Sun Microsystems has partnered with BEA, CSC, and MetaWare in an initiative to provide a best-in-class offering for mainframe re-hosting. The program aims to help customers cut loose from IBM mainframes and significantly reduce their IT spend on mainframe hardware, software, maintenance, and resources. By partnering with key vendors that are top in their field, this initiative can provide to customers a mainframe alternative solution which includes proven methodologies and tools, world-class hardware and software infrastructure, and services and support that will ensure implementation efficiency and minimal risk.
Why Rehost Now?
In an increasingly complex IT environment, CIOs constantly need to make business and technology trade-offs to accommodate a climate of severe cost pressures in order to demonstrate the business value of IT. Many of these trade-offs involve prioritizing constrained IT spending between maintenance of existing applications and innovating with new ones to support critical business initiatives — increased competitive prowess, launching new products and services, and corporate M&A activities. Organizations that spend large portions of their IT budgets on maintaining mainframe systems and applications need to address the following trends:
- Increasingly high costs of IBM and third party mainframe software
- High costs of mainframe maintenance (maintenance for 1000 MIPS mainframe can cost $3M-$5M per year)
- Complex and costly integration challenges for non-mainframe applications requiring access to mainframe services or data — leaving companies vulnerable to competitive challenges from more agile companies that can adapt quickly to change
- The aging, shrinking population of mainframe-skilled programmers and IT managers
- Older IBM and non-IBM mainframes are reaching an end of life and expensive replacements or upgrades are looming in the near future
- IT consolidation is bringing focus to platform strategy in order to simplify infrastructure and optimize costs across the application portfolio
- Focus on IT Governance and Application Portfolio Effectiveness Analysis drive examination of options to maximize value of legacy assets, while reducing their maintenance costs
- New applications are not going on mainframe environments due to perceptions that the mainframe is outdated
Mainframe customers have an incredible investment in custom written mainframe applications. Much of their competitive advantage has evolved from critical business processes that are contained within the business logic running on the mainframe. These customers must weigh their existing investment against the market trends, searching for a solution that allows them to shift the balance from maintenance to innovation, while minimizing their risks.
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Legacy Modernization and Big Savings
Customers who invest in legacy modernization look for significant results in the following key areas:
- TCO Reduction — A new infrastructure solution should demonstrate its ability to significantly reduce the on-going costs for maintaining the environment. These ongoing cost savings should be substantial enough to recoup the costs of a legacy modernization project, including the costs associated with acquiring and deploying new hardware and software in 2-3 years.
- Business Agility — By moving to an open systems environment based upon industry standards, CIOs are looking to free themselves of vendor lock-ins, and begin to leverage the vast array of tools, processes, and people available to cost-effectively meet their needs. In addition to gaining vendor leverage and flexibility, organizations expect to improve the agility and time-to-market of their new business solutions and IT-driven customer offerings.
- Application Modernization — Leveraging modern, extensible application platforms and new technologies, like web services, is an important factor in selecting the target application environment. The ability to leverage modern Web UI technology, to expose application logic as web services, to migrate non-relational data to relational database, and to maintain 24x7 online operations by enabling batch for concurrent data access are among specific re-engineering activities customers look to accomplish as part of application modernization.
- Preserving Legacy Logic and Business SLAs — In modernizing legacy applications, customers have to maintain business SLAs based on mainframe qualities of service — performance, reliability, availability, and scalability. They also look to minimize the risk and cost of testing by preserving business logic and automating any required transformations.
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"Our customers not only demand a mainframe-class open systems platform and proven application middleware when re-hosting mainframe applications, they also want to lower the risk and complexity of the migration. BEA and Sun work with leading services partners who have developed a repeatable methodology proven in over 120 migrations in order to deliver a complete and scalable solution designed for re-hosting mainframe environments reaching over 10,000 MIPS without impacting their SLAs. "
Mark Rakhmilevich
Director, Mainframe Re-Hosting Program
BEA Systems
"CSC clients have been able to reduce total cost of ownership, address changing skillsets, leverage SOA transformation, and avoid upgrades by modernizing their applications environment. By moving all, or portions, of a mainframe's workload to a modernized platform, companies are now able to adopt new technology and adjust business processes while remaining technology independent -- bringing about a flexibility in IT that has only recently been made available. "
Phil Karecki
Director, NY Technology, BEA Practice
Computer Science Corporation
"Metaware's challenge is to provide legacy customers with a reliable
solution when it comes for them to consider a replatforming of their core
and mission-critical business applications. It is therefore comforting to
partner with market leaders like BEA, CSC and SUN who complement our
risk-based rehosting methodology and toolset, in providing respectively a
reliable OLTP architecture, a secured project delivery and a competitive hardware
and storage platform. "
Michel Vandenburie
Vice President, US Operations
Metaware Inc.
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