OcatetoIT · Consulting Services
Specialized mainframe consulting
Optimization, operational resilience, capacity planning, modernization and security for your mainframe environment.
Optimization Disaster recovery Capacity planning Modernization Security
About the OcatetoIT
OcatetoIT is an IT consulting company that aims to optimize and reduce IT costs through assessments, customized workshops, Health Checks, modernization, and digital transformation, correct direction for the use of Hybrid Cloud, and the best use of emerging technologies.
They work with Operational Resilience, specifically Disaster Recovery on the mainframe platform to prevent an unexpected situation from endangering your entire business, sometimes due to the traditional expiration of recovery/restore procedures. Seeking the best RTO (Recovery Time Objective), an RPO (Recovery Point Objective), and even an RNO (Recovery Network Objective) is their main objective in this area.
Our company also works in the area of mainframe security, where there is a growing demand for in-depth analysis of hardware and software related to this field.
One of the major obstacles to the sustainability of the mainframe platform is the requirement for skilled personnel. OcatetoIT has experts who are skilled in the zOS™ operating system and can assist novices through personalized workshops and offer technical mentorship to new mainframe staff.
Areas of expertise
From performance to security, we support the whole lifecycle of your mainframe environment.
Optimization
Better performance and lower cost across zOS, subsystems and storage.
Disaster Recovery
Tested DR plans and operational resilience, ready when you need them.
Capacity Planning and Performance
Right-sized resources on the mainframe and in the hybrid Cloud.
Mainframe modernization
New hardware and software features, with the right priorities.
Security
RACF, cryptography and proactive protection against attacks.
Optimization
We analyze the main points where it’s possible to optimize the mainframe environment and its connections with the distributed systems in your installation.
We work with the zOS™ operating system in the analysis of all the necessary parameterization for the correct processing of your business applications. We analyze the CICS™, DB2™ and MQ® subsystems from a performance and optimization standpoint, as a zOS™ workload managed by WLM®.
We optimize the use of monitoring and support software. It’s common for clients to have excellent monitoring/observability software that is underutilized. How can these monitors be effectively useful? Directly influencing IT performance and consequently your business is fundamental. How does your site use and work with observability?
We not only work in the logical architectural area, but also in the study and correction of the physical distribution of hardware resources.
In the storage area, we work across the entire dichotomy of physical and logical I/O and its technological modernization, its importance in disaster recovery, and the automation of unplanned downtime situations.
Disaster Recovery (Operational Resilience)
OcatetoIT works with clients to evaluate an existing plan or creates a plan from scratch, considering the client’s fundamental needs to keep the business active even in the event of a total loss. In the area of Disaster Recovery, one of the worst situations is that of a Rolling Disaster, meaning there is no clear start that can facilitate the application of procedures. To do this, it is necessary to have an effectively trained and prepared team in continuous testing. OcatetoIT creates and implements these procedures.
An example of technology to be used, if applicable, is the exploration of the possibilities of clustering between nearby sites through active SYSPLEX and asynchronous duplexing.
OcatetoIT has explored this and other low-cost technologies with favorable results.
Capacity planning and performance
Capacity planning and performance analysis are essential, especially when considering the migration of workloads to the cloud. It’s common for cloud environments to experience cost spikes, and the responsibility for analyzing and preventing such situations often falls on the client, as cloud providers only provide optimization resources.
OcatetoIT recognizes this and will assist you in optimizing your resources, whether in a hybrid or non-hybrid cloud environment. New methodologies, including machine learning, such as LLM, are emerging in fertile ground for controlling your site. Tool providers are taking note of this changing dynamic. OcatetoIT will work with the client in creating or adapting the best capacity planning methodologies.
Mainframe modernization
Using the functions that IBM™ makes available is already an effective challenge and customers know that there must be a well-defined prioritization of new hardware, software, and firmware functions to explore. Even fundamental features such as CICSplex, VSAM RLS, etc… are sometimes not implemented due to a lack of qualified professionals.
Therefore, modernization can be both the update of forgotten functions and fundamentally, the use of new functions such as zCDX, Quantum safe, etc… There are a range of implementations available, but without doubt, there must be a correct vision of what needs to be explored effectively.
OcatetoIT can also assist you in this regard. We should modernize properly! It has already been proven that modernization does not mean ending the mainframe, but rather taking from it everything it offers in terms of high availability, processing power, and security.
Security
As explained in the introduction of our website, security is now more important than ever and must be perfectly explored and optimized.
OcatetoIT believes that only proactivity in the best use of technology can counter the increasingly frequent cyber-attacks. The mainframe offers various effective forms of protection. Ocateto IT analyzes and optimizes the use of these functions, such as the best use of RACF™, cryptographic processors, etc.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers about how OcatetoIT works.
What does OcatetoIT do?
OcatetoIT is an IT consulting company specialized in mainframe. We help optimize and reduce IT costs through assessments, customized workshops, Health Checks, modernization and digital transformation, and the right use of Hybrid Cloud and emerging technologies.
Which mainframe services does OcatetoIT offer?
Optimization of the zOS environment and the CICS, DB2 and MQ subsystems; disaster recovery and operational resilience; capacity planning and performance, including in the hybrid Cloud; mainframe modernization; and security, focused on making the best use of RACF and cryptographic processors.
How does your disaster recovery work?
We review your existing Disaster Recovery plan or build one from scratch, aiming for the best RTO, RPO and RNO. We prepare your team with continuous testing, including Rolling Disaster scenarios, and explore low-cost technologies such as active SYSPLEX and asynchronous duplexing between nearby sites.
Does modernizing the mainframe mean moving away from it?
No. For OcatetoIT, modernizing means getting everything the mainframe offers in high availability, processing capacity and security: updating forgotten features and adopting new ones, such as zCDX and Quantum safe, with well-defined priorities.
Can OcatetoIT help control Cloud costs?
Yes. In capacity planning, we analyze how resources are allocated in the hybrid Cloud to avoid runaway costs, and we support the creation and adaptation of methodologies, including Machine Learning.
Do you train mainframe professionals?
Yes. Through customized workshops and technical mentoring, professionals who master zOS support the new mainframers on your team.
Where is OcatetoIT located and how can I get in touch?
We are at Rua Luiz Louzã, 28, suite 26, São Caetano do Sul (SP), Brazil. Contact us at +55 (11) 99692-6979, contato@ocatetoit.com or through the form on this page.
Contact us
Get in touch with us without any obligation so that we can be helpful in the optimization and revitalization of your IT environment, whether it’s hardware and/or software, or strengthening your professional skills.
Address
Rua Luiz Louzã, 28 – sl. 26
São Caetano do Sul – SP, 09540-430