Oracle Press Release

Oracle Enhances Mainframe Rehosting Products for Oracle Tuxedo 12c

New Product Features Further Reduce the Cost, Complexity and Risk of Mainframe Migrations

Redwood Shores, CA – July 31, 2012

News Facts

Oracle today announced the release of Oracle Tuxedo ART 12c, which includes Oracle Tuxedo Application Runtime for IBM CICS, IMS and Batch; and Oracle Tuxedo Application Rehosting Workbench.

Oracle Tuxedo ART 12c helps customers reduce IT costs significantly, compared to their current mainframes, by rehosting larger-scale mainframe applications more rapidly and running them more efficiently on traditional Linux/UNIX servers, engineered systems and in enterprise clouds.

Powered by Oracle Tuxedo 12c and optimized for Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle Tuxedo ART 12c delivers up to 8x performance gains for rehosted IBM CICS and IMS applications

Oracle Tuxedo ART 12c provides numerous new features to help migrate IBM CICS, IMS, and batch applications faster, by automating configuration and deployment with new Oracle Tuxedo Application Rehosting Workbench tools and supporting new client UI options.

The latest release also makes the post-migration evolution of these applications easier with new Java services extensibility and enhanced standards-based integration options.

Delivering the most scalable, ultra reliable and high-performance mainframe rehosting platform, Oracle Tuxedo Application Runtimes 12c can be used to run large scale mainframe applications more efficiently on horizontally scalable open systems and enterprise clouds with simplified provisioning, virtualization, dynamic scale-out, accounting/chargeback and integrated monitoring and management – at a fraction of mainframe cost.

By rehosting on Oracle Tuxedo 12c, organizations can take advantage of industry-leading performance and flexibility to accelerate and simplify the migration and evolution of enterprise-class, mission-critical applications. (See related news release on Oracle Tuxedo 12c)

Enterprise Application Rehosting Without Changing Business Logic

Oracle Tuxedo Application Runtimes 12c provide mainframe programming models, while leveraging the distributed infrastructure and the high performance of Oracle Tuxedo 12c. Combined with the automated code and data migration tools in Oracle Tuxedo Application Rehosting Workbench 12c, this solution can simplify and accelerate mainframe rehosting projects while reducing overall cost and risk. With the new products customers can:

Dramatically reduce IT costs:

Reduces infrastructure and operations costs by more than 50 percent by rehosting IBM mainframe applications on an open, dynamically scalable enterprise cloud environment.

Improves batch operations and reduces support costs with Oracle Tuxedo System and Application Monitor (TSAM) 12c’s best-in-class monitoring, with enhanced tracing capabilities, and file catalog.

Eliminates third-party licensing costs across large numbers of desktops via new support for Web UI integration with rehosted CICS applications to replace tn3270 emulators or screen scrapers.

Simplify and accelerate mainframe application rehosting:

Further automates the migration and deployment lifecycle, including automated generation of application and system configuration files, to reduce the cost and risk of migration, improve ease-of-use and enable customers to achieve a faster return on investment.

Integrates existing Windows clients, using CICS Universal Client with Oracle Tuxedo Application Runtime for CICS, to help avoid any impact on clients and front-end applications, while rehosting the back-end CICS services to Oracle Tuxedo.

Improve performance, availability, scalability and manageability of larger-scale CICS, IMS, and batch applications:

Oracle Tuxedo optimizes inter-process communications on Oracle Exalogic through an innovative in-memory model, which doubles the throughput and lowers response time by a third, irrespective of deployment topology. Oracle Exalogic and Oracle Tuxedo are engineered to work together and offer a powerful platform to run applications rehosted from mainframes, with high performance, availability and scalability at lower costs.

Offers enhanced CICS queuing via Oracle Tuxedo Message Queue 12c, providing highly scalable and available temporary storage and transient data queues across multiple cluster nodes.

Automatically recovers IBM MQ, Oracle Database and Oracle Tuxedo mainframe connections, which further improves autonomous self-recovery and application availability.

Delivers enhanced features for multi-node batch deployments in Oracle Tuxedo Application Runtime for Batch 12c, which also provide improved integration between CICS and batch, and enhanced batch file management through a file catalog with Web UI.

Monitors and manages the full application stack with Oracle TSAM 12c, which is now integrated with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, helping customers easily deploy, monitor and manage rehosted CICS, IMS and batch applications in traditional deployments and enterprise clouds.

Run IBM CICS, IMS and batch applications in a cloud:

Provides a solid foundation for enterprise cloud deployments of rehosted mainframe applications using application runtimes for CICS, IMS and batch.

Simplifies application provisioning and virtualization using Oracle Exalogic and Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder to package rehosted applications into software appliances and automate deployment through Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c.

Scales-out CICS and IMS regions and batch environments dynamically, using the distributed resource broker in Oracle TSAM 12c, based on load and utilization metrics for online transactions and batch jobs.

Generates detailed accounting data and summary reports for internal chargeback or to support multi-tenant environments.

Easily extend and modernize rehosted applications:

Extends rehosted applications with integrated Java services directly on Oracle Tuxedo 12c to leverage a single environment and gain performance benefits.

Integrates with Java EE application servers through enhanced Oracle Tuxedo JCA Adapter 12c and simplifies integration with web services and SOA, using enhanced tools in Oracle Services Architecture Leveraging Tuxedo (SALT) 12c.

