The document discusses a keynote presentation given by Ashok Reddy, General Manager of CA Technologies, at CA World 2016 on the topic of the mission-essential mainframe as part of an organization's innovation agenda. The presentation covers how the mainframe continues to be mission critical for applications, transactions, and high availability. It also discusses how partnerships, cloud technologies, security, automation, analytics and other innovations are helping customers drive their innovation agendas and transform their businesses using mainframe technologies.