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LzLabs Joins Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program to Deliver Mainframe Cloud Migration and Modernization

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Initiative will bring customers’ legacy mainframe applications to LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe® on Google Cloud

London, 23 July 2020 – LzLabs today announced that it has joined the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program as a Technology Partner, offering customers a comprehensive cloud experience when liberating their legacy applications from mainframe environments.

As a Google Cloud partner, LzLabs will provide customers with the opportunity to rehost and incrementally modernize mainframe applications with the LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe® (LzSDM®) running on Google Cloud’s Platform.

Many global enterprises seek to modernize their mainframe applications in order to benefit from greater agility, cost savings, and flexibility for innovation. Through this partnership, Google Cloud customers can now benefit from LzLabs’ unique technology and incremental modernization approach.

Once migrated to LzSDM on Google Cloud, mainframe workloads benefit from flexibility, reliability, and availability, and customers gain the agility benefits of managing these applications using modern DevOps and orchestration tools.

Enterprises also benefit from LzSDM’s unique ability to allow mainframe and rehosted applications on Open Systems to co-exist and interoperate, reducing disruption and risk. In addition, incremental application modernization opportunities and integrated compilation options within LzSDM help companies to maintain applications more easily and rewrite parts of them in new languages.

Customers re-hosting applications from legacy mainframe systems to Google Cloud will be supported by both LzLabs and Google Cloud throughout, ensuring a smooth transition.

“Many of the world’s largest enterprises have struggled to incorporate legacy mainframe applications and data into their cloud-native initiatives,” said Mark Cresswell, CEO, LzLabs. “Through relationships with cloud providers such as Google Cloud, we are enabling these customers to become cloud-native at their core.”

LzLabs and T-Systems Team Up to Drive Mainframe Transformation

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Teaming Agreement in DACH region supports enterprises in mainframe transformation and modernization journey with the LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe®

Zurich, 28 May 2020 –  LzLabs today announced an Agreement with T-Systems, one of the world-leading cross-manufacturer digital service providers, with the objective of offering customers a unique path to mainframe rehosting and transformation.

This new collaboration enables T-Systems to extend its current portfolio of mainframe services and options and to offer the LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe®(LzSDM). Working together, the two companies are already working on a number of client projects and initiatives designed to offer existing mainframe users the ability to “move and improve” legacy mainframe applications.

The relationship will form part of T-Systems’ European trademarked zFuture Program. This includes a range of services and knowledge both companies offer to help clients transform their mainframe applications.T-Systems as integrator orchestrates all activities in each customer’s application, including those running on LzSDM, and thus fully supports the customer’s journey to digitization and the Cloud.

Once migrated to LzSDM, mainframe workloads benefit from the unparalleled flexibility, reliability, and availability of cloud platforms, and customers gain the agility benefits of managing these applications using modern DevOps orchestration tools.

Enterprises also benefit from LzSDM’s unique ability to allow mainframe and rehosted applications on Open Systems to co-exist and interoperate, reducing disruption and risk. In addition, incremental application modernization opportunities and integrated compilation options within LzSDM enable acceleration of application maintenance as well as re-write initiatives.

At T-Systems everything comes from one source: from secure operation of existing systems and conventional IT and telecommunication services to transformation into the cloud, including international networks. As part of the agreement, T-Systems will provide systems integration services and ongoing support for qualification and assessment, through to discovery, transformation and, ultimately, taking customers into production on LzSDM, operating LzSDM within their different cloud offerings as an independent Cloud provider.

As organizations seek to integrate legacy applications with modern enterprise computing practices based on Linux and in the cloud, T-Systems and LzLabs customers now have the option to migrate applications, without recompilation or data reformatting, to LzSDM in modern and cloud-based environments.

“Enterprises across the world are under pressure to become cloud-enabled at their core, and through collaborations like this we are leading the charge to support and empower these customers” said Mark Cresswell, CEO, LzLabs. “Welcoming T-Systems into our growing ecosystem is an important milestone for the growth of LzSDM adoption across Europe and beyond”.

“We want to enable more choices for our customers when it comes to the transformation of their mainframe applications” said Andreas Greis, Senior Vice President Digital Solutions T-Systems.“In doing so we are driving the business of our customers forward – whether via replatform, rehost or refactor projects, in line with the Gartner Legacy Modernization Model. The appropriate way depends on the individual customer situation. This collaboration provides our customers with a powerful cloud-native rehosting solution to push efficiencies and agility within their mainframe portfolio”.

LzLabs forms Alliance with KPMG to smooth UK organizations’ mainframe journey to the cloud

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LzLabs partners with KPMG to advise senior business and IT leaders on legacy IT transformation

Zurich, 2 October 2019 – LzLabs today announced it has signed an Alliance Agreement with KPMG UK, the professional services firm, to offer Advisory, Risk, Deal consultancy and other services to UK customers seeking to modernize legacy IT. The Alliance will enable KPMG and LzLabs to help businesses better understand, plan and deliver such projects, specifically positioning KPMG’s advisory capabilities and LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe® (SDM) as an integral path to mainframe modernization.

