IBM, which is seeing a continued resurgence in the mainframe space, is offering new migration services and financial incentives in hopes of luring away some HP and Sun Unix customers.
As IT seeks to cut costs in the face of declining budgets by every means possible, the mainframe now appears to be a likely source of cost savings and a likely target of platform cutting. It's been a long-standing idea that the mainframe is costly, and with enterprise apps more easy to migrate, deep-sixing a mainframe or two is easier than ever. On the contrary, over the last three years, many users have found that, in many situations migrating applications to the mainframe is a source of total cost of ownership (TCO) savings of up to 50%. So in this era of stringent cost cutting, which strategy should IT employ: move more apps onto the mainframe or move all apps off it? The answer is, of course, that it depends.
The Blue Live Group publishes a weekly podcast, also known as BlueRadio (www.blueradio.nl). In this episode they talk about the 45th anniversary of the IBM Mainframe.
Today's most competitive businesses are using System z as a primary platform for modern applications and data analytics. They're also reducing costs by leveraging the superior virtualization, management and integration capabilities of the mainframe.
