CIO Dive: Value in mainframes? Depends on who you ask
The art of rehosting mainframe applications
The art of rehosting mainframe applications Find out how applications written and compiled to run on mainframe environments can be run on Linux-based x86_64 systems, without source-code changes or recompilation At a high-level, any application can be made to run on a different platform by modifying and re-compiling its source code to provide a binary […]
The art of rehosting mainframe applications
At a high-level, any application can be made to run on a different platform by modifying and re-compiling its source code to provide a binary module for execution on the target platform. The reason recompilation is required is that the machine level instructions generated by a compiler are particular to the architecture of the underlying […]
Information Age: Treading the path to a successful digital transformation
The anatomy of mainframe application workload
The art of rehosting mainframe applications What are the considerations, challenges and solutions available to organizations when migrating mainframe applications to modern platforms? At a high-level, any application can be made Consequently, when migrating applications from this platform to another, considerations must be made for all of these in order to ensure success. This is […]
DataCenter Insider: Risikofaktor Mainframe
Complete Mainframe Migration: a Q&A with Swisscom’s Markus Tschumper
Markus Tschumper, Head of General IT Services at Swisscom, and I met on stage at Garter Symposium/ITXpo 2018 to discuss Swisscom’s migration to the LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe®(SDM). Covering the cultural, technology and skills challenges of such a project, and how LzLabs and Swisscom overcame these together, Markus gives his advice to any business seeking […]
DevOps Chat: Mainframe Attitudes with LzLabs’ Dale Vecchio
LzRelational™
Many organizations that continue to depend on the mainframe for their enterprise applications use the DB2® RDBMS for their mission-critical data. LzRelational provides support for relational schemas using PostgreSQL, an open-source RDBMS.
LzBatch™ Data Sheet
Many organizations continue to depend on the mainframe for batch job processing. This traditional method of overnight workload remains a key component of many existing mainframe applications.
LzOnline™ Data Sheet
Online transactional systems are a significant component of many organizations’ legacy mainframe applications. The power of today’s x86 platforms and cloud deployment models give companies more modern choices for their transactional systems.