The computing giant wants your mobile business ASAP.
IBM's legacy mainframe business is making a big push into the mobile app world. Executives at the company announced a new system, System z13, that's designed to make the centralized servers—rather than trendy cloud systems—indispensable for enterprise app developers looking to handle e-commerce functions. Mike Gilfix, a director at IBM's enterprise mobile division, told Fast Company that the new server is intended for sectors like finance, where larger companies need to handle high numbers of secure transactions simultaneously.