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MicroScope: LzLabs moving to plug mainframe expertise gap

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Pressure is mounting from various sides on those customers that are still using apps that are stuck on aging mainframes.

Those customers running business critical apps on mainframes are just a few years away from a deep skills crisis that could leave them struggling. 

A looming wave of retirements means that many of those with the skills and knowledge of existing legacy mainframes are not far from leaving the business at a time when firms are keen to get access to their data as part of wider digital transformation efforts. 

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Fintech Direct: LzLabs And KPMG Go Cloud Hunting

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Zurich-based software company LzLabs has signed an alliance agreement with professional services firm KPMG UK to offer advisory, risk and deal consultancy – and a shot at the coveted cloud market.

As part of the deal, KPMG will bring its advisory capabilities while LzLabs has its Software Defined Mainframe (SDM). The latter is designed to let customer legacy applications run unchanged on both Linux hardware and cloud infrastructures.

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DevOps.com: Why Legacy Application Development is a Challenge

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Enterprises seeking to modernize their legacy mainframe applications often cite the key reason as not being able to evolve quickly enough to support the changing needs of the business. This is also a driving force behind the increasing trend toward moving these legacy applications onto other platforms, either by attempting to rewrite or re-platform them.

If this was a simple process however, the transition would have happened years ago. So, why is it so difficult to modernize mainframe applications? It is surely not the programming language. COBOL and other traditional languages are simply programming languages. They may not be considered “cool,” but neither are many of the other scripting or development languages, or configuration syntax programmers deal with day in and day out.

So, what actually makes legacy application modernization challenging? After countless conversations with several outsourcers, system integrators and mainframe customers, four major issues came up time and time again.

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ComputerWeekly.de: Software Defined Mainframe (SDM): die Abkehr vom Großrechner

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Mainframes sind in unzählige Prozesse involviert. Betrieb und Wartung stellen eine besondere Herausforderung dar. Eine Abkehr von klassischen Mainframe ist aber möglich.

Auch wenn schon lange totgesagt, so begegnet dem Durchschnittsbürger der Mainframe noch immer nahezu überall, nur eben nicht unmittelbar. Ob bei einer Kreditkartenzahlung, Reisebuchung oder einer Interaktion mit einer Versicherung – fast überall sind Großrechner involviert. Sie leisten seit Jahrzehnten ihren Dienst.

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