IBM general manager Jim Stallings said that with data being the core of today's most critical businesses, IBM's System z9 mainframe with a zIIP engine can orchestrate information resources. 'When users centralize their data on the mainframe, they may decrease the risks associated with having multiple copies of data across diverse systems.'

Aside from decreasing the risks from having more than one copy of the data, Stallings added that audit, compliance, and business recovery is easier to manage when there is only a single copy of the data.

The addition of zIIP to the System z9 mainframe bolsters IBM's portfolio of data management capabilities that stem from deep data and transaction processing. The new System z9 with zIIP is then positioned as an enterprise hub of sorts, with connectivity to other systems, applications, and development languages. 'The mainframe with zIIP engine can increasingly play an essential role as a security-ready enterprise data hub,' said Stallings.