PERFORMANCE MANAGEMEN T MANAGE MIPS TO CONTROL MAINFRAME COSTS By Marla Axelrod, Product Marketing Manager Business demand is fueling application growth and increases in computing capacity at record rates. At the same time, IT organizations are trying to manage this increased complexity while maintaining or even reducing expenditures. In many The simple view is, if the business and its related applications and transactions are growing 20 percent annually, then computing capacity must also grow by 20 percent. However, MIPS (Millions of Instructions Per Second) don’t come cheap... especially in the mainframe world! run existing applications. However, in many cases even these cheaper processors are not being utilized to their maximum potential. IT needs a way to enable business grow

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