Supporting Quote

“The perceived costs, complexities and risks tied to large-scale mainframe migration projects can deter some organizations from reaping the benefits of moving to open, flexible and scalable cloud environments,” said Frank Xiong, vice president, Software Development, Oracle. “Oracle ART 12c greatly simplifies application rehosting for larger-scale applications by reducing the cost and time associated with mainframe migration projects. This gives customers the flexibility they need to transition to high performance cloud environments and reduce IT costs.”

Supporting Resources

Oracle Tuxedo 12c

Oracle Tuxedo Application Runtime 12c for CICS and Batch

Oracle Tuxedo Application Runtime 12c for IMS

Oracle Tuxedo Application Runtime 12c for Batch

Oracle Tuxedo Application Rehosting Workbench 12c

Oracle Tuxedo Message Queue 12c

Oracle Tuxedo System and Application Monitor 12c

Oracle Services Architecture Leveraging Tuxedo 12c

Oracle Tuxedo JCA Adapter 12c

Oracle Tuxedo Mainframe Adapters 12c

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud

Oracle Cloud Application Foundation

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c

Oracle Database 11g

Oracle SOA Suite 11g

Oracle Solaris Studio

About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.

CA Mainframe Chorus Wins Long Island Software Award

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CA Mainframe Chorus Wins Long Island Software Award

ISLANDIA, N.Y., May 9, 2012 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that its ground-breaking, next-generation mainframe management solution, CA Mainframe Chorus, was selected as one of the “best of the best” of Long Island’s software products for 2012.

The award, which recognizes innovative IT solutions developed by Long Island companies, was presented at a ceremony hosted by the Long Island Software and Technology Network (LISTnet).

LISTnet is dedicated to facilitating collaboration among companies to help establish Long Island as a national center of excellence for software and technology solutions.

“Our customers depend on us to continually innovate and deliver better ways for IT to meet business challenges,” said David Luft, senior vice president, engineering, CA Technologies. “CA Mainframe Chorus is the crown jewel in our recent innovations that helps meet these needs by modernizing the mainframe environment and we are pleased that LISTnet has recognized our efforts.”
 
CA Mainframe Chorus is a revolutionary, next-generation mainframe management innovation that provides a richly graphical, intuitive interface, and integrates management features across multiple products and disciplines, facilitating collaboration and knowledge sharing among expert and novice mainframe staff, to help customers reduce costs, simplify management and improve operational efficiency.

About CA Technologies

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) is an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments – from mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to deliver more flexible IT services. CA Technologies innovative products and services provide the insight and control essential for IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies to manage evolving IT ecosystems. For additional information, visit CA Technologies at www.ca.com.

Global Research Reveals "Must Know" Details That Optimize the Mainframe Environment and Save Enterprises Millions

Global Research Reveals "Must Know" Details That Optimize the Mainframe Environment and Save Enterprises Millions

DETROIT, April 23, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq:CPWR), the technology performance company, today released a research paper titled "Mainframe Efficiency in the Real World" detailing how 60 global market leaders collectively saved $105 million by optimizing their mainframe environments.

The surge in mobile banking and other types of e-commerce has made mainframe applications key to connecting businesses with customers. This means IT organizations must integrate new cloud and mobile applications with business critical mainframe applications at a record pace. At the same time, the IT industry faces a critical skills shortage: the developers best suited to integrate and maintain these highly critical, customer-facing applications are reaching retirement age, exposing enterprises to rising costs and increased business risks.

"The combination of a transitioning mainframe workforce and an increase in mainframe transactions — a conflux of trends Compuware calls the 'New Normal of Mainframe' — could prove extremely challenging for IT organizations. However, Compuware found its customers are ahead of the curve when it comes to navigating the challenges of a rapidly evolving mainframe environment," said Kris Manery, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mainframe Solutions business unit, Compuware.

Through its research, Compuware determined the best prepared organizations have placed a focus on the application rather than just its supporting infrastructure. Further, they have optimized their mainframe environment so they can pay closer attention to 1) maintaining developer efficiency; 2) delivering application quality and performance; and 3) ensuring optimal CPU consumption.

The innovative steps these organizations took to drive mainframe efficiencies are outlined in the "Mainframe Efficiency in the Real World" report along with multiple other illustrations of how enterprises solved IT challenges and the benefits each realized — whether in actual dollars, productivity gains and/or reduced risk to the enterprise.

One case study, for example, describes how an insurance company experiencing a high level of workforce turnover, deployed a code analysis tool to reduce new programmer learning curves. The analysis also helped developers adhere to coding standards. The company was able to deliver major enhancements on schedule and with fewer problems compared to the previous manual method; this resulted in a savings of $6 million in application delivery costs.

The detailed executive summary for the study may be downloaded at http://www.compuware.com/mainframe-solutions/white-papers. For a copy of the full report, email Mary McCarthy at mary.mccarthy@compuware.com.

About the Compuware Mainframe Solutions
Compuware's Mainframe solutions help the world's leading organizations maximize developer productivity, minimize costs and deliver better service. The Solutions are available within the Compuware Workbench, an open development environment that features an intuitive and easy-to-use graphical user interface. Workbench makes common mainframe tasks faster and simpler to perform for both experienced mainframers as well those new to the mainframe, enabling companies to develop new services faster, more efficiently and with higher quality utilizing existing resources.