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Compuware Putting IBM enterprise servers at the heart of a DevOps culture
“z14 gives us increased efficiency in terms of energy and floorspace, significantly reducing the cost of running our facilities.”
Solution Components
IBM® CICS®
IBM Db2®
IBM z14™
IBM z/OS®
IBM z/OS Provisioning Toolkit
— Keith Sisson, Director of Technology, Compuware
Business benefits:
USD5 million
in annual cost savings by removing 19 tons of obsolete equipment
Shrinks data center footprint to enable further floorspace and energy savings
Enables DevOps culture across on-premises and cloud
Business challenge:
The drag factor of managing a sprawling distributed server landscape prevented Compuware from achieving the speed and efficiency it needed to embrace DevOps—and the company looked for a new approach.
Transformation:
Compuware created a two-platform IT strategy, keeping strategic systems running on IBM Z enterprise servers connected via RESTful APIs to public- cloud-based SaaS applications for non-strategic workloads.
Client Name
Compuware
Company Background
Compuware provides software products within a unified DevOps toolchain, helping cross-platform teams to manage mainframe applications, data and operations. The company supports a global base of clients, empowering their developers to build, analyze, test, deploy and manage COBOL applications with agility, efficiency and precision.
Business challenge
The drag factor of managing a sprawling distributed server landscape prevented Compuware from achieving the speed and efficiency it needed to embrace DevOps—and the company looked for a new approach.
The benefit
By removing 19 tons of obsolete distributed infrastructure from its data center, Compuware is saving USD5 million annually. With IBM Z at the heart of a two-platform DevOps culture, the company enjoys speed and agility.
Pull Quote
“z14 gives us increased efficiency in terms of energy and floorspace, significantly reducing the cost of running our facilities.”
— Keith Sisson, Director of Technology, Compuware
Solution components
IBM® CICS®
IBM Db2®
IBM z14™
IBM z/OS®
IBM z/OS Provisioning Toolkit
Case study Link
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Company Background
Compuware provides software products within a unified DevOps toolchain, helping cross-platform teams to manage mainframe applications, data and operations. The company supports a global base of clients, empowering their developers to build, analyze, test, deploy and manage COBOL applications with agility, efficiency and precision.
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