For decades, enterprises have run complex applications on mainframes to power their most critical business processes. Dynamic business conditions, software-fueled business strategies, rising costs, and advancements in software and hardware technologies are leading enterprises to take a fresh look at mainframe modernization strategies. With the continued adoption of the public cloud, new disciplines like DevOps, platform engineering and System Reliability Engineering, new software approaches cloud-native, and the ongoing shortages of mainframe system programmers, enterprise IT leaders have been looking to take advantage of these advancements.
These new technologies and techniques allow IT leaders to continue leveraging mainframe investments while bringing in modern tools to replatform applications to run on standard hardware that leverages coding languages, processes, and technologies that better align with business requirements. This approach leads to application modernization, offering enterprises the best of both worlds: the reliability of their core mainframes and the flexibility of modern applications on commodity hardware to take advantage of new capabilities.
In this research brief, Application Modernization: The Catalyst for Mainframe Modernization, completed in partnership with Rocket Software, Futurum dives into how mainframe modernization practices can help enterprises leverage their existing IT assets and make them more agile, cost-effective, and usable long into the future.
Key takeaways from Application Modernization: The Catalyst for Mainframe Modernization include:
- Application replatforming, and how Rocket Software can help to simplify application complexity
- How enterprises can use adaptable, responsive technology stacks to improve and modernize their operations.
- How mainframe and application modernization can help to futureproof hiring strategies and attract new workers in what is a continuous journey to modernize and improve enterprise IT infrastructure.
If you are interested in learning more, be sure to download your copy of Application Modernization: The Catalyst for Mainframe Modernization today.
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Mitch Ashley is VP and Practice Lead for the CIO & Technology Buyers and Software Lifecycle Engineering practices at The Futurum Group. A multi-time CIO and CTO with 30+ years leading technical organizations, Mitch built and operated production systems spanning cybersecurity for the U.S. Department of Defense, PKI services for the broadband and 5G industries, SaaS platforms, large-scale telecom and banking systems, and a national broadband network. His work with AI began early, developing expert systems that diagnosed and repaired complex mainframe environments. That operator foundation grounds his analysis in operational consequence, covering the technology buyer's world of software engineering, cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud, and AI.
