older models to z13, convert an owned z system to leasing while upgrading, or acquire a net new z13.

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[1] – “Technology Economics of the Mainframe Part 3 -- Mainframe and Mobile” – January 2015

[2] Based on IBM internal tests comparing IBM zEnterprise Analytics System 9700 with a comparably priced, comparably tuned competitor Eighth Unit configuration (version available as of 12/31/2014), executing a materially identical 10 TB BIDAY “Fixed Execution” workload in a controlled laboratory environment. Competitor configuration: Eighth Unit including competitor recommended software options and features.  IBM configuration: z13 platform with 1CP and 3 zIIPs with 128GB memory and DB2 Analytics Accelerator Full Rack (N3001-10) with 7 S-blades (140 Intel E5-2680v2 2.8GHz cores and 128 GB RAM), 2 Hosts (1 active – 1 passive) with 20 Intel E5-4650v2 2.4GHz cores each and 12 disk enclosures, each with 24 600GB SAS drives. Results may not be typical and will vary based on actual workload, configuration, applications, queries and other variables in a production environment. Users of this document should verify the applicable data for their specific environment.

[3] http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=SA&subtype=WH&htmlfid=ENW03011USEN#loaded

[4] To qualify, clients will need to install a z13, the latest versions of DB2 & SPSS Scoring Adapter, and follow IBM’s capacity planning implementation instructions and processes. Guarantee will be in place for 1 year aligned with warranty period.

[5] – Performance comparison based on IBM Internal tests comparing IBM z13 cloud with one comparably configured private x86 cloud and one comparably configured public cloud running an aggregation of light, medium and heavy workloads designed to replicate typical IBM customer workload usage in the marketplace.  System configurations are based on equivalence ratios derived from IBM internal studies and are as follows: Public Cloud configuration: total of 219 instances (128 for light workloads, 64 for medium workloads and 27 for heavy workloads); x86 Cloud configuration: total of eleven x86 systems each with 24 Intel E7-8857 v2 3.0GHz cores, 512GB memory, and 7x400GB SSDs; z13 Cloud configuration: total of 32 IFLs, 3806GB memory, and Storwize v7000 with 47x400GB SSDs.  Price comparison estimates based on a 3YR Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) using publicly available U.S. prices (including a 20% discount for middleware) current as of January 1, 2015. Public Cloud TCO estimate includes costs (US East Region) of infrastructure (instances, data out, storage, support, free tier/reserved tier discounts), middleware and labor.  z13 and x86 TCO estimates include costs of infrastructure (system, memory, storage, virtualization, OS, cloud management), middleware, power, floor space and labor. Results may vary based on actual workloads, system configurations, customer applications, queries and other variables in a production environment and may produce different results. Users of this document should verify the applicable data for their specific environment.

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