Mainframe Cost Optimization (MCO)

Optimize your mainframe systems
Reduce costs. Boost services.

Reduce mainframe costs and increase efficiency with resource-conserving technologies, intelligent automation, and usage of low-cost specialty engines.

MCO Overview
MIPS/MSU
Reduction
Business
Availability
Application
Performance
Cross Enterprise
Management

Get proven solutions for reducing mainframe costs

Your mainframe does the heavy lifting in your data center. But along with everything else in your IT environment, mainframe operations are facing budget constraints.

You need proven methods to reduce mainframe costs, while maintaining the service levels your business demands.

BMC offers intelligent solutions to make mainframe systems run at peak performance—increasing efficiency and lowering costs. With BMC mainframe solutions, you can:

Reduce MIPS/MSU consumption to maximize your computing resources at the lowest cost.
Improve business availability by minimizing planned and unplanned outages.
Optimize application performance to prevent and remediate problems.
Manage systems and applications across the enterprise and gain control of your IT environment through a comprehensive view that enables monitoring and workload automation.

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Reduce mainframe processing and keep costs low

The way your mainframe runs workloads can make a big impact on your costs. When mainframe processing spikes and your MIPS/MSU increase, your costs increase. BMC has proven technology to make your mainframe work more efficiently.

Because BMC mainframe solutions are engineered to consume less CPU, you see immediate cost and efficiency benefits. You'll be able to:

Reduce CPU consumption through efficient monitoring and intelligent tuning of DB2 applications.
Use intelligent tools to optimize capacity usage to reduce monthly software license charges, avoid over-provisioning, and delay costly processor upgrades.
Offload eligible workloads to specialty engines to reduce your general processing costs.

MIPS Reduction

We have saved lots of MIPS and CPU cycles and have reduced a job running from one hour to one minute. We can do the same as some other banks do using four times the MIPS we are using.

Paula Teotonio
Systems Engineer
Banco BPI

Increase uptime and lower costs

Your mainframe needs to be running on all cylinders to meet the daily demands of your business—and your customers. BMC’s business availability solutions for mainframe offer automated maintenance and advanced recovery, keeping your outages low and your uptime high—without demanding more from your budget and resources. See what they can do for you.

Reduce your business risk

To stay competitive, your business needs constant access to data. With customer expectations higher than ever, your systems, applications, and databases must be highly available and reliable.

BMC solutions improve business availability by reducing maintenance outages, minimizing the time it takes to perform data administration and system tasks, and speeding up the recovery process in the event of an outage. You'll be able to:

Maintain optimum performance by detecting and fixing problems before they impact service delivery.
Manage data changes to ensure that they happen automatically and with full integrity.
Perform maintenance while databases are online.
Automate complex processes for fast recovery.

Achieving 24/7 Availability

We have to be a truly 24/7 environment. That is something the BMC utilities have allowed us to do. I can tell the user community that these utilities are solid.

Robert Goodman
Senior DBA & Disaster Recovery Coordinator
Florida Hospital

Monitor and tune your applications for peak performance

Tuning your applications to achieve optimal performance pays off big when it comes to reducing mainframe costs and improving service delivery.

Modernizing and tuning your application environment leads to better operational efficiency and improved response times, and also ensures availability of key systems.

BMC solutions help you optimize application performance on your mainframe systems. Here’s how:

Proactive performance monitoring and management, including middleware on mainframe and distributed platforms, enables quick detection and remediation of application slowdowns.
Application tuning tools help you optimize SQL performance for improved response times.
Automation resolves problems before costly outages occur.

Avoiding application problems

The primary customer concerns are response time and availability of the application. We have been able to meet an SLA of 99.9% uptime and a response time of 0.35 seconds.

Jeff Fischer
IT Manager
Princess Cruises

Gain visibility across your enterprise

Today's hybrid data centers can be complex and difficult to manage. You need complete visibility across all platforms to understand the true business impact of slowdowns and outages.

It's time for an integrated monitoring solution that isn't limited by platform. BMC solutions deliver cross-enterprise managment to your hybrid data center, allowing you to monitor and manage systems, transactions, and applications across the enterprise. Here’s how:

Application infrastructure management tools provide a single view of all middleware, real-time reporting, and auditing. You can trace transactions and do self-service administration.
Workload automation lets you balance workloads and manage processing while reducing failure points and delays caused by manual error.
Event management tools enable you to automate event-driven tasks, forecast business service disruptions, and take advantage of integrated analytics data.