Wow, those are big numbers! Thank you, Tom. This seems to be a good thing to be shared with techies, but specially with management. I'm looking forward to it.
Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Lucas Rosalen* Emails: rosalen.lu...@gmail.com / *lrosa...@br.ibm.com <lrosa...@br.ibm.com>* LinkedIn: http://br.linkedin.com/in/lrosalen Phone: +55 19 9-8146-7633 2015-03-10 15:47 GMT-03:00 Tom Marchant < 0000000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>: > I just received word of this and thought others on the list might find it > interesting. > > > Compuware is hosting a webcast with renowned expert in technology > economics, > Dr. Howard Rubin. Dr. Rubin will be presenting his most recent findings on > the > growing consumption of technology and its impact on core infrastructure > costs. > His research compares the resulting costs for a mainframe-heavy > organization to > a server-heavy organization. > > Title: The Surprising Economics of Mainframe Technology > Date: March 19 > Time: 11:00 a.m. ET > Duration: 60 minutes > > Register at > > https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=reg20.jsp&eventid=960452&sessionid=1&key=0EAD94B1BD32920176D84E6EE6328422&sourcepage=register&partnerref=mvslist > or http://preview.tinyurl.com/lxjxg5p > > On the webcast, he will be speaking to the following findings: > > o While computing power has doubled over the last five years, > server-heavy organizations’ costs have gone up 63% more than > mainframe-heavy organizations. > o For every $1 that’s spent on infrastructure costs, Mainframe > organizations earn $10.55 while server-heavy organizations earn > only $8.22. > o Analysis across 15 industries shows that the average IT cost of > goods is 35% (on average) less for mainframe-heavy organizations, > with the greatest differences in the financial sector. > > Dr. Rubin will be joined by two industry thought-leaders, Ross Mauri, > General > Manager, IBM z Systems and Chris O’Malley, CEO of Compuware. Ross will > answer > questions about mainframe misperceptions and the new capabilities of the > z13, > while Chris will discuss how increasing technical demand on the mainframe > is > impacting IT and the entire business. > > -- > TOM MARCHANT | Abend-AID and CSS Development Team | Compuware > thomas.march...@compuware.com | O: +1 313 227 5647 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
