Mainframe cost management
Reduce Peaks and Costs
The fluctuating workload within organisations can lead to unexpected spikes in costs, posing challenges for both CIOs and CFOs. Triton’s Mainframe Cost Management service provides controls to mitigate these cost surprises, offering stability to capacity and financial planning.
By focusing on reducing MSU and understanding workload patterns, organisations can achieve real cost savings. Managing workload peaks not only supports good capacity management but also generates opportunities for cost reduction.
control your mainframe workloads
You could be paying too much for your software licences. Mainframe software charges are usually based on peak CPU usage: your peak workload in a given month determines what you pay for. This means that just one workload spike could push your costs up significantly.
Regain control of your software charges:
Triton Consulting can help you to regain control of your software charges by running an audit of your current environment and identifying practical opportunities for ongoing cost reduction.
Initial Analysis:
Typically customers can reduce their peak CPU charges by a minimum of 3% with no performance impacts whatsoever and many customers can reduce their peak by 5% from this initial analysis.
Further Cost Optimisation:
The majority of mainframe users have significant potential for further reducing resource consumption (and therefore costs) through management and performance tuning of key workloads.
KEY PHASES
The Mainframe Cost Management service covers three key phases:
Phase 01
The first step is for Triton to gather initial environment data and analyse overall workloads to identify the major resource users within your system. From this we can provide a report which shows what drives your monthly licence charges, together with specific short-term cost reduction recommendations for reducing MSU charges based on LPAR management and defined capacity.
The report will also form the baseline for any subsequent reductions achieved in later phases. Customers will typically benefit from 3-5% savings from phase 1.
Phase 02
Based on the outputs of the report above, more detailed analysis will be conducted on the workload running during the specific 4-hour rolling peak periods responsible for setting MLC costs.
The analysis will break down and identify the specific workloads (CICS, Db2, IMS etc) active during the peak periods and provide an indication of the potential scope for further MSU reduction through additional tuning activities.
Recommendations will be provided to further drive down MLC costs though targeted workload placement, typically yielding further MLC cost savings of 5-10%.
Phase 03
If the Peak Workload Analysis Report identifies significant potential for tuning one or more specific workloads during the identified peak periods, this phase will undertake the tuning and optimisation activities necessary to further reduce MSU usage/cost relative to the original baseline.
MSU savings
Discover immediate IT cost reductions with our Mainframe Cost Management service.
By pinpointing potential optimisations in your mainframe workload management, we can help you make significant savings, as demonstrated in the accompanying graph.
Start cutting your costs and maximise your organisation’s efficiency.
"I believe that the Mainframe Cost Management service from Triton Consulting offers customers a unique opportunity to reduce spiralling mainframe costs, providing an end-to-end approach to mainframe cost management, from initial auditing and LPAR optimisation through to specific workload tuning. Having worked alongside Triton for many years, I highly rate their in-depth mainframe knowledge and professionalism, and I'm confident that many mainframe sites will benefit from this service."
Paul Arnerich
Independent Consultant
Resources
Managing Mainframe Costs in the Financial Services Sector
Demystifying Mainframe Pricing in the Financial Services Sector