Ptak Case Study: BMC Automated Mainframe Cost Management Saves Money and Lowers MLC Costs for Insurance Company

Learn how one company is paying less for MLC—without getting less from its mainframe. Every mainframe customer faces a 4% increase in MLC costs this year—but they’re not all taking it lying down. In this case study prepared by Ptak Associates, you’ll learn how a major insurer lowered the amount it pays for MLC software without sacrificing service delivery.
  • Reducing peak MSUs
  • Eliminating end-of-year true-up amounts
  • Negotiating better MLC agreements
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New Approaches to Cut Mainframe Operating Expenses

To get more from your IT budget, you need to get mainframe MLC costs under control - without sacrificing service delivery. This eBook presents tools and solutions to help you intelligently optimize when and where workloads run to improve efficiency and lower costs.

You'll learn how to:

  • Make intelligent decisions about utilization with full visibility into business impact
  • Recover underutilized capacity and reduce your rolling peaks
  • Optimize where your subsystems run to eliminate excess DB2 and IMS instances
  • Lower monthly license charges by up to 20 - 30 percent
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“Optimizing Monthly License Charge Costs To Better Leverage Your Mainframe”, A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of BMC, February 2016

BMC commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct an in-depth study of IT and senior corporate managers in US enterprises with more than 1,000 employees to evaluate mainframe strategies and how they impact mainframe operating costs. Forrester found that by optimizing mainframe Monthly License Charge (MLC) costs, these companies have lowered operational costs and increased automation, which improved their productivity. Learn about four recommendations to help you save.
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Adapt to Digital Business with Single System Image (SSI) Monitoring Capabilities for Mainframes

Meet the demand for performance and availability with simpler mainframe monitoring.

Finding and resolving issues is critical to keep revenue-generating digital services running their best. In this paper, you’ll learn how to achieve a single, simpler view across your mainframe environment before performance and availability issues impact your business.

Read the white paper to:

  • Improve the efficiency and productivity of mainframe staff
  • Maintain performance despite growing complexity
  • Shrink MTTR, reduce system outages and lower TCO

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Deliver Better Results for Mainframe Cost Reduction Initiatives

In this white paper, you’ll learn how you can leverage BMC’s mainframe cost optimization solution to avoid unnecessary MLC expenses and risks while focusing on projects that offer the greatest opportunity to deliver the highest ROI. What you’ll find in this white paper:
  • Understand why past cost reductions failed to deliver expected savings
  • Learn how to identify projects with the best chance of success
  • Discover how to save significantly on MLC costs
  • See how to avoid unnecessary changes to applications
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Security Visibility: 10 Things to Ask Your Vendor

Know before you buy. Ask the right questions of your packet visibility vendor for security systems.

If your organization needs traffic aggregation or packet optimization to bolster visibility to security solutions, there are 10 key questions you should ask when evaluating a solution.

Review this checklist to ensure your security systems get the packets required, and only the ones needed, to get the most out of your investment.
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Advancing Security Maturity with Packet Visibility

Cybersecurity is a constant battle to stay ahead. The Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model (C2M2) outlines a process to move your security posture to the next level.

In our C2M2 Security White Paper, learn how to advance your security maturity with security visibility. We cover:
  • deployment case studies
  • enabling fail-safe active security
  • active inline security systems in series
Read about how to advance your cybersecurity maturity with security visibility, delivered by packet flow switching technology.
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Tool Chaining Use Case

Service assurance and security may not seem symbiotic. But they can be.

The challenge with deploying security tools in line is that they may become a single point of failure, affecting network availability and performance. Yet top analyst, insurance companies and compliance are calling for these devices to provide proactive protection. There is a simple and elegant solution. One that allows complete control of active inline tools with baked in service assurance.

Download and read our Tool Chaining use case and learn how you can have complete control of data, as it flows into security systems. NGFWs, IDS, IPS, sandboxing or whatever tool you want no longer has to be another bump in the wire. Read how to place these solutions in a virtual chain, while removing concerns about single points of failure.

Secure service assurance, all wrapped in a performance bow.
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Optimizing DB Storage Performance for Dummies

One of the most effective ways to address database performance and cost challenges is to modernize the underlying hardware infrastructure. Innovations such as flash storage, converged infrastructure architectures, and sophisticated data management platforms can have a major impact. Learn more in our free eBook: Optimizing Database Storage Performance for Dummies.
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Integrating Flash Storage with Enterprise Applications

Enterprise applications are the lifeblood of IT. We rely on them for everything from optimizing manufacturing to tracking customer satisfaction. This paper examines the criteria for selecting flash storage in support of enterprise applications and makes recommendations based on the strengths of each flash system. Explore how to align enterprise application performance, management, and growth with business priorities through the use of connected flash storage systems.
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FICO Wins Customers with Red Hat OpenStack Cloud

FICO, a financial services provider, wanted to address small-to-medium business (SMB) and midmarket customer requests for solutions without on-premise installation. To transition from an on-premise model to a cloud- and services-based infrastructure, FICO chose to build an OpenStack® cloud using Red Hat® solutions, including OpenShift by Red Hat and Red Hat Enterprise Linux® OpenStack Platform. As a result, FICO generated US$10 million in sales to new customers, reduced solution time to market by 50%, and lowered storage and overall infrastructure costs.
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Convincing your boss that software-defined storage is the future

You’ve probably heard the term software-defined storage. But how do you define it? And what does it really mean for the future of storage. If you’ve been trying to persuade your boss that software-defined storage is right for your organization, now’s the time to arm yourself with all the right information to make your case. Learn more in this brochure.
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