IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe Readership Survey - September/October 2017 - SR6
SPECIAL REPORT and why new workloads should "If organizations take a true and be deployed on the platform honest approach to evaluas well. ating their IT platform "Getting Gandolfo also costs, especially when elaborated on the putting the total cost management challenges of in the context of a to understand the finding mainframe business metric- value of mainframe and talent, which is for example cost another common per transaction- the core applications business issue they will likely and data which still for readers. "All find that the live there." the executives are IBM Z platform going for offshoring, delivers value at -Anonymous regardless of how a much lower cost," many talented people Sardino explains. "This at a reasonable cost are means not focusing on acquiavailable," Gandolfo says. sition costs of hardware and "There are plenty of people software, but looking holistically who are very skilled, but folks at all operational costs." don't want to employ them." IBM has a team of experts to At least 6 percent of readers help organizations analyze costs surveyed plan to invest in educafor specific workloads and envition and training within the next ronments, and build a business 12 months. Other applications case as to why existing workand services on the horizon for loads should remain on IBM Z respondents include cloud, 16 percent, and artificial intelligence/cognitive, 7 percent. Current State and Future Plans Of the respondents 23 percent own one mainframe running z/OS*; 22 percent own two or three boxes and 17 percent own 10 or more. On the Linux* front, 8 percent don't run it on mainframe at all, but the remainder has at least one mainframe with Linux installed. Forty-five percent of respondents report that the mainframe hardware and software budget is static. For 20 percent of companies, the budget is growing. The applications that run on IBM Z are viewed as very strategic by almost 51 percent of respondents' organizations (see Figure 1, below). Figure 1: How strategic are your organization's mainframe applications? !ÂÄÅÆC&' ÄÂÄÄÅÆ*ÆÉÈ#"0 ÃÂÄÅÆ6)ÈÈ"ÆÉÈ#"0 ÄÂÃÄÅÆ'ÈÆÉÈ#"0 Â ÄÅÆ0È#"0 SR 6 // SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2017 ibmsystemsmag.com
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