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Computer Weekly: LzLabs CEO – app modernisation is (a form of) development

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Similar to the ‘chicken or the egg’ debate, many organisations question whether to start modernising the application, whilst still on the mainframe, or moving applications off their legacy infrastructure first: moving then improving.

It can, of course, be tempting to take a look at these applications, running in a stable fashion on a platform that has been ticking over consistently for years… and conclude that this is where they should belong. After all, wouldn’t the process of trying to move them off just make the job harder?

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LeMagIT: Les mainframes d’IBM traversent une passe difficile

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Tous les indicateurs semblent dire qu’IBM et ses clients abandonnent petit à petit cette gamme de machines. Les analystes estiment au contraire qu’elle n’est pas près de sortir du marché.

Alors qu’IBM entretient une relation intime avec les clients fidèles de ses mainframes, plusieurs signes suggèrent que le fournisseur prévoit désormais de remplacer ces vénérables systèmes par des matériels et logiciels plus traditionnels, qui fonctionnent également de manière distribuée.

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TechTarget: IBM mainframes face competitive pressures inside and out

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IBM’s mainframe business continues to be under pressure from cloud-based competitors, and perhaps even its own Power server. But analyst opinions vary about its long-term fate.

While IBM holds tight to its loyal base of mainframe users, there are signs that the company is placing less long-term strategic emphasis on the venerable system in favor of other distributed hardware and software platforms.

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Intelligent CIO: Swisscom moves entire mainframe workload to software defined mainframe in the cloud

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LzLabs has announced that leading Swiss telecommunications and IT service provider, Swisscom, has migrated its entire mainframe workload to the cloud, running on LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe. With this migration, Swisscom has achieved a landmark in enterprise IT, by moving its business critical legacy mainframe applications and data to its own enterprise cloud infrastructure, without any data reformatting or recompilation of its application program code.

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Finextra: Insurance tech – should legacy applications stand in the way of innovation?

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The insurance industry is ripe with innovation. Tempted by the fruits of technological change, insurers seek greater opportunities for data collection, smart, adaptive policies and fraud detection that can lead to better risk identification and mitigation measures.

For traditional players, existing IT infrastructure stands firmly in the way of this drive. Legacy mainframe systems, commonly buried deep in the bedrock of enterprise IT, are at the heart of their challenge.

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