Mainframe users offered ‘no gain, no fee’ cost cutting deal
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Following research that reveals 84% of mainframe users want to reduce the rate at which their systems consume CPU capacity, mainframe management specialist Macro 4 has announced a ‘no gain, no fee’ programme.
“With budgets tightening, [freeing up processing power] can bring huge cost savings, including delaying purchases of costly CPU upgrades,” explains Chris Limberger, Macro 4marketing manager.
“It also means immediate reductions in monthly systems software license charges, which vary in line with how much CPU power was used in the previous month,” he adds.
With that in mind, and to help with the current economic climate, Limberger says Macro 4 is offering mainframe users a short term consultancy project that guarantees to achieve processing power savings worth at least twice the value of its fee – or they will not be charged at all.
“Even in the most stable IT environments’ MIPS consumption gradually increases over time, due to small changes to applications, environments and databases,” comments Limberger. “And the negative effects of these essentially minor alterations in programming code can be multiplied as database size and transaction volumes grow.
“Macro 4’s MIPS reduction programme provides a risk free way for organisations to identify and correct these changes.”
Initial consultancy uses Macro 4’s performance management software to free up CPU capacity equivalent to at least 200% of the project fees or users pay nothing, he adds.
“Each additional MIPS typically costs around £2,500 in hardware and software charges. So if a company running a 10,000 MIPS system increases capacity by just 10% per annum, the incremental cost will be in the region of £2.5 million,” comments Limberger.
