Macro 4 - Users 'slam' vendors for not allowance to ascendancy mainframe processor consumption

Many barter agnosticism whether mainframe vendors absolutely ambition to advice at all

Crawley, UK - 13 January, 2009 - 89 per cent of UK mainframe users ambition mainframe vendors to do added to advice barter ascendancy the advance in the amount at which their systems absorb processing power, abstinent in MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second), according to new analysis from achievement administration able Macro 4.

Users are affected to ‘shell out’ millions of pounds a year to vendors for CPU upgrades in a bid to accumulate clip with ascent MIPS consumption. This may explain why a cogent amount - 39 per cent of those polled by Macro 4 - feel it in actuality may not be in vendors’ best interests to advice abate MIPS acceptance at all.

“Without these upgrades, users accident not accepting the processing accommodation to acquiesce their mainframe business operations to run efficiently. So abounding barter feel they accept no best but to absorb the money. And they are a big allotment of the vendors’ acquirement stream,” said Chris Limberger, Product Manager - Application Performance for Macro 4, which interviewed 97 UK mainframe users.

73 per cent of those polled said anniversary CPU upgrades are a cogent amount to their business and the drive to analyze IT account accumulation in the tougher bread-and-butter altitude agency that 84 per cent ambition to acquisition means to use beneath mainframe processing power.

The bad account for users is that IT industry analysts appraisal 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 MIPS.

“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 as little as ten per cent per annum, the incremental amount will be in the arena of £2.5 million. That’s appealing archetypal but if your business is growing and if you’re advancement the akin of action on your mainframe, you can apprehend abundant more,” said Limberger.

“We appear above abounding ample organisations that are paying millions of pounds added every year due to accretion MIPS consumption,” he added.

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.

One of the answers to authoritative MIPS advance is to use appliance affability and achievement administration techniques to actual these inefficiencies. This can acceleration up transactional throughput and abate appliance acknowledgment times. The aforementioned workload can be handled application beneath processing power, so companies charge beneath MIPS.

“Application affability and achievement administration is a bit like consistently accomplished affability your car engine to ensure it runs as calmly and bigger as possible. In our acquaintance even the a lot of well-run IT operations can accomplish CPU accumulation of about 10 per cent per annum. It can accredit you to adjourn that planned accommodation advancement whilst accompanying convalescent account levels. That’s why so abounding mainframe users are axis to it as they try to cut costs in the accepted climate,” said Limberger.

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¹IBM’s Mainframe Endurance Will Pose New Challenges for Users, Rakesh Kumar, Gartner Research, May 19, 2006.

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

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.

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.

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