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Real-time AI for transaction

processing at scale and industry's

first quantum-safe system

BM has released its next-generation system, IBM z16, with an integrated on-chip time at scale - wherever their mission
AI accelerator delivering latency-optimised inferencing. This innovation is designed critical data resides,” said Kosta Lochaitis,
Ito enable companies to analyse real-time transactions, at scale, for mission-critical brand sales manager at IBM South Africa.
workloads such as credit card, healthcare and financial transactions. Building on IBM’s
history of security leadership, IBM z16 is also specifically designed to help protect against Real-time enterprise AI to
near-future threats that might be used to crack today’s encryption technologies. revolutionise industries with new
IBM innovations, including the IBM z16, have formed the technology backbone of use cases and applications
the global economy for decades. Today’s modern IBM mainframe is central to hybrid Financial institutions worldwide struggle
cloud environments, valued by two thirds of Fortune 100, 45 of the world’s top 50 with the impacts of fraudulent activities
banks, eight of the top ten insurers, seven of the top ten global retailers and eight out on their revenues and consumer
of the top ten telcos as a highly secured platform for running their most mission critical interactions. IBM z16 uniquely brings
workloads. For example, according to a recent IBM commissioned study by Celent together AI inferencing, via its IBM
report, “Operationalising Fraud Prevention on IBM Z,” IBM zSystems run 70% of global Telum Processor, with the highly secured
transactions on a value basis. and reliable high-volume transaction
“As industries across South Africa transform rapidly, IBM z16 innovations will be processing IBM is known for.
essential in addressing top needs around hybrid cloud, such as security, privacy and For the first time, banks can analyse
agility. With z16, our clients can be one step ahead and deliver exceptional customer for fraud during transactions on a
experiences with the privacy and security they need – including preventing fraud in real massive scale: IBM z16 can process

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