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How do I successfully extend our cloud-first strategy to the mainframe?

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Executive Summary

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ChallengeFor organizations running mainframes today, many common challenges remain—including incurring the wasted expense associated with redundant software licenses, struggling to establish the required integrations, running old or unsupported software or having proprietary code developed by individuals who left the organization or are nearing retirement. In addition, many organizations struggle with the cost and complexity associated with establishing effective disaster recovery mechanisms and with managing access controls and reporting required by security policies and regulations.

OpportunityTo help customers address the challenges above, IBM has developed IBM Cloud Managed Services on z Systems. This cloud-based managed services platform eliminates many of the obstacles that customers running traditional on-premises mainframes face today. CA has partnered with IBM to deliver key platform innovations that will further enhance customer value. With this platform, your organization can restructure and transform its mainframe portfolio, align it with the rest of your IT infrastructure and fully maximize all the benefits of the cloud. Before you migrate to the cloud, CA and IBM can analyze your existing portfolio and make recommendations that will not only reduce costs, but also improve operations once in the cloud. The platform offers enhanced data discovery and classification capabilities that protect data in the cloud and improve compliance reporting. Finally, the platform equips you with a variety of DevOps capabilities that will ensure your new cloud environment is developer friendly and supports all your agile processes.

BenefitsBy leveraging the combined offering from CA and IBM, your organization can reduce on-premises capital expenses, simplify your software portfolio and reduce the number of vendors you need to work with. By leveraging this cloud platform, you can protect sensitive data and access in the cloud and remain compliant with key regulations. You can create a development environment that enables you to deliver higher-quality services at the speed your market demands. By leveraging this platform, you can realize enhanced flexibility and scalability, improved technological currency, simplified management and reduced costs. Ultimately, these capabilities enable you to operate more profitably, improve your competitive position and win more business.

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SECTION 1: CHALLENGE

A New Sense of Urgency Around Your Cloud-First StrategyIn the application economy, every company is a software company. In response, organizations like yours have increasingly embraced cloud-first strategies, which promise enhanced agility and improved business services, while also reducing costs. Through the cloud, you gain inherent, immediate advantages. For example, by switching from a capital-expense model to an operating-expense, pay-as-you-grow model, you can free up internal resources for more strategic work and speed deployments.

While these up-front benefits can be significant, to realize maximum value from the cloud, it’s vital to extend these improvements to your entire IT infrastructure—including the mainframe, which houses many of your mission-essential workloads, processes and data. What’s more, the recent convergence of some unique mainframe trends and challenges has created a new sense of urgency around developing such a strategy.

For example, whether your organization is a large mainframe shop or not, you need trained resources to keep operations humming and code maintained—but the market suffers from a shortage of mainframe skills and a retiring workforce. As a result, a lack of operational continuity becomes a near-term business threat—particularly for organizations that have failed to establish automation tools or optimized manual processes.

In addition, many organizations’ mainframes are critical systems of record that support the delivery of key customer-facing applications. That is significant because your internal and external customers expect IT to be able to constantly iterate and deploy new services to market—which requires a higher level of flexibility and agility.

There’s also the high expense of maintaining technology currency on mainframe hardware and software. Organizations that do not adopt cloud-like consumption models are either forced to pay for more hardware and software than they need or risk not having enough capacity when the business grows or usage spikes.

SECTION 2: OPPORTUNITY

Optimize Transformation, Security and Agility—Across All of ITCA Technologies and IBM have teamed up to deliver the industry’s first truly viable option for mainframe services in the cloud. IBM Cloud Managed Services on z Systems enables you to run mission-essential workloads in a cloud environment and gain access to the latest mainframe technology and expertise, while shifting from a capital-expense to operating-expense model. By delivering a security-rich, scalable, multi-tenant mainframe environment running in a purpose-built IBM data center, IBM Cloud Managed Services on z Systems enables IT and line-of-business leaders to gain the agility they need to respond to dynamically evolving technology and business needs.

