New Global Mainframe Study from IBM Institute for Business Value: AI Drives Mainframe Innovation
The IBM Institute for Business Value (IBM IBV), in collaboration with Oxford Economics, has published the results of a comprehensive survey of 2,551 global technology leaders that investigates the role of mainframes in the era of hybrid cloud and AI.
Entitled “Mainframes as Mainstays of Digital Transformation,” the new study sheds light on how mainframes are building a strong foundation for AI workloads. Of the IT executives that participated in the study, 78% reported that their organization is either piloting projects or operationalizing initiatives that incorporate AI capabilities into mainframe applications and transactions.
Conducted throughout Q1 2024, IBV’s research reveals that organizations consider the mainframe an essential platform for implementing enterprise AI across various functions, such as fostering innovation, enhancing cybersecurity, optimizing operations, and modernizing applications.
Here are a few key takeaways of the study:
- Enterprise AI technology will play a critical role in extending the value of data.
- 79% of IT executives agree that mainframes are essential for enabling AI-driven innovation and value creation and 84% say incorporating AI into mainframe transactions is important.
- With security and sustainability advantages, the mainframe is particularly appealing to IT decision makers across highly critical industries.
- 82% of executives cite mainframe importance for monitoring, analyzing, and responding to cyber threats, while 90% acknowledge that their organization is piloting or operationalizing AI-powered cybersecurity initiatives.
- 86% say that mainframes can contribute to their organization’s pursuit of sustainability objectives.
- Mainframes play a vital role in successful hybrid cloud strategies, enabling organizations to deploy application workloads in the most suitable computing environments.
- Of all the organizations that modernized applications on their mainframes, more than 90% of executives say that modernization processes met or exceeded their expectations in terms of budget, timeline, and scope, with the median percentage of modernized applications standing at 28%.
Source: IBM
BMC Named a Leader for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms (SOAP) in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant report
The inaugural publication of the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms (SOAP) has recognized BMC as a Leader and highest in ability to execute.
According to Gartner, SOAP combines workflow orchestration, workload automation, and resource provisioning across an organization’s hybrid digital infrastructure. Increasingly, these factors are central to an organization’s ability to deploy workloads and to optimize deployments as a part of cost and availability initiatives.
According to BMC, the Control-M platform addresses the essential components of SOAP by enabling customers to accelerate business modernization, make faster, more informed decisions, and foster innovation in digital services. Successfully building, deploying, and scaling these innovations across the growing complexity of applications, data, and hybrid cloud environments necessitates a collaborative framework that unites IT operations, data and cloud engineers, developers, and business users.
“We are delighted to be recognized as a Leader in the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms report. This, we feel, is a testament to our customer relationships and helping them to achieve their evolving business initiatives over many years,” said Gur Steif, president of digital business automation at BMC.
Source: BMC
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