Hi Art, Your recollection of the figures from the keynote matches mine.
Linda Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 10, 2015, at 1:36 PM, Art Gutowski <[email protected]> wrote: > > If my notes are accurate from Ross' Keynote address to SHARE attendees in > Seattle, mainframes account for 68% of production workloads, but only 6% of > IT spend (exclusive of aggregate labor costs across platforms). Given the > armies of sysadmins to support *nix and windoze platforms, I gotta believe > labor costs on these platforms eclipse those of the mainframe. > > I am passing the webinar info along to my senior management... > > Thanks, > Art Gutowski > GM IT Senior Mainframe Specialist > [email protected] > >> On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 16:38:37 -0300, Lucas Rosalen <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> 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: [email protected] / *[email protected] >> <[email protected]>* >> LinkedIn: http://br.linkedin.com/in/lrosalen >> Phone: +55 19 9-8146-7633 >> >> 2015-03-10 15:47 GMT-03:00 Tom Marchant < >> [email protected]>: >> >>> 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 >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> 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. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