Through this platform, CA and IBM deliver the following advantages:

• Reduce TCO. You’ll avoid the cost and hassle of keeping your mainframe environment current, while benefitting from an operating-expense cost model. The platform features a multi-tenant infrastructure with all the required software, servers, disk and tape.

• Eliminate skills challenges. You’ll access a world-class managed services environment and capabilities that feature optimized processes, tools and automation, so you can reduce the risk associated with having to rely on in-house skills.

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• Create flexibility, scalability and security. You’ll be able to expand and contract computing resources as needed, and reduce risk by leveraging backup and failover options that deliver high availability.

When considering running a mainframe in a cloud environment, the biggest hurdle may be fear of unexpected institutional and executional challenges that could diminish or completely negate the cloud’s benefits. For example, some decision makers might have concerns about the security of data and transactions in the cloud. This is especially true in such heavily regulated industries as financial services, where protecting customer information from breaches and attacks is essential. Others might worry about the complexity of the migration or whether the cloud service will effectively support application development efforts.

Through IBM Cloud Managed Services on z Systems, CA and IBM offer a unique suite of best practices, software and services to help you throughout your mainframe cloud journey, providing capabilities that support transformation, security and agility.

TransformIn many large enterprises, the cost of maintaining an ever-growing collection of business software can consume budget and staff resources that could—and should—be directed toward more strategic initiatives. When you partner with IBM and CA, you can rationalize your software portfolio to eliminate unnecessary or redundant applications and their associated costs. You’ll transition to a more standardized portfolio that is easier and cheaper to maintain, and you will only pay for what you actually use.

“We are excited to be transitioning to IBM Cloud Managed Services on z Systems in the next few months. The flexibility of the underlying infrastructure and the CA software in particular were highlights in our evaluation.”—CIO, State and Local Government System

SecureIt’s common to be concerned about the security implications of third parties managing your sensitive customer and operational data. Decision makers, particularly those in regulated industries, need to know that their cloud environments will keep pace with ever-changing security threats and the requirements of today’s dynamic regulatory environment.

Incorporating innovative, critical security capabilities from CA, IBM Cloud Managed Services on z Systems equips customers with the ability to answer three key questions:

• Where is my sensitive data?

• Who has access to my sensitive data?

• Who has actually accessed this sensitive data?

These questions are particularly difficult to answer when operating in the cloud. However, with this platform, you can identify and classify sensitive and regulated mainframe data, while also leveraging robust controls to secure and monitor access of vendors and third parties managing your systems. The platform offers these capabilities:

• Content discovery. The platform represents the industry’s first solution that enables you to find, classify and protect mainframe data, without having to move it onto any other platform. Once the software identifies the location of sensitive data, you can determine the appropriate action to take, including whether to encrypt, archive or delete the data to prevent misuse or establish detective controls to monitor for unauthorized access going forward.

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• Privileged access management. The platform offers customers the ability to lock down access to sensitive credentials on the mainframe, providing options for strong authentication, automatic credential rotation, visibility and control over shared IDs, policy-based session control and recording of administrative activities for audit and playback.

Boost agilityMany organizations continue to develop new mission-essential applications on the mainframe. However, if they are to keep pace with their customers’ intensifying demands, these organizations need to move past their existing skill, resource and automation constraints.

With IBM Cloud Managed Services on z Systems, you can employ DevOps capabilities that encourage parallel development of distributed and mainframe applications, while reducing the cost and complexity of development and testing. The platform offers these capabilities:

• Virtualization for external testing. With this platform, customers can take advantage of game-changing virtualization capabilities, which provide a cost-effective alternative to dedicated logical partitions, known as LPARs. By virtualizing only those mainframe services needed for cross-enterprise application development, organizations can eliminate traditional availability constraints and create an environment that is available on a 24/7 basis. Powered by CA technologies, the platform’s mainframe virtualization capabilities also offer advantages over traditional mainframe emulators in that no additional mainframe software licenses are required to create the test environment. In addition, the virtualization platform can configure and throttle environment variables so that testing can simulate different operating conditions, such as Black Friday, monthly close and so on.

