When you think of mainframes, you probably have a mental picture from an old movie, with punch cards and a computer that takes up an entire large room. But the mainframe still lives, and is a viable product at IBM. Today, it’s much sleeker and more powerful, and helps run data-intensive workloads for the world’s biggest industries, with use cases that might not be quite ready for the cloud.
Today IBM unveiled the latest mainframe in its storied history, the z16. It runs on the IBM Telum processor, which the company released last summer. The chip has been optimized to run massive workloads, processing 300 billion high-value financial transactions per day with just one millisecond of latency, according to the company.
That’s for customers who have a serious need for speed with heavy volume. The primary use case the company is selling for this monster machine is real-time …
