Market Situation:

The cost, performance and stability of z/OS Mainframe computers has led to a renaissance of “Big Iron” in the market. At the same time the DB2 DBAs needed to manage this growth are rapidly decreasing due to retirement, redeployment to higher-value initiatives, and turnover as scarcity - driven salary increases.

The DB2 DBA talent shortage is global; traditional outsourcing therefore is not a solution. Training is at best a long-term option. There are few university and corporate training opportunities for Mainframe database administration skills and on-the-job apprenticeship programs take years to mature. 

Achieve Operational Excellence of your z/OS Environment 

The solution to the clash between supply and demand is to dramatically improve productivity through scaleable, automated process design and an expert managed services delivery model. The emerging model is Data Infrastructure as a Managed Service, or Data IM.

Operational excellence of the data infrastructure environment means 24x7x365 global coverage, customer specific SOPs, less than 15 - minute response times, proactive performance optimization and tuning, autonomic self-learning process design, all combined with a best practice service culture. 

The Mainframe Trend to Data IM  

·        Data volumes are growing exponentially

·        zSeries is fast, stable, scaleable and flexible

·        zSeries cost-to-own is falling, cost-to-operate rising

·        Data availability is mission - critical - outages can be catastrophic

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