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Mainframes Still Important to the Enterprise
By Ericka Chickowski on 2009-08-27


CA recently polled 100 technology executives at companies that use IBM System z mainframes. They reported that their loyalty to mainframe technology stems from its ability to meet requirements for reliability, resilience, security, management, and compliance.

See also: The Mainframe Career Option.
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Surveyed executives were from companies with between $500 million to more than $10 billion in revenue. More than 35% were from the financial sector.

Respondents reported an average of 38% of their budgets go to mainframes, 56% to distributed platforms and 6% to cloud solutions.

Approximately 81% listed limited data center floor space as a major reason to push growing amounts of information through a single mainframe versus more distributed servers.

97% felt that at least some of their distributed applications would fail should they lose availability in the mainframe.

Around 67% said that as the distributed infrastructure grows, the ability to run multiple applications on a single mainframe becomes more attractive.

About 70% of respondents cited the aging workforce in the mainframe space as a critical pain point for the organization.Over half of executives said mainframe Linux is growing in its importance within the organization.

Approximately 44% said they increase workloads for the mainframe in the next two years over the amount being handled in the past two years.

Mainframes are most popular among respondents for transactional applications, disaster recovery and database management.

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