What are the software that can reduce the cost of the mainframe?

According to the data provided by analysts, Mainframe is a good business area, because its capacity is large enough for large-scale integration, stronger performance, lower energy consumption, can help enterprises bring total cost of ownership reduction. This will make a relatively large profit and attract a large number of mainframe customer base.

In defining a large mainframe well, it should not only depend on the speed of calculation of a single task, but should consider all aspects, its flexibility, availability, service and reliability should be considered in our scope, not only that, but also ensure that the relevant applications have better management and control. BMC Mainframe Services management sales and consulting Services Asia Pacific Vice President Trens Hui in an interview with "from the needs of China's mainframe customers, generally divided into five major requirements: reliability, availability, performance, scalability, and recoverability," our many customers in the financial industry, For example, several banks have clearly indicated such a demand, hope that through some software to increase its availability from the current 99.9% to 99.99%, the annual planned downtime can not exceed three hours per year, not more than eight times a year, that is, no planned downtime for more than 24 hours. Mainframe customers also require that unplanned outages not exceed 15 minutes. Whether it's the size of the data center or the daily volume, some of the big commercial banks in the country are trading more than 100 million a day, and there may not be a single bank or company in the world that can exceed that number, which requires software to help them provide usability and gain benefits. These requirements must be met from Third-party software companies to provide services. ”

Mainframe China Opportunities

Mainframe in China is mainly for the financial sector, the main state-owned commercial banks in the past few years have been a large concentration of data center transformation. After a large concentration of data centers, their data volume increased many times, the database management more complex, these need some software to help them. This is one of the reasons the BMC's business is growing in the Chinese mainframe market. Globally, BMC mainframe business revenue accounted for 40% of total revenue, from 2005 to 2009, the BMC in Greater China's mainframe business income doubled twice times, and mainland China 2005-2009 total income doubled three times times. In the next three years, BMC expected revenue growth will be double-digit growth.

BMC has been involved in mainframe and IT infrastructure management for more than 30 years, with a long history and experience in the mainframe sector. As early as 1994, the BMC realized the tremendous changes that Unix had brought to the IT environment, acquired several vendors, and increased input and attention to software tools and distributed environments. In 1999, the BMC acquired New Dimension, a software company focused on workflow management, which involved a number of key technologies in mainframe and distributed environment-related areas. The BMC's investments in distributed environments and new technologies are increasing over the next few years.

In the area of mainframe service management (MSM) The main three product lines for BMC include: Data management, Mainview products, and control-m&d products. "Data management can achieve better control, in the Chinese region, many enterprises are basically using IBM mainframe, such as z/OS operating system, mainly for higher transaction volume, requiring the management of large database customers," the BMC Greater China Major mainframe business general manager Chen Yongqiang said: " They are not just related to the mainframe infrastructure, but the enterprise-wide IT infrastructure, which is why the control of data management is very important. The BMC is more focused on the streamlining and improvement of mainframe processes, enhancing mainframe availability, stability, and resilience.