Lowering start-up costs Addressing Price/Performance For New WebSphere Projects on z/OS
{"Image DocumentName": "Lowering start-up costs Addressing Price/Performance For New WebSphere Projects on z/OS", "Image ImageDescription": "Getting Started Sub-capacity Pricing for z/OS IPLA Software. Enables customers to start small projects on z/OS. Improves alignment between software use and software charges. Greater flexibility with software licensing. Add hardware capacity and without necessarily increasing software charges. Achieve better price/performance. zSW License. Old. Starting. Point. Capacity Based. Pricing. Receive Sub-LPAR pricing for new entry workload. Alternative. Starting. Point. Utilization + Capacity. Based Pricing. Getting Started Sub-capacity Pricing for z/OS IPLA Software was formally announced, worldwide on 22 April One of the key messages we as IBM have been telling our customer about successful SOA projects is to take one project at a time. Take your one or two key business processes and implement them using SOA. Now, many studies have been done that show why customers would need to take a serious look at the mainframe as the platform to deploy the SOA. We have technically superior with our hw security and availability characteristics. The flexibility and agility that SOA provides need to be deployed and monitored very intentionally. SOA gives the flexibility by loosely coupling service to form business services, but IT and operational management can\u2019t by no means be managed loosely. And that\u2019s where z/OS comes in. z/OS is the platform of choice technically and also from Total Cost of Ownership. But we still have the barrier when it comes to deployment. Total Cost of Ownership is our friend, but Total Cost of Acquisition continue to be our challenges. But as a business and company, we\u2019ve done many things to address this. We\u2019ve introduce Business Class System z\u2019s for our SMB customers. We have introduced the zNALC pricing to lower the Operating System costs when it comes to the new workload. We also introduced specialty engines likes zAAPs and zIIPs\u2026 to lower the new workload middleware license costs as well as the impact the new workload has on the existing core middleware costs like CICS, DB2. And now we have Get Started Pricing. Why is this significant? This is very significant because it addresses the issues of customers who need can\u2019t justify the start-up costs of creating a separate LPARs for the new workload. Application Workload Size.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}