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By Ericka Chickowski on 2009-08-26
CA recently polled 100 technology executives at companies that use IBM System z mainframes. They reported that their loyalty to mainframe technology stems from its ability to meet requirements for reliability, resilience, security, management, and compliance.
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- Surveyed executives were from companies with between $500 million to more than $10 billion in revenue. More than 35% were from the financial sector.
- Respondents reported an average of 38% of their budgets go to mainframes, 56% to distributed platforms and 6% to cloud solutions.
- Approximately 81% listed limited data center floor space as a major reason to push growing amounts of information through a single mainframe versus more distributed servers.
- 97% felt that at least some of their distributed applications would fail should they lose availability in the mainframe.
- Around 67% said that as the distributed infrastructure grows, the ability to run multiple applications on a single mainframe becomes more attractive.
- About 70% of respondents cited the aging workforce in the mainframe space as a critical pain point for the organization.Over half of executives said mainframe Linux is growing in its importance within the organization.
- Approximately 44% said they increase workloads for the mainframe in the next two years over the amount being handled in the past two years.
- Mainframes are most popular among respondents for transactional applications, disaster recovery and database management.
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