Deliver security, privacy and resiliency at scale as part of your enterprise-wide cloud infrastructure. The IBM z15® enables cloud-native services while extending the value of data and applications. So you can drive to market faster, while avoiding cloud security risks and complex migration challenges.
The IBM z15 introduced Instant Recovery technologies to IBM zSystems™. It is superseded by the IBM z16™.
Learn about how digital transformation requires agility and flexibility of the public cloud while integrating with critical systems of record on-premises.
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Build digital and AI-infused services that are developed — and deployed — anywhere in your cloud.
Protect your data and applications, and manage privacy by policy, across your ecosystem.
Isolate workloads at scale, protect against attacks, deliver continuous service, and mitigate downtime.
Get a z15 system for any business size, available through public, private or hybrid cloud.
Make app modernization a snap so your business stays up to date.
Get greater flexibility, portability and consistency when developing and deploying new digital and AI-infused services.
Enable extensive encryption of data in-flight and at-rest to substantially simplify encryption and reduce costs.
Unlock system capacity to deliver faster recovery, reducing points of failure and building a 24x7x365 operation.
IBM Z is trusted by businesses of all sizes, and IBM z15 can make resources available on demand and speed up execution time for various workloads.
IBM Secure Execution enables isolation of workloads with granularity and scale to ensure protection of end-to-end services.
Choose from two IBM z15 configurations.
Product specifications
IBM z15 T01 multi frame
IBM z15 T02 single frame
Maximum numbers of engines
190
65
Maximum numbers of drawers
4
2
Maximum numbers of IO drawers
12
3
Numbers of frames
1 to 4
1
Co-locate with storage/switch
No
No
Frequency
5.2 GHz
4.6 GHz
Maximum memory
40 TB
16 TB
Sizes
34, 71, 108, 145 and 190
4, 13, 21, 31 and 65
Specifications sheets
Interactive tour
Technical guides
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