BMC Survey Indicates Mainframes Provide Fast, Continuous Service That Drives Digital Business Initiatives

SINGAPORE – 2 NOVEMBER 2016 — BMC, the global leader
in IT solutions for the digital enterprise, today announced the results of its
11th annual Mainframe Research Report, showing that digital business has
measurable effects on the demand for the mainframe to deliver fast, continuous service.
The survey – the industry’s largest mainframe survey with more than 1,200
executives’ and technical professionals’ perspectives included – also indicated
that mainframes are a critical core IT platform supporting the volume and
velocity of data and transactions being created by digital business.

With nearly 60 percent of companies seeing increased data and
transaction volumes, and a growing number of databases, companies continue to
select the mainframe as a key platform. The mainframe is a highly secure,
superior data and transaction server, particularly as digital business adds
unpredictability and volatility to workloads.

“The 2016 BMC Mainframe Research Report presents compelling
data about the current demand and future outlook for mainframes in digital
business. With 89 percent of survey respondents projecting continued strong
support for the mainframe, it is clear that companies view the mainframe as a
long-term platform,” said Bill Miller, president of ZSolutions
Optimization at BMC. “BMC helps customers transform their mainframes for
digital business by helping them optimize their systems, data, and costs.”

Respondents surveyed fall into three groups based on their
mainframe investment strategies:

– 58 percent of companies surveyed are in the increasing group
and looking to grow their investment and use of the mainframe.

– 23 percent indicate they will keep a steady amount of work on
the mainframe.

– Only 19 percent plan to reduce the usage of the platform.

Executives planning to grow their investment see value in the
mainframe for its availability, performance, and security strengths. These
respondents often have growing revenues and are focused on modernization and
taking advantage of technologies such as Java, advanced automation, and
lower-cost specialty mainframes. Respondents who plan to remain steady, view
mainframes as a secure and highly available engine for running their
businesses, but are not looking to add new workloads.

Many companies surveyed are concentrated on addressing
increasing demands, including the rapidly growing speed of application
requirements, and higher levels of volatility and workload unpredictability.
Mainframe organizations manage these challenges well through various strategies
and innovative technologies. Eighty-eight percent of companies in the
increasing group indicate they run Java applications on the mainframe,
primarily to address new digital requirements from customers.

“IT departments are moving toward centralized, virtualized, and
highly automated environments. This is being pursued to drive cost and
processing efficiencies. Many companies realize that the Mainframe has provided
these benefits for many years and is a mature and stable environment,” said
Frank Cortell, director of Information Technology, Credit Suisse. “Companies
are considering the Mainframe an integral part of their IT strategy and one
that will help them reach their future financial and business goals.”

“Each year, the annual BMC mainframe survey provides insights
that are critical to organizations for planning and strategy. This year, the
study underpins the impact of digital in driving higher data and transaction
volumes on this critical platform and those organizations that are increasing
their capacity and workloads on the mainframe can be more confident than ever
about its reliability, security, flexibility and performance. Significant
mainframe growth is still ahead of us.” said Peter Carr, CEO of Peter Carr
Advisory.

In the year ahead, respondents also plan to take actions that
help optimize their data, systems, and costs. Cost optimization, compliance,
application availability, and application modernization were indicated as top
priorities, which can be associated with the impact of digital business.

To register for the results webinar, visit http://bit.ly/2cESVUK

To read the full 2016 BMC Mainframe Research Report, visit http://www.bmc.com/mainframesurvey