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Tailored Fit Pricing or the End of Mainframe Cost Control? Not Quite…
Mainframers need cost control solutions now more than ever as Tailored Fit Pricing brings new challenges In May 2019, IBM announced a new pricing model called Tailored Fit Pricing introducing containers and a new billing methodology. In particular, with the...
Streamline Mainframe Production With The Right Key Performance Indicators
Mainframe production - Keeping users happy is a full-time job Mainframes are critical for many businesses and need to be available at all times. But keeping the mainframe accessible is not enough. Users expect good response times. They need answers to...
How to make Tailor Fit Pricing more affordable
Since the advent of mainframes in the 1960s, IBM pricing models strategies have taken on have evolved to address a variety of customer needs. It took nearly 40 years of trial and error for pricing models to arrive at a sub-capacity model where users only pay for...
What is Container Pricing?
Container Pricing, which was introduced in late-2017, is a new pricing solution that makes scaling workloads more economical. Container Pricing is a framework for hosting simplified and flexible software pricing for qualified workloads running on z13 or z14...
Why is my mainframe system so expensive?
For most companies, mainframe expenses require up to 40 percent of the IT budget. Investing in a quality mainframe system brings significant value to many top enterprises, and yet it can still be difficult to stomach. Mainframes remain essential for carrying out...
How to Make Mainframe Operational Data Work for Your Business
Understand the mainframe's contribution to the business, determine the resources used by business services for auditing and internal chargeback, and identify any unseen mainframe issues that might be impacting business performance.
Leverage Storage Analytics To Improve Mainframe Performance
Performance bottlenecks, optimization opportunities, system configuration issues, and chargeback information — all of this information and more can be uncovered through storage analytics.
Streamline ITOA With Machine Learning
Machine learning can learn your mainframe environment faster than any one human ever could. By running behind the scenes, machine learning refines its insights with every data point and contextualizes raw figures into actionable improvements.
What is the ZETALY difference?
Analyzing mainframe logs for ITOA purposes is not new but doing it simply is and that’s where the ZETALY difference lies.
What is mainframe software urbanism?
How to Improve Mainframe Performance and Reduce Monthly Costs With Software Asset Management Whether due to redundant applications, archaic licenses, or outdated contracts, chances are that your z/OS environment is being bogged down by superfluous software. After...
