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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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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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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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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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An old conundrum of the IT industry is that the pace of change can be slow for an area that is so often described as fast-moving and dynamic. Nowhere is this clearer than in the field of IBM mainframe computing where a model dating back to the middle of the 20th century has persisted despite sky-high costs, mounting administration concerns and a crippling lack of flexibility. But now the mainframe’s tenacious grip on corporate IT may, finally, be weakening.

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