optimizing the cost of mainframe operations john whittle sales specialist

Optimizing the Cost of Mainframe Operations

John WhittleSales Specialist

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BMC and the Mainframe

BMC- One of only two companies who have never believed that the mainframe is going

away


Here’s why

Dr Howard A. Rubin – The Internal Combustion Mainframe – www.rubinworldwide.com – July 2010


Optimize IT CostsHow do you get the most out of every person, asset, or project, and make better resource allocation and sourcing decisions?

Demonstrate Transparency How do you track cost and activities in your organization and share that with stakeholders?

Increase Business Value How do you ensure IT investments and operational decisions are aligned with business priorities?

Manage RiskHow do you define and control risk in a dynamic, rapidly changing organization and IT environment?

Assure Quality of ServiceHow do you meet performance goals across physical, virtual, and cloud-based resources?

Expectations have never been higher


BSM is a unified platform for running IT

Demand & Resource Management

ApplicationAutomation

ProblemManagement

Service RequestManagement

IdentityManagement

Service CostManagement

Financial Planning &Budgeting

ServerAutomation

NetworkAutomation

ClientAutomation

IT Controls &Policy Management

CapacityManagement

SupplierManagement

Performance &Availability Management

Application ProblemResolution

Service Catalog

MiddlewareManagement

DataManagement

StorageManagement

AssetManagement

Enterprise Scheduling &Workload Automation

Change & ReleaseManagement

Event & ImpactManagement

MainframeAutomation

Dashboards &Analytics

CMDB / CMS

Discovery &Dependency

Service LevelManagement

IncidentManagement

KnowledgeManagement


BSM helps you address critical initiatives

• Cloud Computing

• Data Center Automation

• IT Cost Transparency

• IT Decision Support Automation

• IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance

• IT Service Management

• Mainframe Cost Optimization

• Proactive Operations

BSM INITIATIVES


Application modernization- Complexity can result in performance and

problem triage issues

Growing data & transaction volumes- Failure to meet service expectations and

commitments

Efficient resource utilization - Balanced use of general and lower cost

specialty processors

Mainframe skills risk- Scarcity of experienced personnel and

company knowledge

Mainframe Cost Optimization Challenges


Reduce mainframe consumption and operating costs

Use Intelligent Tools

Manage Performance

Exploit Specialty Processors

Manage Capacity

CapacityManagement

Performance &Availability Management

DataManagement

MiddlewareManagement

MainframeAutomation

BMC Helps You Optimize Mainframe Cost


Cost Optimization -- Use Intelligent Tools

Using the best tools available to support the business and IT operations.

Requirements- Minimize use of MIPs- Reduce peak period CP usage- Use new system and subsystem routines and

services- Automate processing dependencies

How BMC Helps- Constantly upgrading products to minimize MIPs

usage- Exploit new services IBM introduces- Include intelligent processing to eliminate

unnecessary work (job execution)- Example: Large insurance company reduced

MIPs usage with conditional reorg’s by 75%


Cost Optimization -- Manage Performance

Manage performance through automated monitoring and ongoing tuning of applications, eliminating unnecessary spikes in processing

Requirements- Improve performance- Automate monitoring and tuning- Reduce risk of runaway processing- Simplify and manage system proactively

How BMC Helps- Automates performance monitoring across the

mainframe enterprise- Handles static and dynamic tuning of applications- Products designed to minimize MIPs usage- Example: Kastner & Ohler reduced MIPs consumption

of a DB2 application by 46% with SQL Performance


Cost Optimization - Exploit Specialty Processors

Reduce monthly variable workload charges and extend capacity through low-cost methods

Requirements- Maximize use of zIIPs for processing IBM

authorized workloads- Free up central processing resources to support

increased business transactions

How BMC Helps- Automatically offloads DB2 performance and

utility work to cheaper specialty processors- Models capacity use of zIIPs for maximum cost

reduction- Maximize current IT investments by exploiting

new technologies


BMC zIIP Exploitation Commitment

Customers want us to zIIP enable our products Customer Council Survey, January, 2011


BMC zIIP Exploitation Results

BMC CMF Monitor and MAINVIEW for z/OS offload significant work to zIIP- Where BMC started with zIIP offloading

“For 10 years, BMC MainView has been instrumental in increasing efficiency and lowering operational costs.”

“With these zIIP-eligible z/OS monitoring tools, BMC Software is yet again showing other vendors the way forward in mainframe monitoring,” said Thomas Heitlinger.

“FIDUCIA has now offloaded 30 percent of its MainView workload to the zIIP environment, reducing general purpose processor utilization and saving a significant amount of money.”


Cost Optimization -- Manage Capacity

Optimize the balance between business demand and low cost processing.

Requirements- Improve use of specialty engines- Plan in terms of both cost and service- Forecast the impact on business - Identify problems before they happen

How BMC Helps- “What if” modeling evaluates technology – even

before acquisition if necessary- Balance use of specialty processors between

service requirements and cost reduction - Automatically model system growth including

business events- Easy-to-use modeling capabilities


BMC Capacity Management for Mainframes

Specialty Engine Exploitation- Modeling capabilities for specialty engines- All reporting tools report on the specialty

processors. - Explore benefits of moving work to specialty

engines- Model situations where measurement data

exists but the specialty processor has not been installed

Cost-reduction Options- Explore options to reduce costs through

workload balancing and bottleneck reduction


Differentiators

Accurate Predictive Capacity Planning

Identify the resources that are needed, at the right time, at the right price

Faster resolution of SQL performance problems

Accelerates CPU cost reduction opportunities

Automated Storage Management

Dynamic allocation reduces storage footprint and related failures and outages

Innovative Architecture

Optimize resource usage – dynamically leverage low cost processors


Proof Points and Metrics

% improvement in performance

23-45% improvement on average CPU time per SQL statement

% improvement in performance

40% reduction in MainView CPU Overhead using lower cost processors

% improvement in productivity

40% reduction in data access wait times during peak batch cyclesNA Auto MakerNA Auto Maker

$ cost savings

ROI of $2.3M over 5 years via capacity productivity gains


Summary

BMC offers its customers a holistic approach to mainframe cost optimization- Continuing to “modernize” products for minimal CPU usage and intelligence

processing

- Managing performance continues to save MIPs usage by– Preventing performance problems that would consume MIPs unnecessarily– Using zIIP processors for part of monitoring work

- Ongoing exploitation of zIIPs in more MainView, DB2 and IMS products- Effectively managing capacity of both specialty processors and central processors to

minimize the 4-hour rolling average (peak period)


Questions?


Predicting the Response Time Benefit of Specialty Engines

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