BMC Software

Mainframe is nevertheless important in driving business applications and services, and is a critical platform for the evolving hybrid datacentre, according to business survey management company, BMC Software.

Number of ways just as

Businesses are addressing these skills issues in a number of ways just as: internal training, hiring experienced external candidates, cross training, hiring of university and college graduates and utilising more intelligent software tools. As the mainframe grows within the hybrid datacentre, 85 per cent respondents said that the ability to simplify management across the enterprise with unified solutions was important. Russell said as Australia is on the whole a few years away from a Cloud-enabled economy, the vast majority of organisations will continue to purchase mainframes and servers to run critical workloads.

Ptak, Noel & Associates principal analyst, Rich Ptak, said, "But, it's the ability to smoothly integrate mainframe reliability, security, capacity and proven business value into a hybrid data centre or company's cloud strategy that will make it the key differentiator for IT organisations hereafter."

Today's de facto standard controller-based Wi-Fi infrastructure model is just too complicated, too expensive, and too unreliable. It's common for enterprise and mid-market network operators alike to get caught in a crossroads of compromises involving costs, complexity, features, and reliability.