Moving Off the Mainframe! The Fillmore Group...2016/11/14  · The Fillmore Group, Inc. IBM Analytics Software Reseller (LUW and z) Data Management Technical Consulting and Staff Augmentation

Help!! My Manager Said We’re

Moving Off the Mainframe!

The Fillmore Group

The Fillmore Group – Welcome!

Is Mainframe Technology Obsolete?

Current z Systems Platform

Financial Justification

Skills!

Migration Challenges

Modernization Alternatives

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Agenda

The Fillmore Group, Inc.

IBM Analytics Software Reseller (LUW and z)

Data Management Technical Consulting and Staff Augmentation

IBM Training Partner with Global Training Partner Arrow ECS

Founded in 1987; headquartered in Towson, MD

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Frank Fillmore

DB2 Gold Consultant

IBM Champion for Analytics

Founder and President of The Fillmore Group

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Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2016

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The “buzz”

“The mainframe is too old.”

“The mainframe is too expensive.”

“We can’t find skilled mainframe resources.”

“We’re going to migrate off the mainframe in 3 years.”

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This is old…

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The current z Systems Platform

IBM z13

z/OS

Linux

DB2 12

IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA)

Spark

BLU Acceleration

DB2 Analytics Accelerator Loader

IMS

VSAM

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Ansible: Cape buffaloAstara: Starfish (sea star)Barbican: Sea urchinCharms: OrangutanChef: KangarooCinder: HorseCloudkitty: Cat (maneki-neko)Community App Catalog: QuokkaCongress: RavenDefCore: Oak treeDesignate: CrocodileDragonflow: SeahorseEC2-API: ToucanFreezer: Polar BearGlance: ChipmunkHeat: Flame/fireHorizon: Shiba inu (dog)I18n: Parrot

Infrastructure: AntIronic: BearKarbor: BeaverKuryr: PlatypusKeystone: TurtleKolla: KoalaMagnum: SharkManila: GorillaMistral: DandelionMonasca: Monitor lizardMurano: Muraena eel (moray)Neutron: Spiderweb+spiderNova: SupernoveaOslo: MoosePackaging-deb: LemurPackaging-rpm: DonkeyPuppet: WolfQuality Assurance: Little brown

Rally: White ermineRefStack: Honeycomb+beeRelease Management: Border collieSahara: ElephantSearchlight: FireflySecurity: Pangolin (scaly anteater)Senlin: ForestStable Branch Management: Scarab beetleSwift: Swift (bird)Tacker: Giant squidTelemetry: MeerkatTripleO: OwlTrove: StingrayUX: OctopusVitrage: GiraffeWatcher: JellyfishWinstackers: HawkZaqar: Carrier pigeon

Open Source mascots

already taken

Scripting languages PhP, Ruby on Rails, Python, Perl, Node.js

Hibernate/iBatis Accelerators

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

Microsoft .NET Data Provider, Visual Studio

Application servers WebSphere, Apache

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z Systems supported APIs

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z/OS Connect

Capacity Citi: 150,000 transactions per second

Retailer: 250,000,000 customers per week

Resiliency Parallel Sysplex

Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS)

Virtualization

Cloud

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Other noteworthy features

z Systems Landscape

4,000+ IBM customers’ data originates on z Systems

70 - 80% of the world’s corporate data

z Systems is a cost-competitive platform for analytics

Data does NOT have to be moved from the mainframe to do analytics

Analytics on z Systems: Advantages

Hybrid platform enables customers to bring analytics to their data source on a

single, integrated platform - and that means less data movement

Reduce data latency

Minimize cost and complexity

Improve data governance and security

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A single environment for transactions & analytics that

integrates with the cloud

Real-time Cognitive Analytics

Reduce Analytic Latency

Minimize Cost & Complexity

Improve Data Governance & Security

Analytics

Transactions

IBM zAnalytics offers

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Keeping analytics data on z Systems can save

significant costs

z Systems + DB2 Analytics Accelerator

beats the competition

2xfaster

throughput

4x better price

performance

88%Cost savings

Source: IBM Internal Study; 10TB BI Day Analytics; 161,166 reports 80 users Source: IBM CPO internal study

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IBM z Analytics: cost savings + better performance

Chief Information Officer (CIO)

Chief Technical Officer (CTO)

Enterprise IT Architect

And most importantly…

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

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Key stakeholders within your enterprise

Be sure there’s an apples-to-apples comparison

of actual costs for different platforms Are salaries included in mainframe chargeback algorithms?

