The Top 15 Reasons to Stay On/Move To The Mainframe

by Ian Bramley
April 17, 2008

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0. Lowest outage costs from highest platform reliability, availability, and serviceability
0. Lowest security breach risks/costs via most secure design, encryption, etc.
0. Highest resource use efficiency/utilization for mixed commercial workloads
0. Widest platform scalability supports any workload size, mix, growth
0. Consolidates many new workloads, extends traditional workload strengths
0. Top data-serving capacity, performance, value—best Information on Demand host
0. Highest QoS, best performance with fastest response times
0. Best enterprise SOA platform; enables fullest reuse of mainframe application assets
0. Much-improved cost model transformed mainframe economics
0. Lowest power consumption, cooling, and data center floor space needs
0. Lowest staffing and support costs for enterprise workloads
0. Lowest total cost of ownership, total cost per user, and total cost per transaction
0. Best customer investment protection for any enterprise platform
0. Lowest business risk platform with best worldclass support
0. Healthy, expanding mainframe ecosystem is supporting the platform.

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