IBM z16™ is the latest iteration of IBM Z® mainframes with on-chip AI inferencing and industry-first quantum-safe technologies.¹
Bring AI and cyber resiliency to your hybrid cloud to speed insights and protect data now against future threats. IBM z16 features the groundbreaking IBM® Telum™ processor at its core. It has industry-first on-chip integrated accelerators to predict and automate with AI at unprecedented speed, scale and extremely low latency.
Choose from a single-frame, multi-frame or rack mount to fit your workload optimization and infrastructure needs.
Solution brief: The security impact of quantum-safe cryptography on IBM z16
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Create new value across your business with accelerated AI insights from every customer interaction.
Secure your data and systems to protect against current and future threats.
Speed up the modernization of workloads and integrate them seamlessly across the hybrid cloud.
Run inferencing for high volume workloads at scale and low latency to help detect fraud and more with the IBM Telum processor and integrated accelerator.
Start your quantum-safe journey as you modernize with the crypto discovery capability in IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence (ADDI).
Simplify and accelerate compliance to help reduce costs and improve staff productivity.
Avoid service disruptions proactively by managing capacity across locations and transferring workloads on demand with IBM Flexible Capacity for Cyber Resiliency.
Accelerate modernization with less risk and cost with the IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Center.
Monitor power consumption at the partition level with an enhanced environmental dashboard and application programming interface (API).
Choose from three IBM z16 configurations.
Product specifications
IBM z16 multiframe
IBM z16 single frame
IBM z16 rack mount
Maximum number of engines
200
68
68
Maximum number of drawers
4
2
2
Maximum number of IO drawers
12
3
3
Number of frames
1 to 4
1
No frame
Colocate with storage/switch
No
No
Yes
Frequency
5.2 GHz
4.6 GHz
4.6 GHz
Telum chip
Yes
Yes
Yes
Maximum memory
40 TB
16 TB
16 TB
Sizes
39, 82, 125, 168 and 200
5, 16, 32 and 68
5, 16, 32 and 68
Specification sheets
Energy efficiency
Technical guides
Interactive tour
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¹ IBM z16 with the Crypto Express 8S card provides quantum-safe APIs, providing access to quantum-safe algorithms, which have been selected as finalists during the PQC standardization process conducted by NIST. Source: https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography/post-quantum-cryptography-standardization/round-3-submissions (link resides outside ibm.com). Quantum-safe cryptography refers to efforts to identify algorithms resistant to attacks by classical and quantum computers. This aims to keep information assets secure even after a large-scale quantum computer has been built. Source: https://www.etsi.org/technologies/quantum-safe-cryptography (link resides outside ibm.com). These algorithms help with the integrity of several firmware and boot processes. IBM z16 is the industry-first system protected by quantum-safe technology across multiple firmware layers.