In Mumbai: In a challenging business environment, the mainframe continues to be the trusted platform for critical business transaction processing according to BMC Softwares Fifth Annual Worldwide Survey of Mainframe Users.
According to the survey, 84 percent of respondents expected to see growing or steady MIPS usage on the platform a figure that has remained consistent over the past several years. In addition, almost 60 percent of respondents indicated that the mainframe will attract new workloads over the next year.
This years survey found that an overwhelming number of respondents were concerned about reducing IT costs in the next year with 65 percent of participants stating that reducing costs was one of their top four priorities. Also included in the top four priorities from the survey are disaster recovery (34 percent), application modernization (30 percent) both of which were stated as top priorities last year and business/IT alignment (29 percent).
IT Cost Optimization
With IT organizations facing increased pressures of reducing IT costs, its little surprise that the survey indicates increased interest in ways of supporting mainframe growth requirements while also enabling cost reduction and optimization. More than 50 percent of large IT shops indicated they would expand their use of specialty engines in the next 24 months, with zIIP engines leading as the most popular specialty engine of choice.
BMC has played a critical role in managing costs through zIIP-enablement and MIPS growth for its customers with its MainView, DB2 and IMS monitoring solutions.
BMC MainView has been instrumental in increasing efficiency and lowering operational costs for 10 years. With BMC, we have the efficient and integrated monitoring tools we need to manage the complexity of operating systems and subsystems and we can detect system performance issues before they disrupt the business. With these BMC monitoring tools which are eligible to run on IBM zIIP processors, BMC Software is yet again showing other vendors the way forward in mainframe monitoring.
FIDUCIA has now offloaded 30 percent of its MainView workload to the zIIP environment, reducing general purpose processor utilization and saving a significant amount of money.
Support of Hybrid Data Center
Following the successful launch earlier this year of IBM zEnterprise, this years survey found a strong interest in hybrid management tools across z/OS, z/Linux and other operating systems. Monitoring and event automation was cited as an important cross-platform tool by 74 percent of respondents, with similarly high responses for system/task automation (73 percent), workload/batch management (69 percent) and performance tuning (66 percent).
BMC has been providing hybrid software solutions that help businesses manage their data centers for more than 30 years. BMCs event, workload and middleware management solutions provide customers with greater visibility into their overall business across the enterprise. By integrating its mainframe and distributed solutions, BMC enables business prioritization and resolution, thus helping IT departments to meet their business-driven service level objectives.
Innovating While Reducing Costs
As previous surveys have found, respondents see availability, security, a centralized data management system and transaction speed as the primary reasons for continued MIPS growth on the mainframe.
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