10 Reasons to fall in love with The Mainframe again…

Marcel den Hartog

October 2007

Agenda

Long Live the Mainframe

CA Today

Nice… but how do we tell others?

New Technology How to make the most of it

“Old things” don’t go away….

Long live the mainframe

IBM’s MF revenue UP last 3 qtr

IBM spends > $ 100 mln to make Mainframe easier to use Enhancements include security, systems and data

management, and virtualization

Since 2000 > 23,000 students from 300 colleges in North America have been trained on MF

PHP 5.1.2 now available for z/OS

And much, much more…..

TCO…

Illuminata Dec 2006 Title: “IBM System z TCO: Man Bites Dog”

Some highlights It does not make sense to measure TCO strictly on a “one-

application-per-server” basis

Measure with 10-50 applications on 1 Mainframe versus 10-20 blades or a grid of 50 distributed systems

MF TCO is 30-60% better than 30 Sun servers or 300 Linux Servers

TCO… 2

Some of the cost factors: Air conditioning and electricity

People costs are a fraction of those required for distributed systems

Hardware costs have shrunk (from 65 to 20% of TCO)

“Software license costs now competitive with other platforms; especially zIIP, IFL and zAAP offer even lower HW/SW pricing”

“A new lease on life for the System/z”

The Mainframe Guru

Long live the Hype

SOA will save us all

SOX & other regulations

Green is better…

Security is hot (again…)

Something to think about…

Sony’s Playstation 3 CELL microprocessor will be available in IBM Mainframes. Companies will use mainframes to run Virtual Worlds like Second Life

Press: “Mainframes are big computers commonly used for transaction processing and other centralized tasks”

We can finally walk around in our own mainframe in the future…

But it’s more serious than that…

Maybe Spiderman can protect us from evil programmers and we can speed up DB2 by using Sonic the Hedgehog??

Nice, but how do we tell others?

Internal Marketing

This is all nice but….

New applications are often NOT developed on Mainframe

Mainframe people are not replaced when they retire

We do more with less, and less and less

So: We must promote our box AND ourselves

more and better We must emphasize the good things and make sure the

“bad” things are seen in context (expensive is not always expensive…)

We have to think like “them”….

New Technology

The mainframe is getting more complex Java, Linux, Websphere, SOA etc…

“Old” technology requires new thinking Open up legacy for SOA

Networking now integrated across all platforms

Databases have “relations” across networks

Applications cross borders

Complexity? What complexity?

Complexity

Internet/Network

Internet/Network

MainframeCICSJava

DB2/IMSTCP/IP

Unix/?Transaction-Database-Application

Servers(Oracle, Tuxedo,

HTTP) Windows/LinuxTransaction-Database-Application

Servers(MS/SQL, LAMP

HTTP, Transaction)

User

Network “things”

Network “things”

Network “things”

Storage“things”

The 10 reasons… I

Security No external attacks, no malware

Access Control & Audit part of eco-system

Investment Protection 20 year old apps run unmodified on latest hardware

The co-exist with Linux & Java on same box

Can me turned into SOA apps quite easy

The 10 reasons… II

High Availability Do we need to explain???

Workload & Performance 90% of worlds largest databases

Utilization close to 100%

zIIP & zAAP for even better “spread”

Efficient interoperability Co-host multiple systems and workloads

Hypersockets between LPAR’s for sub second performance

The 10 reasons… III

Lower overall Operating Costs Less systems, lower cost

Energy

Physical space

Emergency Management Do I need to explain?

Think about the “complexity…”

The 10 reasons… IV

Scalability Anywhere from 26 MIPS for an entry-level machine to

17,800 MIPS for a 54-way multiprocessor system

Parallel Sysplex can go to 500,000 MIPS

Scalable Linux??

Virtualization It’s part of the architecture, not an afterthought

Centralized Management Hmm, ever tried that? It seems to work…..

Linux on Mainframe

Slowly winning ground 30% year-on-year growth 390 Business Partners now delivering > 1000 applications on

Linux (100% growth) 20% of IBM revenue & 30% of MIPS now from Linux

Red Hat & IBM agreed to join forces (May 10, 2007)

“Greener” than blade’s

Cost Set-up & Operational costs lower Initial costs higher

Mainly for Development

Usage Trends

Development Systems Integrated Build/Test/QA/Production Easy and quick to set-up

Specialized Applications

Security & Scalability are most important factors

“Why Choose Linux on the Mainframe," by Brad Day from Forrester

“potential cost savings, productivity gains and improved utilization rates through capabilities such as virtualization and security and systems management"

Application Development

Legacy Renewal Import existing Cobol & Natural

Full documentation including In-depth analysis of code

Migrate to Java & .Net

Keep existing investments in Business Logic

CA and the Mainframe

We’re back….

EITM: Transforming IT Management

USERS

Is IT doing the right things?

Is IT doing things right?

ITSERVICES

BUSINESS

EXECS

Strategy

Alignment

Access

Quality

Long live CA…

CA trained > 60 people in Prague

Announcement for zIIP support for 8 existing products

New releases of over 16 products

More in Beta as we speak

New Mainframe Business Unit

New Mainframe Affiliate Program

Valued Today. Essential Tomorrow.

Our five year strategic commitment, we will:

Build best in class mainframe solution support, maintenance and optimization capabilities

Drive a systematic means of customer engagement and portfolio management

Develop innovative and business compelling mainframe software solutions

Increase CA’s leadership position as the #1 independent software provider in the mainframe software market

CA & the Future of the MF

EITM

Unify & Simplify

Govern, Manage & Secure

The Unified Service Model More integration, more ease of use

A state-of-the-art SOA framework

A World Wide Mainframe BU with very strong people in the top

It’s time to fall in love with the Mainframe

Again….

Marcel den Hartog