IBM announced the availability of its System z9 Integrated Information Processor (zIIP), which can consolidate databases as well as applications such as enterprise resource planning and business intelligence on a single platform, when it launched the System z9 Enterprise Class mainframe in January.

The same set of hardware accelerators, along with two others called Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) and zSeries Application Assist Processors (zAAP) designed to speed up Linux and Java applications, respectively, are also available for the newer z9 Business Class mainframe models.