Larry Strickland, DataKinetics' Chief Products Officer and an IBM Champion, believes the IBM Z platform is all about ROI.
"The most important thing to know about mainframe cost optimization is that mainframes are designed to be cost-effective," he says. "Choosing to host workloads on mainframes sets you up for financial success by default. It’s not as if mainframes are hard to cost-optimize; on the contrary, mainframes are designed to save you money without compromising performance or reliability."
Strickland recently published a piece at Planet Mainframe full of ideas for maximizing mainframe returns. Common pitfalls include:
- Lack of cost visibility
- Underestimating software licensing costs
- Unnecessary migrations
Instead, Strickland suggests the two most-important ways to maximize ROI are keeping existing IBM Z workloads running, and modernizing mainframe environments.
Read more at Planet Mainframe.