• Virtualization for native development. Virtualization is not just for cross-enterprise application development. With the platform, you can support parallel and agile development processes on the mainframe by virtualizing CICS, CICS DTP, Local Link and Distributed Program Link components.

• Self-service access to mainframe test data. Organizations that process sensitive and regulated data on the mainframe or operate in areas with stringent privacy laws in place need to establish strong controls around access to mainframe data. This is why many organizations have very formal procedures in place to request access to data for testing and application development purposes. In order to address the challenges these requirements could potentially pose for mainframe customers in the cloud, IBM can incorporate automated, self-service test data management capabilities from CA into IBM Cloud Managed Services on z Systems. With these capabilities, development teams can access a self-service portal in which complex test data sets can be identified, modeled and provisioned in minutes. Just as important, the system has powerful masking capabilities to protect sensitive, regulated and confidential data and can easily generate rich synthetic data to fill in the gaps. As a result, customers can streamline testing and ensure adherence with security policies, while enhancing their ability to identify defects the first time around.

SECTION 3: BENEFITS

Achieve Your Cost, Security and Agility GoalsWhen you integrate the mainframe into your cloud-first strategy, you can significantly reduce costs in a variety of ways. You eliminate expensive hardware and software upgrade and maintenance fees, while transitioning to a more predictable operating-expense model. Based on previous client engagements, IBM estimates that you can reduce your total software maintenance costs by up to 30 percent.1

1 Based on IBM’s previous client engagements.

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By leveraging the platform’s built-in security and compliance solutions, you’ll protect your organization—and your brand—from potentially damaging threats and attacks. For example, you can address stringent data security policies and comply with mandates like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), while simplifying compliance reporting.

Finally, you can leverage robust DevOps capabilities to streamline and accelerate application development in your mainframe cloud environment. Featuring capabilities for virtualization and self-service access to critical test data, the solution makes it possible to have mainframe resources available for testing on a 24/7 basis. By deploying simulated services and production environments and automatically generating test cases and synthetic data on demand, you’ll eliminate the bottlenecks of fixed testing windows and accelerate the velocity of testing overall.

With these capabilities, you can reduce application development schedules by 25 to 50 percent and detect 60 to 90 percent more defects earlier in the software development lifecycle—when they’re easier and less expensive to rectify.2 As a result, you can deliver more revenue-generating services to market, faster and at higher levels of quality than ever before—which helps you differentiate your business in a crowded market and win more business.

The CA Technologies and IBM AdvantageIBM possesses deep mainframe and data center management expertise, with more than 35 years of experience in managing enterprise data centers around the world and supporting hundreds of clients. IBM offers a cloud model for delivering the power of z Systems along with current software technology. This model can help you deliver the services you need to support your company’s mission-essential workloads and opportunities in mobile, analytics and social growth areas, while also realizing a reduced cost structure.

In addition to its own mainframe expertise, CA is one of IBM’s largest ISV software partners. Eighty percent of the Fortune 100 businesses that rely on mainframes count on CA.3 The two companies have collaborated on more than 500 successful client engagements across the globe. By combining innovative software rationalization, security and DevOps solutions with the industry-leading IBM Cloud Managed Services on z Systems, CA and IBM empower leading enterprises to modernize the mainframe and include it in their cloud-first strategies—ultimately unlocking transformational value by reducing costs and complexity, increasing data protection and compliance and achieving new levels of business agility.

For more information, see the CA Technologies Solutions for IBM Cloud Managed Services on z Systems page.

2 voke Research, “Market Snapshot™ Report: Service Virtualization by voke Research,” January 2015, https://www.ca.com/us/collateral/industry-analyst-report/voke-market-snapshot-report-service-virtualization-iar.html

3 Information based on Fortune 500, published October, 2016, compared to CA Technologies mainframe customers that have licensed one CA product as of October 2016.

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