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Increase Infrastructure Management ROI by following these ways

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In the present scenario, where the technology is changing consistently, great achievement of a business relies on 24x7 business service availability. To accomplish a competitive edge, businesses are concentrating on improving IT infrastructure to streamline key procedures. Notwithstanding, even after substantial ventures, essential issues concerning application performance, security, management, scalability and actual utilization of available resource remains unclear. On the off chance that a business needs peak performance and attain better ROI, they need to develop highly optimized application delivery infrastructure . The Cost of Infrastructure Monitoring and Management Cost of License:  Infrastructure monitoring and management solutions can be licensed through one-time license fee or on a monthly or annual subscription basis. Cost of Product Maintenance and Support:  These are optional costs depending on level of customer support offered and if product upgrades are

Modernize or Migrate?

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For the most part, leaders who modernize or relocate legacy systems are a piece of the IT group and don't generally interact with their functional peers crosswise over lines of business. This can be a downside since a whole association's operational procedures ought to be viewed as when estimating cost investment funds or potential operational enhancements. IT pioneers with a major picture-point of view much of the time incorporate operational specialty units, for example, promoting, client administration and acquisition in their basic leadership. Doing as such not just forms the business case and interior purchase in, it can likewise better exhibit IT's vital esteem. Moreover, getting this point of view gives knowledge into approaches to IT to offer further advancement and increased the value of the business. At last, an intensive understanding by all partners can mean the difference among progress and disappointment, and regardless of which is picked – data mod

Everything you need to know about Mainframe Migration

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Mainframe migrations are always successful when you do it right. More than a decade of large scale enterprise mainframe migrations have led to best practices and strategies that establish robust distributed solutions, always outperforming their previous mainframe environments, and with more ongoing modernization flexibility and scalability. So what do you need for a successful migration? Selection of the right solution and solution provider is just the beginning. Experience gained through dozens of large migration projects suggests these 10 primary best practices. 1. Ensure that all 10 components common to all migrations are designed for and assigned clear ownership Establish ownership for delivery of each of the 10 components and obtain firm delivery schedule commitments. The 10 components are: ·          Primary programming languages (like COBOL, PL/I and Natural) ·          Secondary programming languages (like Easytrieve and Assembler) ·          Data infrastru

Why do Banks and Financial Institutions still use Mainframes?

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The rise of startups, the emergence of new technologies like big data, and faster networks. All of these are making most of us believe that distributed computing is here to replace the age old centralized computing. In other words, with the emergence of cloud and mobile computing, mainframes should soon become an obsolete technology. Well interestingly enough, mainframes don’t seem to be going out of the picture anytime soon. Ever since the launch of IBM’s first mainframe range in 1964, System/360, mainframes have never seen a dull day in business. Mainframes occupy a coveted place in various fields like banking, healthcare, finance, insurance, government, and a plethora of other public and private enterprises. Mainframes continue to be a favorite, especially with the banking sector. Major banks and financial institutions have mainframes at the center of their technological strategies. Do you think why? All this while you were told that the popular storyline is that n

What can be achieved in Digital Transformation in Mainframes?

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As the old saying goes, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Although digital transformation tends to throw out many traditional tools in order to incorporate new ones, there are still some old school devices that still hold value for leading industries, and help drive innovation. Mainframes are among those tools. They play a central role in the way major financial services operate because they provide a foundation that supports how devices function. According to  Datatrain,  more than 70% of global Fortune 500 companies still use the mainframe to run their core business functions, because mainframes hold the capabilities to manage large amounts of data that financial  institutions hold. Banks use mainframes for ATMs, in order to store transactional data because they provide a type of processing power that devices, such as ATM’s need in order to perform. “Only big iron has the muscle to run real-time data analysis and analytics on all transactions, providing these organiz