Cloud computing and mainframe opportunities and challenges

There have been rumors over the years that the mainframe era has gone and that with more computing power on more inexpensive platforms, mainframes are disappearing, and the advent of cloud computing is speeding up the demise of large machines. Is that really the case? Recently, http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13360.html ">CA Technologies General manager Dayton Semerjian shared his views on this rumor.

Dayton said that the advent of cloud computing would stifle mainframe business, a joke in the current host market. That's not a hollow assertion, according to IDC, where global mainframe sales reached $10.5 billion trillion in 2011. Dayton provides a presentation of the analysis data tables within the CA, as shown, and the volume of mainframe shipments is growing after a period of low ebb. The

CA also made a global user survey for the 2011, with 85% of respondents thinking that mainframes were important to their business, and 87% of respondents thought that workloads running on mainframes would continue to grow. On the relationship between cloud computing and mainframes, Dayton said that cloud computing would not be the Terminator of mainframes, but instead it would be a chance for a mainframe renaissance. In this survey, 80% of users considered large opportunities to be a central part of their cloud computing architecture.

Cloud Computing drives the revival of mainframes

since the first mainframe, mainframe technology has undergone several innovations, and now mainframes have the ability to spoke open distributed platform hardware architecture, coupled with extremely high computing power and minimal downtime, Mainframes are an inevitable choice for businesses running critical businesses. With the advent of the cloud computing era, the explosive growth of data brings with it the need for higher computing power, which is exactly what the mainframe has to meet.

So the advent of cloud computing does not end up with mainframes, which still survive in the cloud and live well. Mainframe business is growing, its hardware platform is growing, more and more customers will choose the mainframe, choose it as its own cloud computing center platform. Mainframe business is growing, which is a better phenomenon for the entire mainframe industry.

Opportunities and challenges

Cloud computing creates opportunities for mainframes, but there are also problems when opportunities arise. From global customer feedback, Dayton says, the CA's customers are facing three major challenges: how

lowers the customer's cost of spending. The high performance of the mainframe also determines the relatively expensive price, so for customers, reducing costs is their most concerned about the problem.

How to increase the agility of the mainframe platform. When it comes to mainframes, it is certain to think about its stability and computing power, but its agility is also limited, which is a big problem for customers.

The solution of the CA

Dayton that, based on the challenges faced by customers, CA Technologies presents the next generation of mainframe management strategies to address these issues. The CA's next-generation strategy is based on mainframe 2.0, which helps users reduce costs and maintain critical skills. At the same time, the CA also enhances agility by implementing cloud computing on mainframes, empowering multi-platform, flexible IT staff, and expanding management to support multi-vendor environments.

(editor: Heritage)