Managed Mainframe Services Business Case

Mainframes have made your enterprise the success it is today. But is your mainframe environment flexible and secure enough to keep up with your business as it grows? Intermittent investments made in software, hardware and facilities over time can create a complicated infrastructure of intertwined systems and processes that hampers productivity, innovation, security and growth. Data loss and the possibility of a crippling breakdown become more likely as an aging mainframe workforce begins to retire. Ongoing investments are also required to ensure your business has the capacity to handle peak loads and future expansion.

To support business growth, you must manage the complexity of your mainframe environment and enhance its operating efficiencies. Possibly the most cost-effective way to improve the flexibility and reliability of your mainframe environment, and safeguard its mission-critical data and systems, may be to transition to a managed mainframe solution.

Modernization Viewpoints

HP expresses the importance of identifying and executing the right mix of Mainframe Modernization activities to achieve mainframe-related cost savings and operational improvements.

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HP provides Managed Mainframe Services that execute this transformation without disrupting your business. It includes a complete range of industry-leading mainframe management services for both leveraged and client-dedicated environments–including systems integration and automation, delivery processes and operations management. Support for your mainframe platform, storage hardware and operating software is provided around the clock, seven days a week.

Reduce Upfront and Ongoing Mainframe Management Costs

Transitioning mainframe management to HP facilities can substantially reduce your total cost of ownership. It eliminates the need for expensive, long-term capital purchases and having a fully optimized and standardized mainframe environment produces additional savings. Once workload is stabilized in an HP facility, we can improve the management of your dedicated mainframe environment – you'll retain the option of transitioning to HP's leveraged model at any time.

Modernize To Increase Operational Efficiency

If your mainframe environment is underperforming or running on outdated hardware, it may be time to modernize. HP can provide a wide range of transformational processes to help. Using our expertise, we will help you address all your system performance issues. Our tightly integrated solutions, technology and process standards, and automated operations are designed to reduce risk, improve service levels and increase your ROI.

Conserve Capital and Improve Responsiveness

When maintaining your own mainframe environment, you must make large investments in anticipation of future needs. If you invest too much, capital is wasted. If you invest too little, responsiveness is hurt. HP's leveraged mainframe solution provides utility-based pricing and provisioning – the most cost-effective means of providing more MIPS (millions of instructions per second). You purchase only the mainframe capacity and services you need, when you need them. This gives you the ability to capitalize on increased business demands without a large prior investment.

Minimize the Impact of an Aging Mainframe Workforce

HP has one of the largest pools of mainframe talent in the world. We can leverage our skilled mainframe staff to address your changing skill set and resource requirements.

Optimize Your Mainframe Environment To Suit Your Business Requirements

HP Managed Mainframe Services is comprised of a comprehensive set of base and optional service components that can be incorporated into any mainframe environment – from client-dedicated to leveraged utility. This approach delivers complete support of your current mainframe operations and drives operational improvements, leading to an optimized future mode of operation.

Base Service Components:

• Change management
• Batch processing
• Capacity management
• Compute operations automation
• Hardware asset management
• Hardware environment support
• Hardware preventive management
• Hardware refresh
• Internal audit
• Operating system backup and restore
• Operational support
• Performance management
• Problem management
• Quality management
• Request management
• Shared image support
• Software asset management
• Software environment support
• Software refresh
• Supplier service level management
• System availability management
• Technology certification

Optional Service Components Include:

• Client-Defined Software
• DB2 Environment and Support
• IMS Environment and Support
• CICS Environment and Support
• MQSeries Environment and Support
• Batch Scheduling and Management
• Communications
• Storage

Choose HP

You depend on mainframes for heavy-duty data processing. They make your business go. But a poorly managed mainframe environment can act as a drag on growth, productivity and customer satisfaction. With more than four decades of mainframe management experience, HP has the expertise required to optimize your mainframe environment. Using our global pool of resources, we can help you:

• Modernize your mainframe environment
• Standardize systems and processes
• Increase your capacity to scale quickly up or down
• Keep data safe from loss or misuse
• Reduce total cost of ownership
• Enhance compliance with government and industry regulations
• Cut CO2 emissions and lower power consumption compared to many “in-house” environments

For more information about what HP Enterprise Services can do for you, submit a business inquiry.