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Barry Baker, IBM Infrastructure COO, explains why mainframe modernisation misconceptions miss the point and how AI acceleration on Z drives enterprise transformation.
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Mainframe platforms deliver eight nines availability and process 25 billion transactions daily—moving workloads to cloud typically costs more due to fragmented security and resiliency.
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IBM Spire accelerator enables fraud detection in under one millisecond per transaction, eliminating latency constraints that previously required off-platform processing.
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Successful AI adoption requires breaking large initiatives into smaller, measurable pieces with contained blast radius, prioritising storage strategy and post-quantum cryptography inventory now.
"The real magic is going to be how you as an enterprise can take your data, your business data, and actually figure out how to inject that into your workflows." - Barry Baker