micro focus at #susecon 2015

Ready for the Mobile-First and Cloud-First Economy:

Micro Focus COBOL, SUSE Linux Enterprise and the IBM Mainframe

Derek BrittonStrategy Director | Micro Focus@DerekBrittonUK

Ed AireySolutions Marketing Director | Micro Focus @EdAirey

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AGENDA

• The core application development market• Business drivers for change• Tackling change: Micro Focus• COBOL in an open future

– Core workload consolidation to SUSE– Accelerating IBM z delivery

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AGENDA



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CORE APP DEVELOPMENT WITH COBOL

IBM Mainframe

Z Systems

Distributed Systems

Linux/Unix/Windows

Proprietary Systems

Unisys, DEC, Tandem, …

DISTRIBUTION [BY PLATFORM]

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IN GOOD COMPANYTHE SILENT MAJORITY

91%

Two thirds

300bn

Google?

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THE COBOL MARKET…A CHANGING LANDSCAPE

EVOLUTIONARY DevOps, agile The end user Commoditisation Cost management

REVOLUTIONARY Mobile Big Data IoT

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AGENDA



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APPLICATION CHANGE DRIVERS…A SPECTRUM OF CHALLENGES

NEW SERVICESPACE OF CHANGE

COMPETITIVE PRESSURE

COMPLEXITYREGULATIONINEFFICIENCY

COST MANAGEMENTINFRASTRUCTURE

LIMITATIONSSKILLS QUESTIONS

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SOLVING THE CHALLENGEREPLACE OR REUSE?

Business logic and data remain an organization’scompetitive advantage

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Micro Focus bridges the old and the new, enabling customers to unlock the value in their core business

applications

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AGENDA



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UNLOCKING VALUETODAY’S IT CHALLENGE

PrivateCloud

z/OSPL/I

IMS COBOL CICS

PublicCloud

C#

Web/Ajax/Flash

C++/Java

LinuxJava

40+ years of innovation has delivered incredible returns.

But at the cost of huge levels of complexity

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KEEP ITCOBOL – WHEN CORE APPLICATIONS MEAN BUSINESS

Mainframe Distributed Virtualized Cloud

COBOL applications written yesterday run on today’s modern platforms

COBOL applications written today will run on tomorrow’s leading platforms

COBOL is already part of the next generation of platforms

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BUILD IT: DEVELOPING FOR THE FUTURECLASS-LEADING #APPDEV TECHNOLOGY

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RUN IT: DEPLOYMENT FLEXIBILITYUNRIVALLED PLATFORM PORTABILITY

UBIQUITOUS APPLICATION AVAILABILITY

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AN OPEN FUTURE

Maximizing efficiency and valueMinimizing unnecessary change

Building in future flexibility

SUSE AND MICRO FOCUS COBOL

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WORKLOAD CONSOLIDATION…THROUGH CORE APPLICATION REHOSTING

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Why rehost core applications? Customer success

WORKLOAD CONSOLIDATIONREHOSTING BENEFITS

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CORE APPLICATION REHOSTING

COBOLCOBOL

KEY DELIVERY COMPONENTS

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Optimize how business applications are built, tested and deployed

Execute with the right balance of cost, flexibility and risk

Access your applications on any device

Cloud

Distributed

Virtualized

Mainframe

Core COBOL application

PLATFORM CHANGE

Take core COBOL applications to any platform

MOVING FROM PROPRIETARY UNIX TO OPEN LINUX

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Why Change? A Platform for Business Success

PLATFORM CHANGEMOVING FROM PROPRIETARY UNIX TO OPEN LINUX

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IBM Z WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT

Fast – overcoming agile and DevOps challenges with highly collaborative, productive, available mainframe dev / test technology

Future-proofed – today’s core applications have a robust and flexible future path, and the staff to support them

Flexible – Standardized IDE enables instant mainframe connection or fully detached, distributed set up

Distributed

Virtualized

Mainframe

A unified, fully integrated toolset

ACCELERATING Z SYSTEMS APP DEVELOPMENT

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User Acceptance

Testing

System Testing

Functional Testing

Integration Testing

Unit Testing

Development

EfficientServiceDelivery

Low cost, scalable resources for continuous application testing

Remove test capacity constraints with a scalable test execution environment

Scale-up test capacity on demand

Flexible access to mainframe applications, job steps and data where needed

Faster time to delivery with less risk of production failure

OPTIMIZING MAINFRAME TESTINGIBM Z WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT

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Leverage Z System flexibility by managing workload across z/OS and SUSE Linux environments

Consolidate disparate core systems into a single infrastructure

Leverage performance gains on z13 or Linux One

Distribute workload as needed to contain/reduce MIPS, replicate or offer new services, or support a “fit-for-purpose” strategy

FLEXIBLE MAINFRAME APPLICATION DELIVERYIBM Z WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT

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Micro Focus bridges the old and the new, enabling

customers to unlock the value in their core business

applications

SUMMARYFUTURE-PROOFED CORE SYSTEM DELIVERY

Accelerate time to market

Reduce IT costs

Improve business agility

Taking core business applications into the future

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Thank you.

Learn more at microfocus.com/SUSEcon

Derek BrittonStrategy Director | Micro Focus

@DerekBrittonUK

Ed AireySolutions Marketing Director | Micro Focus

@EdAirey

http://www.microfocus.com/SUSEcon

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