As organizations accelerate AI adoption, the need for a trusted, secure, and high-performance platform has never been greater. IBM z17™ is purpose-built to help enterprises realize the full value of AI—while maintaining the reliability, security, and scalability required for mission-critical operations. The new IBM z17 Single Frame and IBM z17 Rack Mount Bundle solutions are engineered to help organizations unlock the full potential of AI, enhance cyber resilience, and simplify operations while driving greater value from their most critical business workloads.
Building on the strength of the IBM Z platform, IBM z17 enables organizations to drive innovation, improve efficiency, and protect their most valuable assets in an increasingly complex digital landscape.
Accelerate Growth with AI at the Core
IBM z17 helps organizations bring AI closer to their mission-critical data and business processes, enabling them to:
- Drive faster business outcomes and fuel business growth
- Unlock new Agentic AI services and speed innovation
- Modernize faster to free up development resources
By integrating AI directly into the core of the enterprise, organizations can move from experimentation to execution, transforming insights into measurable business value.
Transform Operations with End-to-End Automation
Operational efficiency remains a top priority for organizations seeking to maximize performance and agility. IBM z17 helps enterprises:
- Slash operational complexity
- Expedite insights and eliminate blind spots
- Get the most out of their investment
These capabilities enable organizations to improve productivity, increase responsiveness, and create a more resilient operational foundation for the future.
Protect Critical Data with Uncompromising Security
As cyber threats continue to evolve, organizations require a platform designed to safeguard sensitive data and maintain trust. IBM z17 helps enterprises:
- Strengthen cyber resilience
- Increase transparency to reduce risk
- Simplify security and compliance operations
By embedding security throughout the platform, IBM z17 helps organizations protect critical workloads while supporting regulatory and business requirements.
IBM z17 and Adaptigent
For Adaptigent, the IBM z17™ announcement reinforces an important shift in enterprise modernization: the future of AI depends not only on powerful models, but on secure, governed, real-time access to the trusted systems of record that run the business. IBM z17 brings AI, automation, security, and resilience closer to mission-critical workloads, creating new opportunities for organizations to modernize with confidence.
Adaptigent helps clients innovate on IBM Z by connecting core systems, modern tooling, applications, hybrid cloud environments, data platforms, and digital channels through governed API integration and orchestration. With Adaptive Integration Fabric, organizations can expose and orchestrate mainframe transaction systems, including CICS, IMS, IDMS, and 3270 environments, as reusable business services and APIs. This helps enterprises modernize without unnecessary rewriting, replatforming, or disruption to the systems that continue to power critical operations.
As AI moves closer to the enterprise core, integration and governance become even more important. AI initiatives are only as reliable as the data, controls, and workflows around them. Adaptigent helps organizations create governed access to authoritative operational data, embed automation into existing transaction flows, and maintain the reliability, compliance, and control required for enterprise environments.
IBM z17 also highlights the continued importance of operational resilience and security. Adaptigent supports this direction by helping customers create observable, policy-aware integration layers that securely connect hybrid environments and simplify access to critical business logic and data.
Together, IBM Z and Adaptigent give enterprises a practical way to protect what works, unlock what matters, and extend mission-critical systems into the AI era. For our mutual customers, IBM z17 matters because it strengthens the mainframe’s role as a trusted foundation for AI, automation, and modernization, while Adaptigent helps translate those capabilities into connected, business-ready outcomes
“Adaptigent helps enterprises extend the value of the mission-critical systems that continue to power their business. Our work with IBM Z is an important part of that mission. As a member of the IBM Z Community, we are excited about the role IBM z17 can play in helping organizations advance AI adoption, modernize core workloads, and strengthen operational resilience.
For Adaptigent, IBM z17 reinforces the importance of what we do every day: helping clients activate trusted mainframe data, expose core business logic through modern APIs, connect legacy systems to hybrid environments, and orchestrate automation without unnecessary disruption. Together with IBM Z, Adaptigent helps clients modernize around the systems they rely on most while delivering secure, real-time, intelligent digital experiences.”
– Shawn Ryan, General Manager, Adaptigent