IBM Targets Small Companies

Small company owners are feeling excitement over IBM's newest "business class" mainframe computer geared especially for them. IBM has come out with a much less expensive version for small companies, with a starting cost of $100,000, compared with million dollar IBM z9 mainframes used by larger institutions and organizations for complex tasks. The new version will be able to handle tasks that include encrypting data and processing transactions. The only difference with its larger counterpart is the amount of workload it can handle. IBM will continue researching and developing products that expand the types and amount of tasks users can perform on an individual machine.