announced growing opportunities for organizations to realize greater value from the company's advanced AI, security and hybrid cloud solutions with “Day One” support for IBM's new z16. Broadcom's suite of unique “beyond code” software solutions, services and programs give customers an edge to succeed in an increasingly challenging business environment.
“Our strategic investments position customers to explore z16 alongside advances in AI, cybersecurity, cloud integration and agility,” said Greg Lotko, senior vice president and general manager of Broadcom's mainframe software division. “We are providing support for the new platform across our entire software portfolio. What sets Broadcom apart is our deep investment in technology and the way we work hand in hand in partnership with our customers to overcome their unique challenges and create new opportunities.”
As a member of the z16 Early Ship program, Broadcom collaborated with IBM to ensure customers can capitalize on the full range of our mainframe software solutions on the new platform to drive progress toward their innovation and business goals.
“Nothing compares to the transaction performance of a mainframe, and the way we manage the platform using Broadcom technology is a real differentiator for us,” said Johan Bosch, CEO of iOCO Infrastructure Services. “We can provide our services at 25% of the cost when compared to independent banking environments. Having Broadcom as a partner truly allows us to deliver unique innovation.”
Areas where customers can enhance Broadcom's strategic value include:
- Applying AI and Automation for Operational Resilience – Using Algorithms Tuned for the Mainframe Broadcom solutions reduce manual efforts by 40%, identify root causes 5x faster, and predict issues before they occur to keep operations running smoothly .
- Establishing holistic security to protect against cyber threats – Broadcom mainframe security and compliance solutions take a layered approach that goes beyond encryption to protect business-critical data and simplify compliance processes.
- Taking an “Open-First” approach to integrating mainframe as part of your hybrid cloud – Broadcom enables integrations between open software and our solutions, allowing choice of tools across teams and making the experience of integrating and working with the mainframe like any other another platform or cloud.
- Leverage custom partner programs that go “beyond code” to meet unique needs – These “Beyond Code” programs add value to drive business success with the platform. Programs include Specialized Change Planning, Mainframe Resource Intelligence Health Scans, Mainframe Consumption-Based Licensing, and more.
Leveraging AI
With IT teams often siled and operational data growing exponentially, it is becoming increasingly difficult to identify, analyze and resolve issues before they impact the business. Broadcom applies the power of AI to IT operations, combining critical system data, machine learning and automation, enabling organizations to build a new level of operational resilience.
Broadcom's AIOps automation solutions take customers beyond passive observability by using mainframe-tuned AI algorithms to deliver in-context data and important surface alerts. Augmenting the human experience with AI produces greater transparency and actionable insights that drive more efficient automation. Companies are reducing manual efforts by 40%, identifying root causes 5x faster, and predicting issues before they occur to keep operations running smoothly.
“We have partnered with Broadcom, leveraging Mainframe Operational Intelligence (MOI) to ensure system efficiency and resilience,” said Stijn Van Den Bosch, specialist systems engineer at Socialistische Mutualiteiten (NVSM). “MOI provides meaningful and actionable insights, putting us in a much better position to continue to provide the high-quality services our businesses and our customers demand.”
Protection against cyber threats
Today's digital society presents a rich target world for rapidly evolving cyber threats, as well as an increasingly complex compliance landscape. Broadcom mainframe security and compliance solutions take a comprehensive approach to protecting business-critical data and simplifying compliance processes.
Data protection requires a layered approach that goes beyond encryption. The z16 offers Quantum-Safe encryption capabilities. This is a significant advance, but only part of the security equation. Ultimately, encryption is only as good as the humans protecting the keys. It is still essential to plan for other security exposures. Broadcom's comprehensive portfolio includes enterprise security managers (ACF2 and Top Secret), multi-factor authentication, privileged user management, data classification and discovery, and cybersecurity event management capabilities that businesses need.
Business lines today face audits that have grown in number and frequency. They have also shifted to having a more application and data-centric focus. Security teams face increasing demands as they are regularly called upon to assist throughout the audit process.
Broadcom compliance solutions like Security Insights open access to data from multiple sources for integration, self-service and automation. This allows all relevant parties to work together on risk assessment and remediation plans to ensure your organization maintains compliance.
“Governments and enterprises are looking for ways to mitigate the risk created by a complex hybrid cloud environment,” said Ravi Patil, Director of Mainframe Security Solutions at Broadcom. “By combining the enhanced encryption capabilities of z16 and Broadcom’s industry-leading security and compliance solutions, customers can proceed with confidence, mitigate risk and continue to generate superior business value from their mainframe.”
