Many mainframes need to be modernized to integrate with today’s distributed computing platforms. As a result, mainframe management often needs to be optimized to overcome significant challenges:

• Increasing TCO due to ongoing investment in software
• Competition for talent required to maintain management skills
• Flexibility to adapt to new emerging business needs
• Complex monolithic applications
• Freeing data that could be valuable to the business
• Sequential application releases required every year to deliver new functionality