IBM Previews Mainframe Software to Manage and Secure Complex Transactions Driven by SOA

IBM Previews Mainframe Software to Manage and Secure Complex Transactions Driven by SOA

SHARE Conference — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today previewed new mainframe management software that will help customers handle and secure the surge of new business processes and transactions running on services oriented architectures (SOAs) that are making the IBM System z mainframe the hub of Internet-based computing.

Speaking at the SHARE conference in Baltimore today, Al Zollar, general manager of IBM Tivoli software, previewed new Tivoli software that helps customers battle the complexities of new workloads and diverse computing environments, while providing a secure management foundation to support customers moving to SOA. An SOA enables new applications and business processes to be assembled from reusable components, or “services,” giving customers the flexibility to adapt to changing business conditions and react to market opportunities.

Given the rise in SOA adoption, it is becoming more important that mainframe workloads and resources be managed to simplify integration and lower cost. IBM’s new software — based in part on technology acquired by IBM in 2004 from Candle and Cyanea — includes all the tools customers need to make System z, already the most secure platform in the world, the hub of their SOA management infrastructure.

The role of the mainframe has changed from a platform for mainstay business applications to a hub for core Internet-based business services — such as order processing and customer service — that use the hundreds of petabytes of data running on the world’s mainframe computers. New applications and services are continually boosting the number and variety of workloads and the complexity of transactions running on mainframe systems — more than 60 percent of IBM’s current mainframe revenue comes from new workloads driven by IT trends such as virtualization, Linux and SOA. By using mainframes to free up, secure and use information stored in applications, customers can ensure that they are providing as much availability, security and efficiency as possible.

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