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.
