Tag: Mainframes

The IBM mainframe remains a widely-used enterprise system, hosting core business-critical applications for the world’s leading banks, airlines, insurers, and more. Learn how to unleash the value of core business applications and data running on mainframes by exposing them as industry standard RESTful APIs with a no-code approach. Take advantage of these APIs using IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Stack to enable cloud-native applications in AWS to securely interact with mainframe applications and data.

IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Stack on AWS provide a cloud-native experience to modernize development practices, helping developers adopt a unified set of tools and DevOps methodology. Learn how the Wazi components available in IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Stack provide modern experiences for analyzing, developing, and testing mainframe applications in an isolated way, implementing the DevOps philosophy for developers to gain speed and flexibility.

Mainframes continue to support major applications in many enterprises, running the software that is core to their business. Replatforming with TmaxSoft OpenFrame, TmaxSoft Tibero, and AWS is a cost-effective solution to aging mainframes. Learn about the replatforming components, why the combined solution is unique, and best practices for implementation. TmaxSoft is an AWS Mainframe Modernization Competency Partner and global software innovator focused on infrastructure and data modernization

Legacy technologies such as COBOL, IDMS, Natural, Adabas, Assembler, IMS, and EGL, as well as their rapidly vanishing expertise, are becoming the number one burden for many mainframe customers. Learn how Astadia can help customers quickly and safely move entire mainframe applications to AWS. Astadia works with clients to modernize their IT investments to accelerate time to value, increase productivity, decrease risk, and optimize costs.

At re:Invent 2021, AWS announced AWS Mainframe Modernization to help customers modernize their mainframe workloads with a managed and highly available runtime environment on AWS. Collaborating with IBM, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, AWS is extending the available application modernization options to enable customers to select the right modernization path for their business. To start, we have identified five patterns in support of a hybrid cloud approach.

The State of Utah’s Office of Recovery Services has successfully moved a 25-years-old mainframe application to AWS GovCloud (US)—in budget and on time—using mainframe modernization capabilities from Deloitte and AWS. The story behind this effort shows how beneficial such a move can be, from a day-to-day perspective and from a strategic perspective. It demonstrates that a high degree of automation and standardization makes this a riskless approach for getting rid of legacy technology such as COBOL and VSAM.

From a wide range of AWS Partner success stories to new partner programs launched at AWS re:Invent, here’s a look at the most popular APN Blog posts we shared in 2021. Our goal with this blog has always been to share timely and relevant news, technical solutions, partner stories, and more from Amazon Web Services and the AWS Partner Network (APN) specifically. Thank you for reading the APN Blog, and Happy New Year to all our AWS Partners and customers!

There is a huge opportunity to move mainframe applications to the cloud, allowing organizations to leverage benefits like cost reduction, improved agility, and the ability to unlock data to drive insights. Learn how the Atos SyntBots solution accelerates the testing of mainframe migration projects. We’ll also explore how establishing data and functional equivalence between the mainframe and migrated systems is made comprehensive and accelerated using this approach.

We are excited to highlight 125 AWS Partners that received new designations in November for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), AWS Service Delivery, and AWS Service Ready programs. These designations span workload, solution, and industry, and help AWS customers identify top AWS Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. AWS Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of the business benefits AWS has to offer.

Thank you for joining us in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent 2021. We hope you are enjoying all of the educational content and big announcements. If you missed anything from our Global Partner Summit or just want to recap, we have rounded up the most relevant launches, program updates, and educational content available for the AWS Partner community. Reminder that virtual options for re:Invent breakout sessions will be available December 6-10.