System z: Building the Business Case for System z

This session focuses on the multiple complexities in building a valid business case to compare mainframe workloads to distributed workloads. We will focus on workload selection and how to be sure you are using all the appropriate components to build a valid 'apples to apples' comparison. Components to be discussed are hardware, software licenses and maintenance, people, energy and datacenter efficiency, virtualization, networking and disaster recovery.

Tracks: Architecture, Enterprise Data Center Management, IT & the Bottom Line, IT Management, Operations Support, Storage Administration and z/OS Systems Programming