Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 17 | Page 39

////////////////////////// “ AN OVERWHELMING CONSENSUS OF IT EXECUTIVES AND PROFESSIONALS SEE A BRIGHT FUTURE FOR THE MAINFRAME. data scientists to turn data into meaningful and actionable insights. Unfortunately, hiring additional staff is not always a possible scenario and when businesses need information in real time, an automated approach is even more necessary. The good news is that because organisations which use mainframes are working more diligently than ever to modernise and optimise their operations, they are much closer to implementing technology and capabilities that will help them get to a self-managing mainframe. A self-managing mainframe that employs intelligence and automation can heal and manage itself automatically with minimal manual intervention. For example, with predictive analytics and Machine Learning capabilities, a self-managing mainframe can learn from thousands of outage conditions and automatically apply that intelligence and learning to predict issues, recommend fixes and take action. Mainframe modernisation will also happen in the workforce – as a generation of mainframe experts retires, we will see more millennials and soon, Generation Z workers, hired to run advanced mainframe technologies. Today, the platform has a higher proportion of admins with under five years’ experience than ever before. Automation helps this new generation of IT workers to maximise mainframe performance without the years of experience it takes to fully master the platform. INTELLIGENTCIO 39