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New Release Delivers Proven Mainframe Integration with the Most Options for Conserving Mainframe MIPS
ATLANTA – March 2, 2009 – GT Software (www.gtsoftware.com), a leading global provider of mainframe integration solutions, today announced Ivory Service Architect 4.1, a revolutionary new version of its market leading mainframe service oriented architecture (SOA) product.
Ivory Service Architect 4.1 delivers numerous new features designed to reduce mainframe workloads and improve SOA performance. Ivory’s innovative architecture, designed from the ground-up to deliver high-performance, secure mainframe SOA solutions, now fully exploits all three IBM System z mainframe specialty engines.
Ivory is the only mainframe integration platform offering support for the Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL), System z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP), and the System z Application Assist Processor (zAAP). Mainframe specialty engines are not governed in speed, delivering much stronger performance than workload run on the general purpose processor (GPP). Integration and SOA workload running on or exploiting one or more of these specialty engines does not incur charges against the mainframe’s processing capacity, resulting in dramatic reductions in mainframe MIPS usage.
In addition to simply supporting specialty engines, the Ivory Workload Manager provides intelligent routing to configure when and how workload is shifted to specialty engines. This feature ensures, on a service by service basis, that maximum MIPS are saved without sacrificing one bit of performance.
Additionally, the new release of Ivory delivers significant performance gains across all versions of the Ivory Server and Ivory Studio as a result of an intensive code optimization effort. Ivory Service Architect 4.1 also introduces full support for efficient binary XML, providing runtime performance gains across all versions of the Ivory Server. Additional performance improvements center on the processing of large XML schemas and orchestration of large Web service projects.
Ivory Service Architect 4.1 delivers an unprecedented array of mainframe cost-saving options that provide true application agility for mainframe SOA. Runtime flexibility engenders cost reductions and dramatically reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the mainframe. Early indications from the Ivory Service Architect customer base suggest a savings of up to 80 percent when leveraging the IBM specialty engine support over running the same workload on an enterprise’s general purpose processor (GPP).
“We have been using Ivory to extend our core applications beyond the MVS mainframe environment. It has provided a tremendous business advantage, with a return on our investment in 12 months,” said Nick Baguley, applications architect for Absa Group Limited, one of South Africa's largest financial services organizations. Absa’s environment includes some 30 channels, which comprise applications, presentation styles, and platforms. “With the addition of specialty engine support in Ivory 4.1, we anticipate an even faster return on investment.”
“The introduction and usage of IBM mainframe specialty engines is important for organizations managing MIPS growth as they continue to leverage this powerful and reliable platform” said Dale Vecchio, Gartner Research vice president. “Perhaps one of the most important drivers for adoption of these engines can be mainframe ISVs who can ensure that the workload associated with their applications and tools will not initiate a ripple effect of software cost increases. This adoption is important to the mainframe’s future viability within an organization’s IT infrastructure.”
“Ivory has long been known for unparalleled ease-of-use and unprecedented choice in terms of leveraging mainframe subsystems – CICS, IMS, CA IDEAL, CA IDMS, batch and data,” said Rob Morris, chief strategy officer for GT Software. “Using Ivory Service Architect 4.1, organizations can choose how and where to leverage specialty engines to conserve integration-related MIPS. Since most organizations are generally undecided on which engines are strategic, Ivory also allows the ability choose an option today, say zAAP, and change your mind tomorrow, say to IFL, without any redevelopment. It’s this new level of risk avoidance and flexibility that makes Ivory the perfect fit as the most cost effective mainframe integration tool on the market today.”
Ivory supports deployment of mainframe-based Web services across the widest range of platforms, giving organizations broad flexibility in where they choose to house SOA-related workload. No other solution on the market today offers such a variety of options for mainframe SOA. Without requiring any changes to the service definition, Ivory Service Architect supports the deployment of mainframe-based Web services across z/VSE, z/OS, CICS, IMS, Windows, Wintel, and Linux. Key benefits of this broader platform support include the ability to shift SOA-related workload off the mainframe, as well as the ability to leverage new mainframe MIPS-reducing hardware such as IFL processors with zLinux.
Join GT Software Chief Strategy Officer Rob Morris for a webinar to learn how you can take the "smart" approach to maximize savings and performance when it comes to leveraging your specialty engines for SOA workload.
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Eastern
