Help!! My Manager Said We’re Moving Off the Mainframe! The Fillmore Group
Agenda The Fillmore Group – Welcome! Is Mainframe Technology Obsolete? Current z Systems Platform Financial Justification Skills! Migration Challenges Modernization Alternatives 2
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 3
Frank Fillmore DB2 Gold Consultant IBM Champion for Analytics Founder and President of The Fillmore Group 4
Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2016 5
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.” 6
This is old… 7
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 8
Open Source mascots already taken Ansible: Cape buffalo Infrastructure: Ant Rally: White ermine Astara: Starfish (sea star) Ironic: Bear RefStack: Honeycomb+bee Barbican: Sea urchin Karbor: Beaver Release Management: Border collie Charms: Orangutan Kuryr: Platypus Sahara: Elephant Chef: Kangaroo Keystone: Turtle Searchlight: Firefly Cinder: Horse Kolla: Koala Security: Pangolin (scaly anteater) Cloudkitty: Cat (maneki-neko) Magnum: Shark Senlin: Forest Community App Catalog: Quokka Manila: Gorilla Stable Branch Management: Scarab Congress: Raven Mistral: Dandelion beetle DefCore: Oak tree Monasca: Monitor lizard Swift: Swift (bird) Designate: Crocodile Murano: Muraena eel (moray) Tacker: Giant squid Dragonflow: Seahorse Neutron: Spiderweb+spider Telemetry: Meerkat EC2-API: Toucan Nova: Supernovea TripleO: Owl Freezer: Polar Bear Oslo: Moose Trove: Stingray Glance: Chipmunk Packaging-deb: Lemur UX: Octopus Heat: Flame/fire Packaging-rpm: Donkey Vitrage: Giraffe Horizon: Shiba inu (dog) Puppet: Wolf Watcher: Jellyfish I18n: Parrot Quality Assurance: Little Winstackers: Hawk brown Zaqar: Carrier pigeon 9
z Systems supported APIs 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 10
z/OS Connect 11
Other noteworthy features Capacity Citi: 150,000 transactions per second Retailer: 250,000,000 customers per week Resiliency Parallel Sysplex Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS) Virtualization Cloud 12
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
IBM zAnalytics offers A single environment for transactions & analytics that integrates with the cloud Real-time Cognitive Analytics Reduce Analytic Latency Transactions Minimize Cost & Complexity Analytics Improve Data Governance & Security 14
IBM z Analytics: cost savings + better performance Keeping analytics data on z Systems + z Systems can save DB2 Analytics Accelerator significant costs beats the competition 88% 2x 4x faster better price Cost savings throughput performance Source: IBM CPO internal study Source: IBM Internal Study; 10TB BI Day Analytics; 161,166 reports 80 users 15
Key stakeholders within your enterprise Chief Information Officer (CIO) Chief Technical Officer (CTO) Enterprise IT Architect And most importantly… Chief Financial Officer (CFO) 16
Financial justification: stay or move Be sure there’s an apples-to-apples comparison of 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? 17
Movement of 1TB of data daily off of z Systems can cost over $10M over 4 years Estimated 4 year cost x86 summary ETL z13 System costs = Analytical Data Analytical Data $9,864,412 ETL Labor costs = ETL $393,927 ETL Total = Analytical Data $10,258,339 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 Analytical Data 18
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 19
IBM Eagle Study 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 20
IBM Academic Initiative 21
Comments from Gartner analyst Dale Vecchio 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.” 22
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.” 23
Migration challenges 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 24
Modernization alternatives 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 25
How ya feelin ’??? 26
Protect, Plan and be Proactive! P lan 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! 27
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! 28
What questions will be asked? What backup do you need? You’re not alone… Here are some GREAT resources! 29
Resources: Current IBM z Systems platform summary 1. IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator overview 2. System z capacity, resiliency, Linux integration 3. The Eagle Study 4. Understanding Mainframe Economics - Redbook 5. Understanding Capex vs. Opex as it applies to Cloud 6. IBM Academic Initiative 7. 30
TFG Resources: Healthchecks 1. Migration support 2. Implementations 3. Education and training 4. - Onsite or remote - Competitive rates - Retainer options 31
Attributions Kim May, The Fillmore Group Lori Bucciarelli, IBM Dale Vecchio, Gartner John J. Thomas, IBM 32
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” 33
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