Mainframe Server Training Courses, Career Details
A mainframe server is a very large and powerful server used to control a large portion
of an enterprise. There are only a few companies that produce true mainframe servers.
Mainframes are sometimes called "Enterprise Servers" or "Super Computers". While
the term server can refer to hardware or software, mainframe server always refers
to hardware. Mainframe servers often resemble a refrigerator. Mainframe servers
include an array of CPUs, memory and disk drives. They have hot-swappable power
supplies and uninterrupted power supplies all built into the machine. They contain
special CPUs designed for mathematical algorithms. Mainframes are often involved
behind the scenes with everyday tasks such as completing ATM transactions or making
airline ticket reservations. In addition, mainframes are used to store sensitive
consumer, corporate and government information such as health records, financial
information and government data. Let’s take a look over mainframe
certification course in detail.
Eligibility:
Candidate must be a BE/ B.Tech/ ME/ M.Tech/ MCA with 60% marks to be
eligible for a course in Mainframes. There is no entrance exam for Mainframe Server
specialists. There are many private Institutes which offers
mainframes certification course.
Career Options:
Given the staying prowess of the Mainframes, the career options are also
very stable. Since most of the Fortune companies employ their services, almost all
major IT Service Providers work on them. Majority of the jobs are in maintenance
while a few are into applications also. Among bigger Indian players, TCS, Infosys,
Wipro and Satyam provide jobs on Mainframes, not to mention IBM itself, where one
can look forward to work in the Research Department.
Scope:
One of the fundamental reasons is the reliability factor. Mainframes are not as
susceptible to virus attacks as the emerging fourth-generation languages or open
systems. Businesses like banking, retail, money markets and insurance, for instance,
where huge data is processed every minute and where each failure can prove fatal
to business, will never trust any other machine. Mainframes are the software equivalent
of Rolex in watches, or the Rolls Royce in cars. It seldom fails, and there is nothing
more reliable.
A mainframe server can be used as a file server
for a very large organization (this usually means the government or government contracted
organizations). Large universities and research organizations also use mainframes
for various projects. Mainframes can be clustered together to harness the power
of multiple servers and perform a single task. Cancer researchers use clusters of
IBM servers to perform linear algebra and other mathematical operations needed to
complete research. On the fun side, Sun Microsystems is now leasing their enterprise
servers to certain groups such as animators and graphics producers to perform rendering.
Over 200 billion lines of COBOL applications are in use on mainframes and more are
being added continuously. Many of these applications are custom-built and represent
a huge investment for mainframe users.
In the current scenario, where organisations have increased spending on storage
solutions, there is a trend which indicates that mainframes may gain a bigger share
in the IT budgets of CIOs. More than 70 percent of the world’s data still resides
on mainframes. The market is growing in terms of revamping the older mainframes
and adding new features and software to the oldies. Also, the new mainframes are
smaller, cheaper, more powerful and e-business ready, so the market is growing steadily.
India has expanded its outsourcing projects and the Indian companies are moving
up the stairs of choice for outsourcing destinations for foreign firms. This all
has raised the needs of larger data computations and processing. Based on this feedback
from market trend and the growth rate of about 40-50%, analysts are calculating
that India will plug the fire for onset of mainframe computers in the industry.
Remuneration:
A mainframe specialist can get a salary of Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 60,000 per month
and above.
List of Institutes
for Mainframe Servers Training Course in India:
- Pune Institute of Mainframe Technology, Pune.
- Electronics Research and Development Centre of India (ER & DC), Thiruvananthapuram.
- Pentasoft Technologies, Chennai.
- MSME-Development Institute, Mumbai.
- Data Software Research Company Private Limited (DSRC), Banglore.
- Techrel Technologies, Pune.
- Global, Mumbai.
- Maples.
- Texas.
- SISI.
