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Rising operating and maintenance costs, limited scalability and agility, and the need to glean insights more easily from collected data have outpaced the capabilities of the modern mainframe.
However, it’s not easy to retire what has successfully driven business for decades. But beyond the associated retiring workforce, mainframes too often generate technical debt that squeezes budgets, squelches modernization initiatives and directs funds away from what drives every industry — innovation.
Read through this e-book for help evaluating the risks and rewards of mainframe modernization through the 6 Rs — retiring, resourcing, rehosting, recoding and rewriting, and re-architecting.