How about distributed systems?

Examples Telephone systems included in mainframe chargeback

10x the cost for the same storage equipment

What is the actual cost of migration?

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Financial justification: stay or move

z13

x86

Analytical Data

Analytical Data

Analytical Data

Analytical Data

Assuming 4 cores on z13 running at 85% utilization and 12

cores on x86 servers run at 15% utilization, transfer will burn

519 MIPS and use 30 x86 cores per day

ETL

ETL

ETL

ETL

System costs =

$9,864,412

Labor costs =

$393,927

Total =

$10,258,339

Estimated 4 year cost summary

Movement of 1TB of data daily off of z Systems

can cost over $10M over 4 years

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CFO’s Cloud

Opex vs. Capex CFO’s like the operating expense made possible by monthly licensing

CFO’s like to control short-term spending

Minimal investment for new projects Test new technologies and develop applications with minimal spend

Conduct proof of concept projects to validate longer term investments

Short Term Use Address temporary capacity requirements with temporary spending

Cost-effectively manage short-term projects like production upgrades

Free IT Economics study conducted by IBM

TCO and workload placement assessment Quantify run rates, migration, and one-time costs

Cloud/Analytics/Mobile/Social Exploit key platforms – including public/private/hybrid cloud

Chargeback analysis

Quantify ROI based on customer information and costs

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IBM Eagle Study

IBM Academic Initiative

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Costs

“…many clients do not have a sufficient understanding of which applications or

platforms are incurring what costs… this debate becomes based on anecdotal

information…”

Skills

IBM Academic Initiative: “Since [2004] IBM has introduced this training

curriculum in over 1,000 colleges and universities…”

“The perspective these days seems to be that future employees learn their skills

in universities or previous employment, but not through company-sponsored

training.”

“Workforce planning is critical to continuing on this platform.”

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Comments from Gartner analyst Dale Vecchio

Technology Debt

“Many mainframe clients Gartner speaks to continue to struggle with older

procedural languages and architectural styles, and haven’t shown any significant

effort to replace them. This failure to modernize is not the fault of IBM.”

Perceptions

“While younger CIOs and enterprise architects often recommend migration off

the mainframe, it’s more likely to be due to lack of true understanding and

appreciation of the platform than a conscious decision that the technology is

bad.”

“…the enterprise architect role is the key to the evolution of this platform

within mainframe organizations.”

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Comments from Gartner analyst Dale Vecchio

Lack of accurate documentation

Lack of source code

Out-of-support hardware and software

Interdependence of components Job scheduling

Integration with external systems

Disaster recovery

SLAs and performance requirements

Retraining end-users

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Migration challenges

Commercial off the shelf (COTS) software

Leverage z/Linux

Rewrite custom applications - use z/OS as a data

server

Add an IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) CPU offload – think of IDAA as a specialty engine

Use High Performance Storage Saver (HPSS) to

extend data retention windows and reduce z/OS

DASD costs

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Modernization alternatives

How ya feelin’???

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Protect, Plan and be Proactive!

Plan a “z-positive” campaign!

Gather your IBM team and Business Partner(s)

Include the latest and most accurate collateral

Tailor the message to your management’s concerns

Plan a date for your z/intervention!

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Find and gather your team…

Meet with your IBM Technical Specialists,

Architects, Lab Advocates and/or Client Execs

Meet with your Business Partner(s)

Drill down on the who-what-why

Can’t find your team? Call Us!

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What questions will be asked?

What backup do you need?

You’re not alone… Here are some GREAT resources!

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Resources:

1. Current IBM z Systems platform summary

2. IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator overview

3. System z capacity, resiliency, Linux integration

4. The Eagle Study

5. Understanding Mainframe Economics - Redbook

6. Understanding Capex vs. Opex as it applies to Cloud

7. IBM Academic Initiative

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TFG Resources:

1. Healthchecks

2. Migration support

3. Implementations

4. Education and training

- Onsite or remote

- Competitive rates

- Retainer options

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Attributions

Kim May, The Fillmore Group

Lori Bucciarelli, IBM

Dale Vecchio, Gartner

John J. Thomas, IBM

Contacts

Kim May

[email protected]

twitter.com/KimMayTFG

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimmaytfg

Frank Fillmore

[email protected]

twitter.com/ffillmorejr

https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-fillmore-9a65976

tinyurl.com/ChannelDB2

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Thank you!

www.thefillmoregroup.com