Trusted AI starts here: New IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 systems now available
With the newly expanded portfolios of IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 now generally available, more organizations can now deploy the newest systems and take advantage of expanded deployment flexibility, AI readiness, enterprise resiliency and security-by-design capabilities.
When we announced the expansion of the IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 families in July, we introduced new deployment options designed to bring the power of AI and enterprise-grade resiliency to an even broader set of organizations. Today, we’re excited to share that the new IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 single frame and rack mount systems are generally available.
As organizations accelerate their AI initiatives, they’re looking for infrastructure that can support growing workloads without compromising security, availability or operational simplicity. The newest members of the IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 families were designed to help meet that need, making it easier for enterprises to bring AI to core business operations wherever it delivers the most value.
Additionally, IBM Infrastructure Management for Z and LinuxONE provides a unified, automation-first control plane to help simplify infrastructure management and improve decision making.
The expansion of the IBM z17and LinuxONE 5 portfolios gives organizations greater flexibility in how they deploy and scale their infrastructure while maintaining the qualities that have long defined IBM Z and LinuxONE: security, resiliency, performance and the ability to process mission-critical transactions at scale.
These new systems extend the reach of IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 technology to organizations and environments that require a smaller physical footprint while still demanding enterprise-grade capabilities. Whether supporting digital banking, payment processing, healthcare applications, government services, or retail operations, organizations can now take advantage of AI-ready infrastructure that helps connect transactional and AI workloads closer to where business decisions are made.
The result is a platform that enables businesses to modernize core operations, accelerate innovation, and generate insights from their most valuable data without moving it away from the systems where it is created and governed.
As AI becomes embedded into critical business processes, organizations are increasingly recognizing that successful AI adoption depends on more than model performance alone. Trust, security, governance and resilience are becoming foundational requirements.
This challenge is becoming even more important as frontier AI and agentic AI systems reshape the cybersecurity landscape. AI-powered attackers are increasingly operating at machine speed, accelerating vulnerability discovery, automating reconnaissance, and compressing the time between identifying and exploiting weaknesses. Organizations are being challenged to detect, respond and recover faster than ever before.
In this environment, security can no longer be viewed as a collection of point solutions layered on top of infrastructure. As organizations move critical AI and business workloads into production, they increasingly need security that is built into the architecture itself, spanning hardware, firmware, operating systems and software controls. Enterprises are shifting from security as an overlay to security as an architectural discipline, focused not only on preventing attacks, but also on maintaining trust, governance and business continuity when disruptions occur.
IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 were designed to help organizations address these evolving challenges. Security capabilities are integrated throughout the platform, helping establish trust from the moment systems start up through ongoing operations and recovery. Hardware-rooted trust, advanced cryptographic technologies, secure firmware protections, identity and access controls and cyber resilience capabilities work together to help safeguard sensitive data, applications and AI workloads.
As cyber threats continue to accelerate, IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 help organizations strengthen their security posture while simplifying operations. Built-in security and resilience capabilities help support faster threat detection, protect critical workloads, maintain compliance requirements, and improve recovery readiness. By integrating security across the technology stack, IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 provide a trusted foundation for organizations seeking to scale AI responsibly while maintaining the availability, integrity and confidentiality of their most important business processes and data.
To help organizations assess readiness and identify possible security gaps, IBM is offering a No-Cost Cyber Security Posture Assessment for IBM Z, providing an expert evaluation across 30 security domains and a prioritized roadmap for improving resilience. Organizations ready to act can take advantage of the IBM z17 Security Advantage Offer, which combines IBM z17 infrastructure, IBM zSecure Detection capabilities, expert assessment services, and flexible acquisition options including qualified 12-month deferred payment plans. Please contact your IBM sales representative for more information.
With the newly expanded portfolios of IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 now generally available, more organizations can now deploy the newest systems and take advantage of expanded deployment flexibility, AI readiness, enterprise resiliency and security-by-design capabilities.
As enterprises move from AI experimentation to AI at scale, secure infrastructure matters more than ever. The newest IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 systems help organizations bring AI closer to their most critical data and transactions while providing the trust, resilience and security needed for the next era of enterprise computing.
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