IT Economics (and Mainframe Efficiencies)

Thanks to cloud, big data, and mobility many enterprise IT workloads are becoming more volatile and less predictable than ever before. Traditional workload management strategies based on predefined processing timelines, workflows and processing patterns are no longer able to keep up with constant real time changes to priorities, volumes, and workflows.

Join us for a fireside chat with Mary Johnston Turner, IDC Research Vice President Enterprise Systems Management Software, and Louis Vandenberg, Automation Strategist Nike Inc, to understand how they expect requirements for workload management to evolve during 2013 and beyond.

You will learn why a new approach is needed to:
•Optimize IT resource utilization and workload performance
•Improve IT staff productivity
•Thrive in a more responsive and competitive business environment.

CA Technologies and OVUM join forces to review common challenges that developers and systems administrators face when trying to maximize the performance of the latest generation applications, and what application performance management (APM) solutions can offer to meet these challenges.

This webinar will cover:
- Latest trends in the Market including DevOps and agile work patterns
- Common APM Big Data analytic problems
- Cloud, virtual and mobile applications
- The need to maintain integrated performance monitoring across both distributed and mainframe environments

The new release of CA Workload Automation AE (r11.3.5) provides the increased agility customers need to keep up with their ever-growing business demands. Watch this webcast to hear Charlie Ealy, Advisor Product Management for CA Workload Automation, talks about how these capabilities will allow you to process more workloads reliably and cost-effectively on all platforms and in all types of environments.

In this webcast we will highlight:

•How r11.3.5 is different from the previous versions?
•Our New UI Enhancements
•New job types available
•New Migration Assistant
•Updates on CA Workload idash and iXp

Best Practices for Effective Workload Automation for Hybrid Enterprise

Are cumbersome workload strategies keeping you in the office late at night? Learn how you can avoid the pitfalls of ineffective Workload Automation strategies and what you can do to take back control.

Discover how you can reduce complexity, increase IT efficiency and accelerate the path to dynamic service delivery across hybrid applications and infrastructures. Attend this webcast and learn how to create an efficient and finely tuned Workload Automation environment.

Fielding a lot of customer complaints about poor response times? Struggling to support big data applications? Looking for ways to save money by using fewer resources? Learn from performance experts how true cross-enterprise application performance management (APM) can help you provide optimal service to your internal and external customers and reduce costs. Find out how easy it is for the next generation to confidently assume responsibility for mainframe applications and embrace the future.

Linux on System z offers significant opportunities for cost savings and IT efficiencies through server consolidation. But can you quickly recover Linux on System z applications, systems and data in case of corruption via software errors, accidental deletion, or disasters? What if there was a way you could provide mainframe-strength business resilience for your Linux on System z workloads? Discover how you can use your existing z/OS disaster recovery infrastructure to backup and restore data using to UPSTREAM for Linux on System z. Also learn about integrating with your existing CA operations management solutions to help further optimize IT efficiency and reduce costs.

Worried that you can’t find good mainframe IT talent these days? You are not alone.

College graduates with mainframe skills are in short supply and mainframe pioneers are preparing to depart the workplace, forcing IT executives to face the challenge of a shrinking mainframe workforce. What you need is an intelligent way to modernize, optimize and simplify mainframe management to preserve critical mainframe expertise developed over decades, plus shorten the on-ramp for novice IT staff to manage your most critical platform.

Learn from industry experts how you can simplify and streamline mainframe management tasks, increase staff productivity, and facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing so you can more effectively reduce the cost and complexity of managing mission-critical mainframe workloads well into the 21st Century.
This webinar examines the state of mainframe skills as the centerpiece of an effective business IT strategy and CA Technologies' strategy to greatly improve the efficiency of your entire IT staff so they can more effectively assume mainframe responsibilities.

As you move workloads to Linux on System z, would you like the ability to detect and resolve Linux on System z performance problems before users even notice? What if there was a way you could better track utilization of your IFLs and get below the surface to understand how Linux on System z resources are being used to better tune performance and provide more accurate allocation of charges? Join us for this informative web seminar and discover how Velocity zVPS™ Performance Suite can help you gather detail data from z/VM, Linux on System z, as well as networks and distributed servers, for a cross-platform view of operations across your enterprise. Learn how you can use this data to perform benchmarks and performance analysis to help determine the best platform to run your workloads.

Are you adding IFL’s? Consolidating workloads to Linux on System z? Discover how you can optimize this fast-growing environment to drive down costs and achieve the scalability your business needs to grow. Learn how CA Technologies can help you further increase IT efficiency with a growing portfolio of integrated cross-platform management solutions to help you manage operations, performance, security and disaster recovery across your enterprise. Don’t miss this opportunity to discover how you can get the most out of your IFL engines, and reduce the time, cost and risk of consolidating to Linux on System z.

Mainframes are still the workhorse of the Enterprise. Taking a look at the transaction as the “center of gravity” and understanding the end-to-end application ecosystem are critical to the success of your business. In this session, Julie Craig from Enterprise Management Associates will explore this topic and explain why CA Technologies is positioned to meet the needs of cross-enterprise application performance management so it doesn’t manage your business.

Come hear Becky Alexander describe the Xerox project to reduce costs and simplify operations by replacing its mainframe testing tools with CA Application Quality and Testing Tools. She will discuss how Xerox took advantage of the CA Mainframe Software Rationalization Program to analyze how their existing tools were being used, perform the migrations and evaluate the results. She will also assess the benefits Xerox has received from this project and share “lessons learned.”

Dr. Howard Rubin discusses the real economics of how organizations with significant mainframe and distributed computing environments can optimize their computing while minimizing their expense. Dr. Rubin, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Hunter College of CUNY, MIT CISR Research Affiliate, Gartner Senior Advisor and CEO of Rubin Worldwide, is a pioneer in the area of technology economics and has built the world's largest database in the field consisting of business, national, and technology data.

Moore’s Law (a doubling of capacity approximately every two years), has been an ally in helping CIO’s manage the dynamics of upward demand and downward cost pressure for years but market forces are overwhelming the effects of Moore’s Law and a new “Law” is now required to understand what’s next: “Rubin’s Law.” Hear from renowned expert Dr. Howard Rubin, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Hunter College of CUNY and MIT CISR Research Affiliate, about the unexpected market shift that is coming and how you can prepare for it.

More and more businesses today are realizing the strategic importance of workload automation yet not all are able to reap these benefits due to the presence of multiple job scheduling tools across various domains and platforms.

To help organizations assess the economic impact (business value) of consolidating Workloads in a single Solution, CA commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact enterprises may realize by consolidating disparate workloads into a single, unified solution. Join us in this webcast to hear Jonathan Lipsitz, from Forrester Consulting, as he talks about the cost, benefits, flexibility, and risk factors associated with workload migration and consolidation.

Escalating business demands are driving IT executives to deliver services faster, but how do you meet the needs of the business with overextended resources, decreased budget, and no time?

Join us to learn how to transform your Mainframe from a trusty workhorse to an optimized powerhouse that energizes your business service delivery.

We’ll examine how leveraging mainframe technology is crucial to an effective business IT strategy. You’ll learn best practices for modernizing and optimizing your mainframe to help you reduce costs and increase the efficiency of your IT resources.

Join industry experts from IBM, CA Technologies and Enterprise Executive publications and discover how many organizations are significantly reducing IT costs and complexity using Linux on System z. Learn more about evaluating the best place to run your workloads to optimize efficiency and reduce overall TCO.

We will review:
- Highlights from a recent study on Linux on System z adoption trends
- Comparing TCA/TCO of server consolidation options
- Optimizing Linux on System z as part of a hybrid computing environment