CA has announced a series of initiatives to help customers derive maximum long-term business value from their significant investments in mainframe computing technology.
The role of the mainframe continues to evolve as enterprises become increasingly dependent on highly scalable, highly available and highly secure IT services capable of supporting large-scale database activity and intense transaction loads. At the same time, people with the skills necessary to effectively manage mainframe platforms are becoming more expensive to hire and more difficult to find. IT organisations are therefore under significant pressure to improve the efficiency and effectiveness with which they govern, manage and secure their mainframe environments.
With these initiatives, CA is empowering its customers to successfully respond to these escalating pressures. "Mainframe systems power global business and support today's most critical and scalable applications, said Chris O'Malley, general manager of CA's Mainframe Business Unit. "CA's new mainframe management initiatives demonstrate once again that we are the premier management partner for companies seeking to fully leverage this essential computing platform.
"CA remains a dominant player in the UK mainframe market rivaled only by IBM and it continues to be an important part of our UK and Ireland business. We're seeing a couple of new market drivers for the mainframe, in particular, our customers see it as a "greener alternative to distributed server environments as it can handle multiple workloads simultaneously and has high utilisation rates - up to 90%, said Chris Miller, UK & Ireland area manager. "The announcement of CA's new mainframe management initiatives today demonstrates, once again, that we are the premier management partner for companies seeking to fully leverage this essential computing platform, continued Miller.
The initiatives announced include new mainframe suites, new no-cost consulting services, and simplified models for pricing and licensing. CA's new Mainframe Suites streamline critical management operations and ensure optimum performance.