According to a recent Forrester Research study, three of the four top software concerns for IT executives pertain to applications, with 66% of respondents citing that updating and modernizing legacy applications is a critical priority. Knee-jerk reactions imply a hardware change is the solution, but instead organizations should consider the varying nature of their application workloads to determine the  best course of action.

This paper highlights the results of Forrester’s recent study examining the total economic impact (TEI) and potential return on investment (ROI) of companies deploying IBM Systems z. Read on to gain insights into the experiences of various organizations working with IBM System z, including:

• Top resource constraints impacting future growth
• Key investment drivers for mission-critical applications
• The need to standardize and consolidate
• System availability requirements
• And more.