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International Business Machines Corp (IBM) unveiled its latest mainframe system, saying that a chunk of business data will remain on customer-owned servers and never be hosted on the cloud.
The new generation of IBM’s mainframes, dubbed z17, will be powerful enough to handle the work of artificial intelligence (AI) models with stored data, IBM said in a statement on Tuesday.
The z17 is IBM’s first new machine since 2022, which fits the company’s general three-year update cycle for its mainframes. Recent acquisition HashiCorp will help implement new security features for the machines, IBM added.
Unlike the cloud, which enables enterprises to store and access data over the internet from providers such as Amazon.com’s Amazon Web Services (AWS), mainframes are physical hardware owned by the customer.
For years, many industry watchers anticipated nearly all corporate data would make its way to being hosted by public cloud services providers like AWS, Microsoft’s Azure and Alphabet’s Google.
IBM infrastructure chief Ric Lewis said there is a growing sense among customers that some data belongs on their own servers.

“You see the entire industry kind of settling into this hybrid model,” Lewis said. Some clients “are just obsessed about owning their data, getting value from that data and making sure it never goes anywhere and is never incorrect”.
The intense computational requirements of generative AI have increased demand for many kinds of tech hardware. Server makers like Dell Technologies have seen once-sleepy parts of their businesses become major growth drivers.
IBM, long known by its nickname Big Blue, has remodelled itself around software and consulting in recent years.
Still, physical infrastructure remains a lucrative, if slow-growing, business for the Armonk, New York-based company.
That unit posted US$14 billion in revenue in the most recent financial year and is expected to modestly increase this year and next.


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The new z17 mainframe enables a chunk of business data to remain on customer-owned servers and not hosted on the cloud


The new z17 mainframe enables a chunk of business data to remain on customer-owned servers and not hosted on the cloud.
