Cloud Computing: Forgotten but not gone – why mainframes remain the power behind tech’s throne

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Steve Ranger.

These behemoths of computing might not be as exciting to young developers as cloud and mobile projects, but mainframes are still the power behind many business applications. According to a survey of CIOs more than half (55 percent) of enterprise applications call upon the mainframe to complete transactions. And that shows little sign of decline – nine out of ten of the CIOs surveyed said their mainframe workloads are increasing, and distributed applications have caused a 44 percent increase in workload over the past five years.

Nine out of ten said new customer-facing applications are accessing the mainframe; however this combination of old and new technologies is adding to the CIOs’ headaches – three quarters of CIOs said the complexity of applications working across distributed and mainframe environments is making problem resolution take longer…

Four out of five said they had no visibility of the actual end-user experience and 63 percent of companies admitted they were often unaware of performance problems until calls start coming into the help desk…

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