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Help!! My Manager Said We’re Moving Off the Mainframe! The Fillmore Group

 The Fillmore Group – Welcome!  Is Mainframe Technology Obsolete?  Current z Systems Platform  Financial Justification  Skills!  Migration Challenges  Modernization Alternatives

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Agenda

The Fillmore Group, Inc.

 IBM Analytics Software Reseller (LUW and z)  Data Management Technical Consulting and Staff Augmentation  IBM Training Partner with Global Training Partner Arrow ECS  Founded in 1987; headquartered in Towson, MD

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Frank Fillmore

 DB2 Gold Consultant  IBM Champion for Analytics  Founder and President of The Fillmore Group

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Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2016

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The “buzz”

 “The mainframe is too old.”  “The mainframe is too expensive.”  “We can’t find skilled mainframe resources.”  “We’re going to migrate off the mainframe in 3 years.”

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This is old…

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The current z Systems Platform

 IBM z13

 z/OS  Linux

 DB2 12  IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA)

 Spark  BLU Acceleration

 DB2 Analytics Accelerator Loader

 IMS  VSAM

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Ansible: Cape buffalo Astara: Starfish (sea star) Barbican: Sea urchin Charms: Orangutan Chef: Kangaroo Cinder: Horse Cloudkitty: Cat (maneki-neko) Community App Catalog: Quokka Congress: Raven DefCore: Oak tree Designate: Crocodile Dragonflow: Seahorse EC2-API: Toucan Freezer: Polar Bear Glance: Chipmunk Heat: Flame/fire Horizon: Shiba inu (dog) I18n: Parrot Infrastructure: Ant Ironic: Bear Karbor: Beaver Kuryr: Platypus Keystone: Turtle Kolla: Koala Magnum: Shark Manila: Gorilla Mistral: Dandelion Monasca: Monitor lizard Murano: Muraena eel (moray) Neutron: Spiderweb+spider Nova: Supernovea Oslo: Moose Packaging-deb: Lemur Packaging-rpm: Donkey Puppet: Wolf Quality Assurance: Little brown Rally: White ermine RefStack: Honeycomb+bee Release Management: Border collie Sahara: Elephant Searchlight: Firefly Security: Pangolin (scaly anteater) Senlin: Forest Stable Branch Management: Scarab beetle Swift: Swift (bird) Tacker: Giant squid Telemetry: Meerkat TripleO: Owl Trove: Stingray UX: Octopus Vitrage: Giraffe Watcher: Jellyfish Winstackers: Hawk Zaqar: Carrier pigeon

Open Source mascots already taken

 Scripting languages

 PhP, Ruby on Rails, Python, Perl, Node.js

 Hibernate/iBatis Accelerators  JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)  Microsoft

 .NET Data Provider, Visual Studio

 Application servers

 WebSphere, Apache

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z Systems supported APIs

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z/OS Connect

 Capacity

 Citi: 150,000 transactions per second  Retailer: 250,000,000 customers per week

 Resiliency

 Parallel Sysplex  Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS)

 Virtualization  Cloud

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Other noteworthy features

z Systems Landscape

 4,000+ IBM customers’ data originates on z Systems  70 - 80% of the world’s corporate data  z Systems is a cost-competitive platform for analytics  Data does NOT have to be moved from the mainframe to do analytics  Analytics on z Systems: Advantages  Hybrid platform enables customers to bring analytics to their data source on a

single, integrated platform - and that means less data movement

 Reduce data latency  Minimize cost and complexity  Improve data governance and security 13

A single environment for transactions & analytics that integrates with the cloud

• Real-time Cognitive Analytics
• Reduce Analytic Latency
• Minimize Cost & Complexity
• Improve Data Governance & Security

Analytics Transactions

IBM zAnalytics offers

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Keeping analytics data on z Systems can save significant costs z Systems + DB2 Analytics Accelerator beats the competition

2x

faster throughput

4x

better price performance

88%

Cost savings

Source: IBM Internal Study; 10TB BI Day Analytics; 161,166 reports 80 users Source: IBM CPO internal study

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IBM z Analytics: cost savings + better performance

 Chief Information Officer (CIO)  Chief Technical Officer (CTO)  Enterprise IT Architect

And most importantly…

 Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

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Key stakeholders within your enterprise

 Be sure there’s an apples-to-apples comparison

• f actual costs for different platforms

 Are salaries included in mainframe chargeback algorithms?  How about distributed systems?

