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The challenges organizations face with legacy systems are not in fact a result of COBOL, or any other programming language; the language is just a syntax for expressing business rules. A programming language like any other which anyone can learn.

So why are so many organizations – including the state governments of New Jersey, Kansas, Connecticut and Colorado – experiencing such issues with legacy applications written in COBOL? I argue that the problem is not with COBOL itself, but with the arcane mainframe environment the programmers must inhabit to maintain the programs.

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Following its North American expansion, LzLabs has joined Google Cloud’s partner advantage program as a tech ally for mainframe emancipation aims.

Zurich-based software company LzLabs says as a partner it can provide customers with the option to rehost and “incrementally modernise” mainframe applications with its Software Defined Mainframe (LzSDM) running on Google Cloud’s platform.

Mark Cresswell, CEO, LzLabs, states: “Through relationships with cloud providers such as Google Cloud, we are enabling these customers to become cloud-native at their core.”

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LzLabs, a mainframe migration software specialist based in Zurich, is coming to North America, where it has heard a few mainframes still exist, some rumored to lack source code or documentation.

Founded in 2011, LzLabs provides software and services to help companies move mainframe business applications and data to modern systems and evolve them into modern formats. Then they can run on modern technology platforms, including cloud. The company expects to find a market among banks, insurance companies and other early adopters of computers who are now stuck with massive applications and a shortage of Cobol programmers.

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Aided by a partnership with Microsoft, LzLabs is bringing its software-defined mainframe technology to North America. Zurich-based LzLabs will offer its LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe to customers in verticals such as banking, telecoms, insurance and government.

Founded in 2011, LzLabs provides software and services to help companies move their mainframe business applications and data to modern systems and evolve them into modern formats. The company’s solutions enable customers to choose the best platform for running their applications. In addition to modernizing their mainframes, LzLabs said its customers also save money by using its solutions.

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Cloud-based mainframe provider LzLabs is expanding into the North American market, seeking to help banks, payment companies, insurance providers, telcos and government entities convert legacy mainframes to software-based platforms.

Switzerland-based LzLabs provides software and services through its Software Defined Mainframe to help companies move mainframe business applications and data to modern systems, citing an ability to save money as well as more easily adapt to new technologies in the future.

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