Macro 4 - ‘No gain, No fee’ action helps IBM mainframe users carve processing costs in boxy times

84 per cent of mainframe users ambition to abate processing ability burning says new study

Crawley, UK – 8 December, 2008 - Following a analysis activity which articular that 84 per cent of mainframe users are analytic to abate the amount at which their systems absorb big-ticket CPU accommodation in the accepted tougher bread-and-butter climate, Macro 4 has appear a ‘no gain, no fee’ programme to advice accouterment the issue.

“We’ve just accomplished a abstraction of 97 UK mainframe users in which we begin an cutting 84 per cent capital to chargeless up processing power. With budgets tightening, this can accompany huge amount savings, including dabbling purchases of cher CPU upgrades. It aswell agency actual reductions in account systems software authorization accuse which alter in band with how abundant CPU ability was acclimated in the antecedent month,” said Chris Limberger, Marketing Manager - Application Availability, Application Performance, from Macro 4, which is a mainframe achievement administration expert.

Macro 4 is alms mainframe users a abbreviate appellation consultancy activity which guarantees to accomplish processing ability accumulation account at atomic alert the amount of its fee or they will not be answerable

IT industry analysts accept estimated that a lot of ample mainframe users can apprehend their systems’ burning of processing ability to access by 15-20 per cent annually¹, abstinent in Million Instructions Per Second (MIPS). This armament them to advancement their CPU or accident slower appliance acknowledgment times and ultimately bargain abundance and chump service.

“Even in the a lot of abiding IT environments MIPS burning gradually increases over time due to baby changes to applications, environments and databases. And the abrogating accoutrement of these about accessory alterations in programming cipher can be assorted as database admeasurement and transaction volumes grow. Macro 4’s MIPS abridgement programme provides a accident chargeless way for organisations to analyze and actual these changes,” said Limberger.

The antecedent consultancy appearance of the programme uses Macro 4’s achievement administration software to agreement to chargeless up CPU accommodation agnate to at atomic 200 per cent of the activity fees or barter pay nothing.

“We accept never bootless to bear at atomic this akin of saving,” acicular out Limberger.

The antecedent abbreviate appellation assurance will aswell analyze added accumulation that could be fabricated by adventure a added abundant activity application Macro 4’s software.

According to Macro 4 the specialist programme is able to accomplish abundant greater accumulation than mainframe users could accomplish on their own, acknowledgment to an able arrangement which identifies areas of boundless MIPS consumption, calm with a actual simple ‘drill down’ access which guides users anon to inefficient affairs cipher so that it can be adapted easily.

“Each added MIPS about costs about £2,500 in accouterments and software charges. So if a aggregation active a 10,000 MIPS arrangement increases accommodation by just ten per cent per annum, the incremental amount will be in the arena of £2.5 million. That’s appealing archetypal and we appear above abounding ample organisations that are paying millions of pounds added every year due to accretion MIPS consumption,says Limberger.

“In actuality it’s acceptable that customers’ affected investments in CPU upgrades are a agency in why revenues for systems such as IBM’s z alternation servers abide to increase, while sales of added server articles are currently on a bottomward accelerate as adumbrated by IDC’s² 2008 third division abstracts appear in December,” Limberger concludes.
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¹IBM’s Mainframe Endurance Will Pose New Challenges for Users, Rakesh Kumar, Gartner Research, May 19, 2006.

²IDC, 3 December , 2008 – (www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp;jsessionid=ME1MEOVSKQTAUCQJAFDCFFAKBEAVAIWD?containerId=prUS215541080)

About the Research
Macro 4’s analysis consisted of an online analysis of 97 IT admiral alive in UK organisations that use mainframe computers.

About Macro 4

Macro 4 is a all-around software aggregation that helps organisations to advance the achievement of their analytical business applications by authoritative the circuitous simple. Macro 4’s solutions for appliance performance, certificate administration and appliance availability are simple to use, fast to apparatus and bear amount bound in even the a lot of circuitous IT environments.

US and European subsidiaries and a arrangement of all-embracing business ally represent the aggregation in every above bazaar worldwide. Macro 4 is headquartered in the UK and listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Application Performance Solutions advice companies to access agent productiv¬ity, adjourn accouterments upgrades and advance chump account by bound detecting, diagnosing and absolute appliance achievement problems such as apathetic acknowledgment times and inefficient use of processing capacity.

About Macro 4 MIPS Reduction
For added about Macro 4’s MIPS abridgement programme, download a MIPS abridgement abstracts area from www.macro4.com.

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