Mainframe

The Mainframe is Dead: Long Live the Mainframe

IT PRO – Maggie Holland – 11-18-08

Despite mainframe capacity surging from 4.5 million MIPS back in 2001 to 14 million today, and the fact that 70 per cent of businesses trust these systems to run mission-critical applications, the people with the expertise and know-how will soon be waving goodbye to working life. As such, CA has unveiled an initiative dubbed ‘Mainframe 2.0’ under which it will provide management tools to enable businesses to better get to grips with and secure their mainframe activity going forward. “Today, one big issue we have is that CA products have historically come from acquisitions. It’s time to move CA products so that they can be [managed, configured] and installed in a common way,” said Scott Fagan, principal software architect at CA’s mainframe business unit. “We’ve moving to a more browser-based, and some may say more sexy, [look and feel across mainframe management solutions]. This means that we can compete for the new talent coming out of schools.”

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