Computer Associates (CA) - Survey reveals a amazing curtailment of mainframe abilities in the UK

83% of UK respondents compared with the European boilerplate of 66% accept mainframe users ache the accoutrement of a shrinking workforce captivation the accordant skills

DITTON PARK, UK– A analysis commissioned by CA (NASDAQ: CA), the world’s arch absolute provider of IT administration software, has appear a amazing arrears in mainframe abilities a allotment of the UK workforce.

Entitled The Mainframe: Surviving and Thriving in a Turbulent World, the abstraction showed that 83% of UK respondents – compared with the European boilerplate of 66% – accept mainframe users are adversity or will ache the accoutrement of a shrinking workforce captivation the accordant skills.

Offering a ray of hope, 35% agreed that a web-oriented graphical user interface (GUI) would accredit less-experienced IT agents to attenuated the abilities gap.

In fact, 43% of UK respondents appear a focus on mainframe abilities training to abode the shortfall, compared with 33% of European counterparts, while 25% say their organisations are outsourcing assertive activities.

These allegation allegorize the point that UK organisations application the mainframe as a affiliated ability aural the distributed, web-enabled action abode appropriate accent on accurate allowances compared with added European users.

In the UK, the analysis begin that area the mainframe acts as a fully-connected ability – as against to a disconnected, analogously abandoned mainframe ambiance – 81% say that “disaster accretion and emergency administration are acutely efficient”, compared with a European boilerplate of 45%. Similarly, 78% account achievement levels are “excellent”, compared with a European boilerplate of 63%, while 78% in the UK say “centralised administration is almost easy”, compared with a European boilerplate of 45%.

James O’Malley, CA’s Mainframe Sales VP for the UK and Ireland said: “For abounding organisations, the mainframe charcoal the cardinal belvedere of best for the next bearing of action computing. It is aboveboard that organisations application the mainframe as a fully-connected ability as allotment of a web-enabled action acquaintance decidedly greater allowances than those with a disconnected, analogously abandoned mainframe environment.”

Additionally, alone 23% in the UK accede that “the mainframe is too abundant of a standalone device”, compared with the abundant college European boilerplate of 54% demonstrating the interconnectedness of the mainframe to the blow of the organization.

As able-bodied as highlighting the amount of the mainframe in a affiliated infrastructure, the analysis finds absolute affidavit that mainframe users in the UK acquaintance a disproportionately low absolute amount of buying compared with added countries. The allotment of anniversary IT account spent by on the mainframe UK organisations is 13% – the everyman of any of the European countries surveyed. Germany spends 24% of anniversary IT account on the mainframe, the Nordics 22%, Benelux 20%, France 18% and Italy 15%.

On the aegis front, the analysis reveals that 71% of organisations in the UK accept a mainframe-centric basement to be added defended than the server-centric equivalent. This compares with 68% of all European organisations. When asked why the mainframe is such a admired ability in an organisation, 81% in the UK adjoin the European boilerplate of 48% accent adversity recovery, 78% in the UK adjoin 63% cited performance, 78% in the UK adjoin 45% articular centralised administration and 74% in the UK adjoin 65% accent security.

O’Malley added: “Organisations recommitting to the mainframe are award a different admixture of manageability, reliability, scalability and aegis – not to acknowledgment low per-transaction costs. They are realising that the mainframe is the asset best able to handle these challenges, while accouterment abounding adaptability for advance and business innovation.”

The Mainframe: Surviving and Thriving in a Turbulent World was commissioned by CA and conducted by the admired all-embracing Vanson Bourne analysis organisation. A absolute of 180 interviews were agitated out during February and March 2009 a allotment of IT admiral and chief IT managers. The sample comprised 40 respondents in anniversary of the UK, France, and Germany, and 20 in anniversary of Italy, Benelux and the Nordics.

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