Manufacturing Industry
Mainframes have solid future, but not without pain points.
Manufacturing Business Technology, September, 2006
By Staff As computing devices get smaller yet more powerful, one might presume that mainframes are in their twilight years. Not so, says business service management vendor BMC Software . "The mainframe is participating in bigger networks of computing as one of many components," says Mike Moser, BMC's product management director.
In a survey of 600 mainframe users, the vast majority say the mainframe's future in their organizations is solid, with a significant majority increasing spending in storage management, replication and data movement, and database archiving. But there are areas of concern as well. Specifically, many companies are wrapping code to create small "service modules" as they move to a service-oriented architecture (SOA),...
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