Shadow Significantly Lowers Your Mainframe Costs

In many circles, enterprise architects and developers equate the IBM System Z mainframe platform with expensive processing costs. However, by dramatically lowering mainframe Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in a variety of ways, DataDirect Shadow is quickly changing this perception.

By maximizing IBM zIIP specialty engine exploitation, substantially reducing integration complexity, and optimizing developer productivity, DataDirect Shadow enables enterprise organizations to better incorporate mainframe functionality and data into more modern Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and at the same time reduce TCO and save precious IT budget dollars.

• Optimizing zIIP Specialty Engine Exploitation – DataDirect Shadow is engineered to reduce mainframe costs through its unique, patent-pending technology that exploits IBM's zIIP and zAAP specialty engines - both of which are unmeasured, non-speed restricted processing environments. In fact, more than 90% of the integration processing for Web services supporting SOA or large data queries can be offloaded to no-charge areas of the mainframe, reducing MSU utilization and delivering substantial TCO reductions.



• Minimizing Integration Complexity – DataDirect Shadow is a single, unified integration architecture supporting mainframe SOA enablement and data integration. By eliminating the necessity to support redundant point integration solutions Shadow diminishes integration complexity, mitigates points of failure, and slashes TCO for the mainframe.



• Maximizing Developer Productivity – Via a comprehensive mainframe integration product suite, DataDirect Shadow provides substantial developer efficiency gains and delivers immediate mainframe TCO reductions. Moreover, with newfound resource flexibility, IT executives can reallocate scarce developer resources to new application development initiatives that meet ever-evolving business requirements.

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