Business technology major IBM has introduced IBM Z with the latest data encryption capabilities to address data breaches and better processing power.
The latest IBM Z, which is available through IBM financing options, is capable of running more than 12 billion encrypted transactions per day.
The system’s cryptographic capability now extends across any data, networks, external devices or entire applications – such as the IBM Cloud Blockchain service – with no application changes and no impact on business service level agreements.
“The vast majority of stolen or leaked data today is in the open and easy to use because encryption has been very difficult and expensive to do at scale,” said Ross Mauri, general manager of IBM Z.
IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index reported that more than four billion records (+556 percent) were leaked in 2016.
Only about 2 percent of corporate data is encrypted because it can be too complex and expensive to manage. Encryption is absent in corporate and cloud data centers because data encryption solutions in x86 environments can degrade performance and user experience.
On other hand, more than 80 percent of mobile device data is encrypted.
IBM said the encryption at cloud scale is made possible by 7x increase in cryptographic performance over the previous generation z13 – driven by 4x increase in silicon dedicated to cryptographic algorithms. This is 18x faster than compared x86 systems and at five percent of the cost of compared x86-based solutions.
IBM Z can protect millions of keys as well as the process of accessing, generating and recycling them in “tamper responding” hardware that causes keys to be invalidated at any sign of intrusion and can then be restored in safety.
The system can support:
# More than 12 billion encrypted transactions per day on a single system
# The world’s largest MongoDB instance with 2.5x faster NodeJS performance than compared x86-based platforms
# 2 million Docker Containers
# 1,000 concurrent NoSQL databases
Other new capabilities
# Three times the memory of the z13 for faster response times, greater throughput and accelerated analytics performance
# 3 times faster I/O and accelerated transaction processing compared to the z13 to drive growth in data, transaction throughput and lower response time
# ability to run Java workloads 50 percent faster than x86 alternatives
The IBM Z key management system is designed to meet Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Level 4 standards.
Users can extend IBM Z capability beyond the mainframe to other devices, such as storage systems and servers in the cloud.
IBM Secure Service Container protects against insider threats from contractors and privileged users, provides automatic encryption of data and code in-flight and at-rest, and tamper-resistance during installation and runtime.
IBM Z allows organizations to encrypt these APIs – the digital glue that links services, applications and systems – nearly 3x faster than alternatives based on compared x86 systems.
“The pervasive encryption that is built into, and is designed to extend beyond, the new IBM Z really makes this the first system with an all-encompassing solution to the security threats and breaches we’ve been witnessing in the past 24 months,” said Peter Rutten, analyst at IDC’s Servers and Compute Platforms Group.
IBM Z supports
# 87 percent of all credit card transactions and nearly $8 trillion payments a year
# 29 billion ATM transactions each year, worth nearly $5 billion per day
# Four billion passenger flights each year
# More than 30 billion transactions per day – more than the number of Google searches every day
# 68 percent of the world’s production workloads at only six percent of the total IT cost
# 92 of the world’s top 100 banks rely on IBM mainframe
IBM Z, features the industry’s fastest microprocessor, running at 5.2GHz, and a new scalable system structure that delivers up to a 35 percent capacity increase for traditional workloads and a up to a 35 percent capacity increase for Linux workloads compared to the previous generation z13.
