Told you so!!

I could sit here and write a piece about how wonderful the mainframe is, as it is still the most reliable, most available, most secure, most cost-effective platform on the planet, but no doubt someone would pick a fight!

So I was extremely happy to read the results of the latest BMC mainframe survey, which has just come out, and much to my joy It actually proves my point, so no fight necessary!

So, what were the results?

• The mainframe is growing, will continue to grow and is attracting new workloads - hooray!
  
• The wall between mainframe and distributed is beginning to disappear - two thirds of the customers said that having shared tools and applications spanning across both platforms is very important - hooray!
  
• In fact, 29% of companies now have mainframe and distributed organised together - looking at things from a customer point of view, rather than a silo point of view - hooray!
• Labour costs are much lower on the mainframe - exactly!

So what are the concerns/issues going forwards? The usual suspects appear - productivity, costs, staff - but the ones that are coming up are those of energy, common processes across the different platforms and compliance. In fact, the areas cited as being most important for common processes are change management and service desk.

So, I must admit that I am gloating a tad, as I gave a presentation at Userworld on this very subject - when a silo dies, who will hear it? - and it would appear I wasn't alone in the forest - hooray! Now, please excuse me as I try to get my head through the door.

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tags: Compliance |  ITIL |  ITIL Process |  Mainframe |  Security |  availability |  reliability |  silo management