IBM-2007-04569-E-01
©2007 Sine Nomine Associates
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5 Summary and Recommendations
While many pundits continue to indicate that VSE is non-viable, the influx of investment
and new function provides both a strong foundation and a base for continued expansion
by assimilating new workloads and optimizing existing workloads as consolidation
occurs. This combination of “something old, something new, something borrowed,
something blue” returns the best of both worlds: a bridge between the status quo and the
status futura.
The opportunity being presented to z/VSE customers today is one that should be closely
examined. It is based on addressing the top concerns of the z/VSE community: cost and
applications.
The attack on cost is based on:
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z/VSE MWLC pricing
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Potential savings from reduction in environmental requirements
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Lower hardware maintenance
z/VSE facilitates the protection, integration and extension of applications via:
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z/VSE connectors
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Exploitation of new hardware such as the new processors, cryptographic
equipment, network hardware, and
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Introduction of Linux to extend the range of applications that can access and
manipulate data under the control of the z/VSE system.
Those running z/VSE prior to 4.1 or running older hardware should seize upon this
opportunity to investigate the potential savings in TCO and the enhanced functionality
that would be realized by a migration to z/VSE 4.1 running on z9 hardware.
There are several categories of customer where savings are a function of one or more of
the financial or technological factors described in this paper:
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Those where savings achieved by moving to MWLC pricing will be sufficient to
justify a migration to z/VSE 4.1 and the z9.
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Those where the reduction in maintenance and environmentals by migrating to the
z9 in conjunction with the new software pricing model will be the tipping point.
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Those, for example running MP3000 equipment, where a migration to z9 and to
modern, efficient, and higher-capacity disks such as the DS6000, will be the
driver.
