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IBM z17 mainframe gains AI accelerator, massive workload support

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IBM has rolled out the latest iteration of its mainframe, replete with AI technology designed to take data-intensive application support well into the future. AI use cases are growing , says IBM, which counts more than 250 for IBM Z including financial fraud detection, medical image analysis, and credit risk scoring.

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IBM preps Power servers with AI support, new processor

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Highlights of the 2025 roadmap include: IBM’s Spyre Accelerator for AI will be part of the Power processing systems. The Power server line will be anchored by a new processor, the IBM Power11. Jointly designed by IBM Research and IBM Infrastructure, Spyre’s architecture is designed for more efficient AI computation.

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Cisco data center switches feature baked-in security for AI, networking duties

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Cisco has unwrapped a new family of data center switches it says will help customers more securely support large workloads and facilitate AI development across the enterprise. HPE Arubas CX 10000 high-end switch uses AMD DPUs, and other vendors such as Microsoft and IBM use the technology as well.)

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IBM wins UK lawsuit against LzLabs for mainframe intellectual property theft

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When it comes to protecting its mainframe technology, IBM wields a pretty big sword. This week, its defense triumphed as IBM won a judgement against LzLabs for violating Big Blues intellectual property rights. This technology represents billions of dollars of IBM investment, IBM wrote.

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IBM tweaks its z14 mainframe to make it a better physical fit for the data center

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IBM is widening its mainframe range with some narrower models – ZR1 and Rockhopper II – that are skinny enough to fit in a standard 19-inch rack, which will answer criticisms of potential customers that the hulking z14 introduced in July 2017 too big to fit in their data centers (see photo above).

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IBM targets mainframe customers with prebuilt AI training modules

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IBM is rolling out a portfolio of enterprise data sets aimed at jumpstarting AI development for its Z and LinuxONE mainframe customers. If a customer has an existing model or LLM, synthetic data provides additional data that is rich, labeled, and diverse to fine-tune the AI model.

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10 quantum computing milestones of 2024

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IBM launches Qiskit functions catalog After a bit of slowdown in the summer, quantum computing news announcements picked up again in the fall. IBM launched its Qiskit Functions catalog , offering six quantum services designed to make it easier for enterprise developers to work with quantum algorithms.

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