micro focus at #susecon 2015
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Ready for the Mobile-First and Cloud-First Economy:
Micro Focus COBOL, SUSE Linux Enterprise and the IBM Mainframe
Derek BrittonStrategy Director | Micro Focus@DerekBrittonUK
Ed AireySolutions Marketing Director | Micro Focus @EdAirey
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AGENDA
• The core application development market• Business drivers for change• Tackling change: Micro Focus• COBOL in an open future
– Core workload consolidation to SUSE– Accelerating IBM z delivery
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AGENDA
• The core application development market• Business drivers for change• Tackling change: Micro Focus• COBOL in an open future
– Core workload consolidation to SUSE– Accelerating IBM z delivery
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CORE APP DEVELOPMENT WITH COBOL
IBM Mainframe
Z Systems
Distributed Systems
Linux/Unix/Windows
Proprietary Systems
Unisys, DEC, Tandem, …
DISTRIBUTION [BY PLATFORM]
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IN GOOD COMPANYTHE SILENT MAJORITY
91%
Two thirds
300bn
Google?
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THE COBOL MARKET…A CHANGING LANDSCAPE
EVOLUTIONARY DevOps, agile The end user Commoditisation Cost management
REVOLUTIONARY Mobile Big Data IoT
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AGENDA
• The core application development market• Business drivers for change• Tackling change: Micro Focus• COBOL in an open future
– Core workload consolidation to SUSE– Accelerating IBM z delivery
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APPLICATION CHANGE DRIVERS…A SPECTRUM OF CHALLENGES
NEW SERVICESPACE OF CHANGE
COMPETITIVE PRESSURE
COMPLEXITYREGULATIONINEFFICIENCY
COST MANAGEMENTINFRASTRUCTURE
LIMITATIONSSKILLS QUESTIONS
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SOLVING THE CHALLENGEREPLACE OR REUSE?
Business logic and data remain an organization’scompetitive advantage
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Micro Focus bridges the old and the new, enabling customers to unlock the value in their core business
applications
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AGENDA
• The core application development market• Business drivers for change• Tackling change: Micro Focus• COBOL in an open future
– Core workload consolidation to SUSE– Accelerating IBM z delivery
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UNLOCKING VALUETODAY’S IT CHALLENGE
PrivateCloud
z/OSPL/I
IMS COBOL CICS
PublicCloud
C#
Web/Ajax/Flash
C++/Java
LinuxJava
40+ years of innovation has delivered incredible returns.
But at the cost of huge levels of complexity
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KEEP ITCOBOL – WHEN CORE APPLICATIONS MEAN BUSINESS
Mainframe Distributed Virtualized Cloud
COBOL applications written yesterday run on today’s modern platforms
COBOL applications written today will run on tomorrow’s leading platforms
COBOL is already part of the next generation of platforms
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BUILD IT: DEVELOPING FOR THE FUTURECLASS-LEADING #APPDEV TECHNOLOGY
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RUN IT: DEPLOYMENT FLEXIBILITYUNRIVALLED PLATFORM PORTABILITY
UBIQUITOUS APPLICATION AVAILABILITY
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AN OPEN FUTURE
Maximizing efficiency and valueMinimizing unnecessary change
Building in future flexibility
SUSE AND MICRO FOCUS COBOL
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AGENDA
• The core application development market• Business drivers for change• Tackling change: Micro Focus• COBOL in an open future
– Core workload consolidation to SUSE– Accelerating IBM z delivery
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WORKLOAD CONSOLIDATION…THROUGH CORE APPLICATION REHOSTING
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Why rehost core applications? Customer success
WORKLOAD CONSOLIDATIONREHOSTING BENEFITS
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CORE APPLICATION REHOSTING
COBOLCOBOL
KEY DELIVERY COMPONENTS
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Optimize how business applications are built, tested and deployed
Execute with the right balance of cost, flexibility and risk
Access your applications on any device
Cloud
Distributed
Virtualized
Mainframe
Core COBOL application
PLATFORM CHANGE
Take core COBOL applications to any platform
MOVING FROM PROPRIETARY UNIX TO OPEN LINUX
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Why Change? A Platform for Business Success
PLATFORM CHANGEMOVING FROM PROPRIETARY UNIX TO OPEN LINUX
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AGENDA
• The core application development market• Business drivers for change• Tackling change: Micro Focus• COBOL in an open future
– Core workload consolidation to SUSE– Accelerating IBM z delivery
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IBM Z WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT
Fast – overcoming agile and DevOps challenges with highly collaborative, productive, available mainframe dev / test technology
Future-proofed – today’s core applications have a robust and flexible future path, and the staff to support them
Flexible – Standardized IDE enables instant mainframe connection or fully detached, distributed set up
Distributed
Virtualized
Mainframe
A unified, fully integrated toolset
ACCELERATING Z SYSTEMS APP DEVELOPMENT
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User Acceptance
Testing
System Testing
Functional Testing
Integration Testing
Unit Testing
Development
EfficientServiceDelivery
Low cost, scalable resources for continuous application testing
Remove test capacity constraints with a scalable test execution environment
Scale-up test capacity on demand
Flexible access to mainframe applications, job steps and data where needed
Faster time to delivery with less risk of production failure
OPTIMIZING MAINFRAME TESTINGIBM Z WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT
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Leverage Z System flexibility by managing workload across z/OS and SUSE Linux environments
Consolidate disparate core systems into a single infrastructure
Leverage performance gains on z13 or Linux One
Distribute workload as needed to contain/reduce MIPS, replicate or offer new services, or support a “fit-for-purpose” strategy
FLEXIBLE MAINFRAME APPLICATION DELIVERYIBM Z WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT
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Micro Focus bridges the old and the new, enabling
customers to unlock the value in their core business
applications
SUMMARYFUTURE-PROOFED CORE SYSTEM DELIVERY
Accelerate time to market
Reduce IT costs
Improve business agility
Taking core business applications into the future
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Thank you.
Learn more at microfocus.com/SUSEcon
Derek BrittonStrategy Director | Micro Focus
@DerekBrittonUK
Ed AireySolutions Marketing Director | Micro Focus
@EdAirey
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