Rationalize legacy and new mainframes with flexible storage, security, continuity and network options — without capital investment.
Key benefits
- Reduce OPEX and CAPEX costs through a cost-effective, predictable and scalable service model.
- Accelerate your move to consumption-based managed services.
- Modernize and transform through our advi-sory services and roadmaps.
- Address aging workforces by engaging DXC’s highly experienced mainframe talent.
Our proven services manage operation and support for the IBM z/Series mainframe platform, including hosting, storage and disaster recovery. DXC Technology helps customers lower total costs and improve mainframe operations, security, performance, capacity and processing efficiency.
Business Case
Many enterprises depend on mainframes for secure, reliable and heavy volume data processing but are facing growing challenges of managing costs and providing skilled mainframe resources. Managing mainframes takes ongoing investment in software, hardware, facilities and support. In addition, capacity must be readily available to handle peak periods and unexpected growth.
As the volume of transactions increases with more consumer-driven demands for information, IT organizations are looking for help in navigating these infrastructure challenges.
Access new technologies through secure and flexible infrastructure
DXC can help ensure the availability, stability and capacity you need from your mainframe platform. We manage mainframe operation and support, including hosting, storage and disaster recovery.
We help you lower capital investments and improve mainframe operations, security, performance, capacity and processing efficiency, enabling you to focus on your core business.
We deliver global services remotely to your data centers or DXC-leveraged data centers. Our flexible 24x7 management services support mainframe and storage platforms, operating systems and operational tools. ITIL-based service management enables you to meet operational industry standards and stringent security policies.
DXC Managed Mainframe Services help you migrate and transition business-critical applications to DXC facilities and management services where you can access optional services including new technologies, flexible storage, security, plus continuity and network services.
DXC provides a path for you to rapidly move forward with your digital application transformation journey while keeping core applications on the mainframe.
DXC draws upon a global pool of talent consisting of on-shore, near-shore and off-shore resources including companies that have previously outsourced operations to DXC. In addition to our managed services, DXC provides a full range of consulting services for application modernization and digital transformation, performance engineering, systems management, analytics, security and compliance, multicloud management and containerization.
DXC Managed Mainframe Services in action
Why DXC?
- Expertise. We have in-depth experience in z/OS, z/TPF, Linux for System Z, IBM IMS, DB2, IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS) and IBM MQ Series — delivered by experienced mainframe professionals.
- Success. We manage 720,000+ mainframe MIPS for 160+ customers worldwide. We also have 150+ mainframe application management customers and have managed hundreds of successful mainframe migrations.
- Innovation. We can help drive innovation and cost savings with newer technologies such as Linux; keyboard, video and mouse (KVM); Kubernetes; OpenShift; containers and other open source software that can coexist with traditional mainframe workloads on the same CPU or on a standalone CPU.
We optimize mainframe service costs and enhance productivity by delivering management expertise, processes and tools to scale mainframe infrastructure. This allows you to meet organizational and market changes without incurring capital investment. We are vendor-independent and offer a flexible working relationship with customers.
- Service and performance improvement: A public sector agency gained operational and performance benefits from a platform-as-a-service approach that improved transaction volumes tenfold and response times by 97 percent. The platform also reduced the risk of outages and service disruptions related to additional demand.
- Savings: A large multinational automotive manufacturer selected DXC for a multiyear infrastructure managed services contract to lower its total cost of ownership by up to 30 percent with less risk. Fast provisioning resulted in a savings of $1.3 million annually.
- Growth and scalability: A major insurance company grew from a regional to a national carrier by enabling stable applications and mainframe operations, as well as resource flexibility. The result was a robust, flexible technology environment that supports the company’s growth goals and reduced IT costs by 50 percent in 5 years.
DXC Managed Mainframe Services business value
- Improve return on investment (ROI) and reduce mainframe TCO by maximizing and leveraging operations. Our predictable, volume-based pricing helps you move from a CAPEX to an OPEX cost structure.
- Optimize environments and workloads with access to new technologies and standard processes.
- Mitigate risk with standardization, automation and operational tools and processes. Meet government and industry regulations.
- Access highly experienced mainframe talent with industry knowledge.
- Modernize and transform through our advisory services and roadmaps.
We can help you reach a future mode of operations that supports business transformation.
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