 Examples

 Telephone systems included in mainframe chargeback  10x the cost for the same storage equipment

 What is the actual cost of migration?

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Financial justification: stay or move

z13 x86

Analytical Data Analytical Data Analytical Data Analytical Data

Assuming 4 cores on z13 running at 85% utilization and 12 cores on x86 servers run at 15% utilization, transfer will burn 519 MIPS and use 30 x86 cores per day

ETL ETL ETL ETL

System costs =

$9,864,412

Labor costs =

$393,927

Total =

$10,258,339

Estimated 4 year cost summary

Movement of 1TB of data daily off of z Systems can cost over $10M over 4 years

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CFO’s Cloud

 Opex vs. Capex

 CFO’s like the operating expense made possible by monthly licensing  CFO’s like to control short-term spending

 Minimal investment for new projects

 Test new technologies and develop applications with minimal spend  Conduct proof of concept projects to validate longer term investments

 Short Term Use

 Address temporary capacity requirements with temporary spending  Cost-effectively manage short-term projects like production upgrades

 Free IT Economics study conducted by IBM  TCO and workload placement assessment

 Quantify run rates, migration, and one-time costs

 Cloud/Analytics/Mobile/Social

 Exploit key platforms – including public/private/hybrid cloud

 Chargeback analysis

 Quantify ROI based on customer information and costs

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IBM Eagle Study

IBM Academic Initiative

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Costs “…many clients do not have a sufficient understanding of which applications or platforms are incurring what costs… this debate becomes based on anecdotal information…” Skills IBM Academic Initiative: “Since [2004] IBM has introduced this training curriculum in over 1,000 colleges and universities…” “The perspective these days seems to be that future employees learn their skills in universities or previous employment, but not through company-sponsored training.” “Workforce planning is critical to continuing on this platform.”

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Comments from Gartner analyst Dale Vecchio

Technology Debt “Many mainframe clients Gartner speaks to continue to struggle with older procedural languages and architectural styles, and haven’t shown any significant effort to replace them. This failure to modernize is not the fault of IBM.” Perceptions “While younger CIOs and enterprise architects often recommend migration off the mainframe, it’s more likely to be due to lack of true understanding and appreciation of the platform than a conscious decision that the technology is bad.” “…the enterprise architect role is the key to the evolution of this platform within mainframe organizations.”

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Comments from Gartner analyst Dale Vecchio

 Lack of accurate documentation  Lack of source code  Out-of-support hardware and software  Interdependence of components

 Job scheduling  Integration with external systems  Disaster recovery

 SLAs and performance requirements  Retraining end-users

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Migration challenges

 Commercial off the shelf (COTS) software  Leverage z/Linux  Rewrite custom applications - use z/OS as a data

server

 Add an IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA)

 CPU offload – think of IDAA as a specialty engine  Use High Performance Storage Saver (HPSS) to

extend data retention windows and reduce z/OS DASD costs

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Modernization alternatives

How ya feelin’???

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Protect, Plan and be Proactive!

 Plan a “z-positive” campaign!  Gather your IBM team and Business Partner(s)  Include the latest and most accurate collateral  Tailor the message to your management’s concerns  Plan a date for your z/intervention!

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Find and gather your team…

 Meet with your IBM T

echnical Specialists, Architects, Lab Advocates and/or Client Execs

 Meet with your Business Partner(s)  Drill down on the who-what-why  Can’t find your team? Call Us!

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What questions will be asked? What backup do you need?

You’re not alone… Here are some GREAT resources!

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Resources:

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Current IBM z Systems platform summary

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IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator overview

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System z capacity, resiliency, Linux integration

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The Eagle Study

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Understanding Mainframe Economics - Redbook

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Understanding Capex vs. Opex as it applies to Cloud

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IBM Academic Initiative

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TFG Resources:

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Healthchecks

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Migration support

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Implementations

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Education and training

• Onsite or remote
• Competitive rates
• Retainer options

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Attributions

 Kim May, The Fillmore Group  Lori Bucciarelli, IBM  Dale

Vecchio, Gartner

 John J. Thomas, IBM

Contacts

 Kim May

 kim.may@thefillmoregroup.com  twitter.com/KimMayTFG  https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimmaytfg

 Frank Fillmore

 frank.fillmore@thefillmoregroup.com  twitter.com/ffillmorejr  https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-fillmore-9a65976  tinyurl.com/ChannelDB2  Flipboard for iPad, iPhone, Android: “BigData”

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Thank you!

www.thefillmoregroup.com