CA Study Reveals Mainframe Staff Losses Looming as Mainframe Use is
Projected to Grow Significantly
Enterprise IT Organizations Planning Multiple Measures to Cope with
Disparity Between Requirements and Resources
LAS VEGAS (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) November 18, 2008 --
CA (NASDAQ: CA) today announced the results
of a global study indicating that enterprise IT organizations are
losing their experienced mainframe personnel to retirement just as their
use of the mainframe is projected to grow significantly. As a result,
these organizations must adopt a variety of strategies to address a
critical impending disparity between their computing requirements and
their human resources.
The study, conducted by TheInfoPro in September and early October,
surveyed 270 senior IT executives from Fortune 2000 companies around the
world. All respondents had applications running on the mainframe
platform. The study revealed that 80% of respondents have mainframe
staff eligible for retirement either now or within two years. It also
revealed that mainframe spending—which had been in decline over the past
two years—is now projected to rise. This is occurring as, to varying
degrees, utilization of applications currently running on the mainframe
increases, new applications are developed for the mainframe, and
application workloads are shifted to the mainframe from distributed
systems.
Dramatic Increase in Mainframe Spending
This dramatic shift from decreasing to increasing spending was
highlighted by the fact that 50% of respondents said that their
mainframe spending was higher two years ago than it is today, while 63%
said it would be higher two years from now. Only 12% predicted that
their mainframe spending would decrease over the next two years.
Respondents shared a variety of planned approaches to coping with the
“graying” of their mainframe workforces at the same time as they project
growth in the use of the mainframe. Top responses included the hiring
and training of new talent, consolidation of mainframe vendors, and
deploying solutions that make the mainframe easier to use.
Respondents were asked to rate these various approaches in terms of both
how “practical” and how “helpful” they considered them to be. New hiring
ranked the highest as the most potentially helpful (83%), but was not
considered to be quite as practical (78%). Vendor consolidation and the
deployment of more intuitive mainframe management solutions, on the
other hand, received slightly higher rankings for their practicality
than for their potential helpfulness.
Asked to name the management tasks they believed would suffer most from
shortfalls in mainframe staffing, respondents cited security (55%),
storage (47%), workload management (46%), and database management (26%).
CA commissioned the study in conjunction with its Mainframe
2.0 initiative, which it has launched to help customers successfully
leverage the unique advantages of the mainframe even as they experience
staffing shortfalls in the coming years.
“It is clear that enterprise IT organizations need to start taking steps
now to ensure their ability to continue leveraging mainframe
technology—which delivers the scalability, reliability, security,
cost-efficiency, and energy-efficiency so essential to the fulfillment
of the IT mission—despite the loss of their most experienced mainframe
professionals,” said Chris O’Malley, executive vice president and
general manager of CA’s Mainframe Business Unit. “With our Mainframe 2.0
initiative, CA is uniquely helping customers address this challenge by
both streamlining mainframe ownership and maximizing the total business
value that the mainframe delivers.”
Complete survey results are available online at http://ca.com/mainframe/infoprostudy.
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software company. With CA's Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision and
expertise, organizations can more effectively govern, manage and secure
IT to optimize business performance and sustain competitive advantage.
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