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LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe

Ben Twomey

TOOLinux: Rendre les applications mainframe cloud native – plus facile que vous ne l’imaginez

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Dans cette tribune, Mark Cresswell explique le concept « cloud native » et les raisons pour lesquelles les applications historiques n’ont pas pu normalement en bénéficier. Il partage ensuite des conseils pour permettre aux équipes de développement de rendre même ces applications traditionnelles « cloud native », afin de pouvoir tirer profit des innovations open source et modernes.

Selon une fausse idée, pourtant très répandue, le cloud serait uniquement réservé aux nouvelles applications écrites spécifiquement pour cette architecture. En réalité, de nombreuses initiatives émergent pour transformer les applications historiques afin qu’elles puissent, elles aussi, en tirer parti. Les principaux acteurs du monde du cloud publient des composants d’infrastructure logicielle dans un modèle open source, afin de soutenir l’enthousiasme croissant du déploiement cloud.

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ComputerWeekly.com: Applications – Combining the old with the new

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We look at how organisations can integrate legacy applications with newer digital platforms

Legacy applications are still extremely valuable to organisations, as they tend to offer the kind of security, reliability and resilience required. Innovation-fuelling data is also often stored in legacy databases. These tend to be systems of record and are used to support critical business functions, such as data processing.

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Journal du Net: L’architecture en microservices, pour un développement rapide et fluide

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Face à la nécessité d’être agile tout en composant avec la complexité croissante des applications, les architectures logicielles à base de microservices montent en puissance.

Dans le domaine informatique, Marc Andreessen l’avait prédit en 2011 lors de la publication de son très célèbre article du Wall Street Journal  “Pourquoi le logiciel dévore le monde” –  “Nous sommes à l’aube d’un bouleversement massif et vaste, dans lequel les sociétés logicielles sont destinées à prendre le contrôle de larges pans de l’économie”.

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ComputerWeekly.com: IT modernisation series – LzLabs: Making mainframe apps ‘cloud-native’

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Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes.

In this series of articles we investigate how organisations are approaching the modernisation, replatforming and migration of legacy applications and related data services.

A general misconception is that the cloud is a home purely for new applications. In fact, many initiatives are underway to transform legacy applications such that they can take advantage of the cloud. Major players in the cloud world are contributing software infrastructure along with an open source model, to support this exponentially growing enthusiasm for cloud deployment.

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LzLabs signs agreement with Capgemini’s Business Unit Spain to drive mainframe application modernization for clients

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Systems integration agreement supports the customer journey from mainframe to open systems and the cloud

Zurich, 19 March 2020 – LzLabs today announced that it has signed an agreement with Capgemini’s Business Unit Spain, part of the Capgemini Group, a global leader in consulting, consulting services and digital transformation, to support its customers in their implementation of LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe® (LzSDM®).

As part of the agreement, Capgemini’s Business Unit Spain will provide technical systems integration services on joint projects with LzLabs to support customers throughout their mainframe migration journey to the cloud. Their services will support qualification and assessment, through to discovery and, ultimately, taking customers into production on LzSDM.

Many of the world’s largest enterprises have struggled to incorporate legacy mainframe applications and data into their “cloud-first” initiatives. One aim of this agreement is to help customers become cloud-enabled at their core. Using LzSDM, customers now have the option to migrate applications, without recompilation or data reformatting, to architectures such as the Capgemini Cloud Platform.

Once migrated to LzSDM, customers gain the agility benefits of managing their legacy mainframe applications using modern DevOps orchestration tools. Enterprises also benefit from LzSDM’s unique ability to allow mainframe and rehosted applications on Open Systems to co-exist and interoperate. In addition, incremental application modernization opportunities and integrated compilation options within LzSDM enable tangible acceleration of application maintenance as well as re-write initiatives.

LzLabs and Capgemini have a number of joint LzSDM engagements currently in progress. As the latest LzLabs global strategic partner, Capgemini joins a growing number of global systems integrators in collaborating with LzLabs to deliver open innovation for organizations reliant on applications currently residing on mainframes.

“We are excited to partner with global leaders in systems integration such as Capgemini, who are truly aligned in supporting our mission to help customers become cloud-enabled at their core.” Said Mark Cresswell, CEO, LzLabs. “We already have a number of joint projects in progress and are delighted to be able to offer customers the unparalleled level of expertise that Capgemini is renowned for”, he continued.

“This partnership will be very useful for our clients, who demand the best solutions to be able to move to into a new agile world. Lzlabs and Capgemini have a great opportunity to offer the best solution in efficiency and agility in a world moving to the cloud”, said Jesús Garrán, COO of the Spain Business Unit, Capgemini.