As organizations seek to integrate legacy applications with modern enterprise computing practices based on Linux and in the cloud, global advisory firms have an opportunity to guide and advise senior IT leaders in the development of appropriate technology strategies leading to business and technology simplification, cost and risk reduction whilst accelerating their digital transformations.

KPMG will advise on target architecture and transformation program design, full business case justification, sourcing, service and cloud integration strategies, risk analysis and due diligence with a focus on client value and return on investment.

Mark Cresswell, CEO of LzLabs, said: “This Alliance has emerged in response to the increasing demand, we have both seen, from organizations looking to modernize their core systems.”

Phil Crozier, Partner at KPMG UK, said: “The combination of LzLabs technology and KPMG’s advisory proposition allows us to unlock clients from legacy mainframe applications and data and accelerate their approach to digital transformation.”

 

LzLabs appoints Duncan Love as Chief Financial Officer

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Experienced CFO appointed to support increased customer implementations across Europe

Zurich, 29 May 2019 – LzLabs today announced that it has appointed Duncan Love as Chief Financial Officer. Duncan brings over 20 years of corporate financial leadership experience across a variety of business environments and joins LzLabs to support rapid company expansion and accelerating customer uptake of LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe® (SDM) across Europe.

Duncan joins LzLabs from Exclaimer, where he led the company’s financial strategy as CFO. Duncan and has also held CFO roles at Inchora, Path Intelligence and Lumesse, in addition to further corporate finance roles at Fabris Lane and StepStone Solutions. He will be responsible for developing LzLabs’ financial strategy at a time of increased growth in SDM projects and to support further uptake of the solution globally.

“I’m delighted to join the LzLabs team during such an exciting period for the company” says Duncan Love, CFO, LzLabs. “We see a number of clear market drivers for the modernization of legacy IT, and LzLabs is perfectly positioned to provide a smooth, low-risk route to innovation. With LzLabs’ world class team and truly unique technology, I am excited to be a part of the Software Defined Mainframe revolution”.

Mark Cresswell, CEO, LzLabs adds, “Duncan will play an instrumental role in supporting the growth of LzLabs and is a valuable addition to the leadership team. We are thrilled to gain Duncan’s extensive experience and track record as a CFO, and his appointment will be invaluable in structuring our customers’ path to modernization. With Duncan on board, we continue our mission to liberate organizations from the constraints of legacy systems, and help them take their first step on a graceful path to open systems and modernization”

 

Swisscom – Open for Business

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6 November 2018

With over 7,000 attendees flooding through the doors at this year’s Barcelona Gartner Symposium, day one was always going to be busy on the LzLabs booth with attendees from around the world interested in finding out more about the Software Defined Mainframe and how it leverages open source solutions, such as OpenShift, OpenStack and PostgreSQL to deliver highly available mainframe on Linux.

Away from the exhibition, I was on stage with Markus Tschumper, Head of General IT Services at Swisscom. Together we discussed the Power of Open and how the LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe brings mainframe workload, without recompilation or data reformatting, to open platforms, enabling innovation on x86 and the cloud.

It was a pleasure to discuss with the audience just how much technology has changed in such a few short years, showing how ubiquitous connectivity and open source are proving to be two of the main enablers of digital transformation.

My keynote explored the inevitability of open source platforms, concluding that the Power of Open is being driven by three core factors: communities, innovation and imagination. None of which are currently common in a proprietary mainframe environments!

Markus and I then discussed how an announcement to build a cloud service offering in Switzerland in 2013 by Swisscom led the communications giant to become the first company in the world to break free of the proprietary mainframe and adopt a Software Defined Mainframe from LzLabs.

Markus summed up Swisscom’s modernization journey during our discussion: “You need to have courage, and be ready for a change project, but it works, it really works.”

It is only a matter of time before Swisscom is joined by other companies with ambitions to migrate from the mainframe. Since last year’s Gartner Symposium in Barcelona last year, the firm has begun projects at about a dozen organizations with a strong sales pipeline throughout Europe.

In addition to hearing from LzLabs and Swisscom, attendees at the Symposium also heard from a selection of leading Gartner analysts. Leigh McMullen, VP Analyst, Gartner, discussed how it is important to create a culture that is ready for anything, noting that most enterprise transformations fail because of their culture rather than the technology.

Kai Zimmer, Associate Director Consulting, Gartner and Saptarshi Routh, VP Consulting, Gartner gave a ‘how to’ presentation diving into the lessons learnt from successful and failed digital transformation initiatives. While Dave Aron, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner, discussed three advanced digital transformation practices: Fear, fact, and faith-based portfolio segmentation, better net present value calculations and real option valuation. And how CIOs and other IT leaders should think through these practices and discuss them with their CFO, CEO and other business leaders to improve digital investment decision making.

For all the latest updates from Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Barcelona 2018 make sure you visit LzLabs stand 511.