Enable Workforce Resiliency with Mainframe Education for All Skill Levels
Explore diverse mainframe educational programs catered to individuals of all skill levels, offered in flexible formats to suit your personal learning needs.
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Mainframes Power the Global Economy
Scale and Volume
- Instagram: 95 million photos daily
Source: Hootsuite, "35 Instagram Statistics That Matter to Marketers in 2024," Stacey McLachlan, November 21, 2023 - YouTube: 5 billion videos watched daily
Source: Global Media Insight, “YouTube User Statistics 2023” - Google: 8.5 billion searches daily
Source: Dave Chaffey, “Search Engine Marketing Statistics 2023,” Smart Insights, February 16, 2023 - 1 trillion secure web transactions daily
Source: IBM, “What is a mainframe" - Mainframes process 74% of the world’s production IT workloads
Source: Peter Rutten, IDC, “Mainframe 2020: A Catalyst for Transformation”
Who uses mainframe?
- Banking: 45 of the 50 top banks
- Government: 4 out of 5 of the largest government executive departments
- Airlines: 4 of the top 5 airlines
- Health Insurance: All Top-10 insurers worldwide
- Retail: 7 of the top 10 global retailers
- Automotive: 100% of the Top 5 global auto companies
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- Instagram: 95 million photos daily
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Mainframe Enables a Resilient IT Infrastructure
The mainframe platform will remain relevant for years to come:
- 94% see the mainframe as a long term platform, or a platform for new workloads
Source: 2024 State of the Mainframe Report - 74% see the mainframe as a long-term strategic platform
Source: Deloitte Hybrid Cloud Futures Kit, 2020 - 2x expected increase in number of organizations leveraging mainframe in a hybrid cloud environment in 3-years
Source: IBM Institute for Business Value Application Modernization on the Mainframe, July 2021
The mainframe platform is expanding:
- *3.5x growth in MIPS installed capacity in the last decade
Source: IBM Z Day keynote presentation, 15 September 2021 - 91% of business and IT decision-makers say expanding mainframe footprint is a priority
Source: IBM Z Day keynote presentation, 15 September 2021
- 94% see the mainframe as a long term platform, or a platform for new workloads
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Mainframe offers Unparalleled Cybersecurity
Recent studies cite security and data breaches as the greatest threat to server, application, data center, and cloud ecosystem stability and reliability. However, mainframe security helps deliver 99.9999999% of uptime and reliability.
Join Mary Ann Furno, Director of Engineering, and Ravi Patil, Director of Product Management and Strategy as they journey through an insightful discussion that highlights the importance of a mainframe cyber resilience strategy, along with practical approaches organizations can take for future success. -
Build and Nurture Mainframe Talent for Workforce Resiliency
Join Sephora Thurel, a Broadcom Vitality Program graduate, and David Bond, Principal Client Services Management, for an inside scoop of the Vitality Program and a discussion on actionable steps to create a resilient mainframe workforce for your organization.Resources
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Modernize Mainframe within your Hybrid Data Center
Investing in mainframe as part of modernizing in place is much more cost effective than complete modernization outside the mainframe. For top-performing organizations, there is a direct and positive correlation between their mainframe investment and their overall performance relative to others.Key Points
- 87% view the mainframe as competitive advantage
- 87% consider the mainframe as integral to their cloud strategy
- 86% indicate the mainframe is critical to the operation of their organization
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Unlock Mainframe Efficiency and Cost Effectiveness
Organizations that invest in a transformative mainframe strategy gain 6x ROI from their efforts. Mainframe drives almost 20% lower cost of operations. Mainframe enables 52% faster development lifecycle, and 96% faster detection of potential security breaches. Every $1 invested in digital business innovation will require enterprises to spend at least three times that to continuously modernize the legacy application portfolio.Sources
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Open Mainframe Project: Mainframe Open Education
Mainframe Open Education, brought to you by the Open Mainframe Project, brings an open-sourced, convenient platform to create or donate learning tools to facilitate skills advancement and knowledge transfer.
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Tackling the Tech Talent Challenge
Join Greg Lotko, SVP and GM, Broadcom Mainframe Software, and Daniel Newman, CEO and Founder, Futurum Research as they welcome Rick Pittman, Vice President CIO Research at Info-Tech, to uncover people-centric strategies for building the talent pool of tomorrow.
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InfrastructureEmbrace Your Hybrid Cloud with Your Mainframe
Integrating your mainframe with your hybrid cloud makes it easier to bring data, services, and mission-critical scalability and reliability to your hybrid environment.See how opening up your mainframe brings mainframe capabilities to your hybrid environment and cloudlike attributes to your mainframe. -
InfrastructureDemystifying the Cost and Benefits of Infrastructure for Business Modernization
A Fireside Chat with best-selling author Kaihan Krippendorffand a panel of experts discussing innovation trade-offs made within their organization to ensure an improved and secured business infrastructure. -
Digital TransformationReimagining Financial Systems by Futurum
This compelling research report —created by Futurumin collaboration with Broadcom —explores the shifting landscape for financial institutions and the benefits of modernizing applications and customer experience on the mainframe. -
Digital TransformationThe Role of the Mainframe in a Hybrid-Cloud World
A 2021 survey conducted by Enterprise Management Associates demonstrates the resurgence of the mainframe as a core part of today’s hybrid IT strategy and why 87% of execs view the platform as a competitive advantage. Download the report to see how others are getting the most out of their mainframe across several key areas.
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6 Eye-Openers Every Tech Exec Should Know About the Mainframe
Whether your customers or stakeholders realize it or not, the mainframe dominates high-volume transactions. With this in mind, here are six eye-openers about the mainframe that may be surprising. -
9 Incredible Perks From Broadcom Every Mainframe Shop Should Take Advantage of
Here’s a count down of nine incredible perks from Broadcom that every mainframe shop should be taking advantage of. -
A Mainframe Milestone: Unparalleled Business Value, and Cutting-Edge Advancement
Now heading into its 7th decade, the mainframe continues to keep the world’s economy seamlessly humming while supporting the majority of today’s business transactions.