Managing IT and Your Business – Optimizing Mainframe Cost and Performance

Peter Plevka, BMC Software

Managing IT and Your Business – Optimizing Mainframe Cost and Performance

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Agenda

Market Analysis

Why BMC Mainview ?

Mainview Solution Details


Optimize IT CostsHow do you get the most out of every person, asset, or project, and make better resource allocation and sourcing decisions?

Improve Quality of Service How do you meet the performance expectations of your internal and external customers?

Manage Risk How do you define and control risk?

Increase Business ImpactHow do you ensure IT investments and operational decisions are aligned with business priorities?

Provide Transparency How do you track cost and activities in your organization and share that with stakeholders?

Expectations


Improve AvailabilityOn average, large companies lose 10-15% of their revenue due to downtime

Exceed Service Level Commitments85% of companies have difficulty meeting service commitments

Reduce Mainframe CostsCompanies typically buy more capacity every 18-24 months

Assure Recoverability34% of customers rate disaster recovery in their top 3 challenges

Challenges


Agenda

Market Analysis

Why BMC Mainview ?



The BMC MainView Solutions


SYSA

CMF, z/OS& USS

TCP/IPVTAM

SystemAutomation

CICS, DB2,IMS, MQ

AutomationStorage WebSphere

zVMzLINUX

Why BMC ? Mainframe Centric

Alarm & Alert ManagerExplorer

Logger

• Data Model• Common Services

MainViewExplorer

3270Workstation

Common Infrastructure removes hardware and software layers.


Why BMC ? Less CPU Cost

- MIPS Included in the study: 5,500- 2 Physical Machines with 6 LPARS- Installed sub-systems: CICS, IMS, DB2, MQ


Why BMC ? Exploiting zIIPs

Environment: • MIPS Included in the study: 18,007• 3 Physical Machines with 5 LPARS

Savings = Technical metric * Business metric• Technical Metric – 160 MIPS Saved by efficient monitoring• Technical Metric – 15 MIPS Saved by offloading to zIIPs• Business Metric – $3,578 / MIPS for large environment• Savings = $626,150 / year [$572,480 + $53,670 [zIIP]]


Agenda

Market Analysis

Why BMC Mainview ?



The BMC MainView Solutions – Monitoring

Monitor z/OS, USS, z/VM, and zLinux platforms

CICS, DB2, IMS, WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Application Server, Network (IP, VTAM)

Optimize and manage workloads on GP and zIIP, zAAP and IFL engines

Reduce downtime through faster problem isolation, diagnosis and resolution

Proactive Notification- Manage by alarms- Consolidated exception management across the MF

enterprise- Eliminate false alarms


The BMC MainView Solutions – Automation

BMC MainView Automation- Effective event creation, escalation and response - Code-less rules & out-of-the-box automation functions- Built-in, integrated performance information from all

MainView data- Gateway into Business Service Management


The BMC MainView Solutions – Capacity Management

Manage capacity to support your business- Defer upgrades through effective capacity

management- Predict your business needs - Report on performance- Include business metrics in performance

management


The BMC MainView Solutions – Performance Optimization

BMC MainView Batch Optimization- Get more batch done in less time- Ensure Online availability for key business

applications- Run STEPs and JOBs in parallel- No JCL changes (plug and play)


The BMC MainView Solutions – Storage Management

Manage mainframe storage to protect your business- Effective storage allocation

Eliminate space related ABENDS- Valuable storage reporting

Ensure efficient storage management through historical reporting and trending

- Automated storage management Data Set Sizing Assist reduces unused storage


The BMC MainView Solutions – Transaction Management

Manage transactions that drive your business- Track complex transactions through the z/OS enterprise- Understand transaction flow


The BMC MainView Solutions –Middleware Management

BMC recently acquired MQSoftware - Aug 2009- Positions BMC as the industry’s strongest middleware and

transaction management solutions provider

Monitoring of messaging middleware and business transactions:- Across both mainframe and distributed systems.

Complete line of middleware and transaction management solutions:- Performance and availability - Transaction/application monitoring- Middleware management and administration


Accelerate Enterprise Problem Resolution

Shorten war room scenarioMonitor and manage - Transactions- Applications- middleware, - and server usage

Web Server Farm

ApplicationServer

DatabaseServer

MQ server

Distributed

CICS

IMS DB2 / IMS

MainframeEnterprise

WebSphere MQ


BMC Customers Optimize Their Mainframe Costs

Moved 30% of general processing MIPS consumption to zIIPEstimated savings of $300K annually

ROI of $2.3M over 5 years via capacity productivity gains

Reduced maintenance outages to 12 hours per yearSavings of $1.7M annually

Reduced CPU consumption by 35% by tuning applications Delayed a CPU upgrade


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Managing IT and Your Business – Optimizing Mainframe Cost and Performance