Category: Mainframe & Legacy

Many enterprises have significant portions of their workloads running either as batch or online but still operating on mainframe technologies. Delve into the complex landscape of modernizing mainframe applications and migrating them to AWS, exploring the significant challenges that organizations face and how HCLTech’s Advantage Modernize Framework overcomes these challenges and paves the way for a successful and efficient transition to AWS.

To embark on a successful journey of mainframe modernization, it’s crucial to have a plan that aligns with business priorities and technical drivers. AWS Mainframe Modernization Service provides multiple approaches to meet customers’ objectives. Some of these approaches are automated from assessment to migration, and this post provides an overview of the relevance, challenges, approach, and methodology employed by Wipro and AWS

Legacy technologies can be challenging to maintain and integrate with modern applications, channels, and architectures. Modernizing such systems requires specialized expertise to decouple and expose core architecture, and a carefully planned approach to minimize risks, control costs, and ensure success. Learn how OpenLegacy helps enterprises untangle monolithic core systems with its integration technology to build APIs from legacy assets like mainframes and midrange systems.

As technology advances and business requirements change, organizations may find themselves needing to migrate away from legacy data processing systems like HBase, Solr, and HBase Indexer. Explore the advantages of migrating from HBase, Solr, and HBase indexer to a modern data ecosystem based on AWS, and dive deep on the discuss architecture, design, and pathways for implementation. This post offers insights and guidance from Rackspace for those looking to embark on this intricate migration journey.

Outdated technology poses particular challenges to many businesses., as legacy systems or outdated applications can accumulate bugs and other issues over time. Moreover, it isn’t easy to find viable solutions that can integrate with or are cost-effective for legacy applications because of their age. Modernizing legacy systems is the right solution for engaging with and attracting new customers. Learn how DXC Technology is migrating monolithic Java applications from on-premises to AWS.

State Farm, a leading insurance company, is leading the way in modernizing its mainframe application. By embracing the cloud and adopting robust workload automation tools, State Farm achieved greater agility and operational efficiency while delivering an enhanced customer experience. This modernization journey highlights the transformative power of cloud computing and intelligent workload automation in today’s competitive business landscape.

Various paths can be taken to address the perceived need for modernization. Some consider moving existing mainframe applications to distributed or cloud platforms to reduce costs, enhance performance, and increase business agility as a form of modernization. Learn how the Accenture AWS Business Group (AABG) simplifies mainframe modernization complexity with its Mainframe Zero Approach. Accenture offers comprehensive solutions to migrate and manage operations on AWS.

Due to the legacy nature and and high maintenance cost of its legacy AS400 application running in an on-premises data center, a large global oil and gas company decided to move to the cloud as part of its application modernization to reduce cost and improve productivity. Learn how DXC Technology can help migrate workloads to AWS in large-scale environments and bridge the gap in migrating applications across traditional, private cloud, and AWS environments.

To curb spend and unlock scale, Precisely collaborates with AWS to provide the means to synchronize mainframe data in the cloud at speed and power modern applications. Learn how Precisely Connect integrates data seamlessly from legacy systems into next-generation cloud and data platforms. Using Precisely Connect, data from sequential files, VSAM datasets, or databases such as IMS and Db2 can be transferred to Amazon RDS.

AWS and BMC Software present a best practice-based approach to secure mainframe data from ransomware attacks or any other source of logical data corruption. Leveraging the scale, performance, and innovation of AWS allows mainframe customers to achieve cyber resiliency faster and more efficiently than with an on-premises solution. Learn how BMC AMI Cloud Vault takes advantage of Amazon S3 to create multiple copies of mainframe data and inherently ensure all copies are protected.