Abstract:General lockdowns around the world had a significant impact on the urge to offer new digital services to customers.
As a highly scalable platform, the mainframe played a key role in maintaining a good experience for users despite an unfortunate skill shortage.
Nonetheless, organizations:

• Were mostly not prepared for this surge and in a period of economic uncertainty, every $$$$counts.
• In this context, what actions can be taken in order to reduce the effect of the pandemic on mainframe costs?

Attend our session to get actionable insights around mainframe cost control.

Speaker bio:

Brian Hoare has seen the z platform grow from OS/390 to today’s z/OS. He may speak with a “strange accent” and has introduced new solutions into the USA and worked with several startups. He has presented at local/annual CMG’s, Share and many other conferences discussing cost reduction (IBM/MLC), performance and is now his focused on analytical data on “z”.  Mainframe analytics are his latest passion, especially as Z is the richest source of data there is. So why not use the richest source of data we have for helping to run the business?

Brian lives in Florida, is a passionate fan of Rugby and Football (Soccer) and has several refereeing and coaching badges.

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