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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.
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