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Mainframe in the era of cloud
computing
In the next era of cloud computing, mainframes will play a central role
in organizations’ digital transformation journey providing unmatched
reliability, security and resiliency. Today, organizations face challenges
to optimize their mainframe performance and utilization without
impacting their business.
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE MAINFRAME
Power your core business. As you begin to embrace new hybrid
multicloud computing models, IBMZ continues to be the engine
powering your core business.
Build a hybrid multicloud strategy. Provide a comprehensive
strategy including capabilities that define the role of the mainframe
in the enterprise today and how it integrates into the greater hybrid
multicloud technology ecosystem.
Use a secure and resilient platform. Secure and protect data with
encryption everywhere and provide resilience with zero downtime.
Leverage existing skills and resources. Adopt modern and agile
practices while leveraging existing talent and resources.
What’s inside?
This field guide provides a high-level overview of IBM’s strategy to
help you modernize on IBM Z®.
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A summary of the concepts. Tips to start the journey to
modernize your enterprise.
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IBM can help get you there
Overcome the challenges and status quo of doing things the way you
have always done them by adopting the new transformative main-
frame to achieve business results, mitigate risk, and optimize work-
load and cost.
REMOVE OBSTACLES ALONG THE WAY
Learn more
Learn about the IBM Mainframe application modernization architecture.
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/architecture/architectures/application-
modernization-mainframe/
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Lower TCO and improve maintainability. Invest in modern
mainframe tools and technology, which bring new function and
capabilities. Optimize how you prioritize and distribute workloads
to pinpoint inefficiencies that lead to overruns of service level
agreements. Reduce the overall total cost of ownership (TCO) and
improve overall maintainability of the application systems.
Drive business agility and speed to market. Mainframe
applications and data are complex and tightly coupled, which make
it difficult to continuously improve development quality, velocity,
and efficiency. Your clients require frequent releases and updates
to applications. Releasing new function frequently in a robust and
timely manner requires agility, openness, and flexibility.
Unlock value to drive business transformation. Use data to drive
business, react more quickly to market driven changes, and improve
performance to handle more transactions using the transformative
mainframe.
Minimize business risk and disruptions. Mainframe applications
are often mission critical and integrated with distributed workloads.
Reduce operational risk related to outages and identify potential
security breaches in real time to minimize business and reputation
risk.
Build new capabilities by adopting modern development
practices. Adopt new capabilities like APIs, microservices,
containers, analytics, hybrid cloud, DevOps and agile methods to
deliver to the market faster and optimize cost and interoperability
between the mainframe and cloud technology.
Reduce technical debt and empower developers. Attract
new talent with open and modern practices and development
environment.
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IBM’s unique approach
Modernization comes in many flavors. Gain skills and experience
using IBM Garage™ Methodology, which provides unique insights and
approaches to modernize your existing application estate with speed,
confidence, and reduced risk. View your development investments as
an asset, not a liability.
REFACTOR WHAT’S NECESSARY, DON’T NECESSARILY REFACTOR
Co-create. Define business opportunities and drive new insight into
existing ideas. Define the opportunity, prototype with your squad, and
co-create a solution.
Co-execute. Expand and create additional squads to build out your
DevOps team. Then continue to develop your MVP prototype into a
production ready release and launch your application. Define the next
MVP so you can continuously improve your solution based on what
you learn from your users.
Co-operate. Scale, deliver, and operate your MVP to increase market
growth. Harden your toolchains, architecture, reliability, monitoring
and testing, which all leads to continuous delivery so you can continue
to transform your culture.
Learn more
Solve application modernization challenges with the mainframe.
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/info/build-modernize/mainframe-application-
modernization
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Drive value with incremental
modernization
IBM’s approach focuses on incremental modernization of the mainframe
landscape. Achieve your end-state by developing a strategy that delivers
incremental value through a coexistence architecture aligned to business
imperatives, agility, cost, and security. Place applications and data on the
platform that fits your requirements – without the constraint of a single
cloud architecture.
UNLEASH THE POWER OF IBM Z
Expose core mainframe assets. Enable easy access to existing mainframe
applications and data by using APIs.
Modernize through DevOps. Provide a common developer experience by
integrating open source tools and a streamlined process for agility.
Develop and deploy a new cloud workload. Develop and deploy new
cloud native applications on the mainframe. Migrate and containerize
applications.
Transform core application and data assets. Incrementally transform
mainframe applications by using refactoring and modern development
approaches.
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Adopt an iterative approach
Use an iterative approach to integrate new and existing environments.
IBM factors in your industry and workload attributes to co-create a
business case and road map that meets your strategic goals.
THERE IS NO ONE-SIZE-FITS ALL WORKLOAD STRATEGY
Map the values. Define an outcome using a Garage-based approach
using design thinking, agile, DevOps practices. The practices prescribe
a new way of working using an iterative and incremental fail-fast
approach to achieve early business value.
Accelerate value and reduce risk. IBM’s coexistence approach
accelerates transformation using patterns to modernize legacy
components while using APIs and improved data access to deliver
business value faster.
Innovate to operate a future-ready business. Align IT and the
business on optimization and innovation strategies. The Garage
Methodology fosters a new IT culture through proven operating
models, processes, and best-of-breed DevOps tools that increase
developer productivity and optimize operational costs.
Effective workload placement. Ensure that your applications are
running in the right place to meet your business needs.
Learn more
Blend mainframe power into the cloud computing landscape.
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/services/2020/09/09/blending-mainframe-
power-into-the-cloud-computing-landscape/
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Meet your strategic goals using a Garage-based approach.
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Assess your portfolio
A core activity in your journey to mainframe modernization is the
IT portfolio assessment, which includes disposition, cloud affinity,
and estimation. Determine your people, process, and technical
readiness. Then build a business case and road map that includes
application modernization, migrations to cloud, rationalization and
decommissioning, target environment provisioning, security, data
optimization, storage optimization, and – ultimately – the realization of
the business objectives such as increased speed and a shift to variable
cost models for IT from platform to managed services.
BUILD A ROAD MAP TO MEET YOUR BUSINESS OBJECTIVES
Technical considerations. Deep analytics provide precise topography
of the current mainframe landscape. Automation reduces risk and
accelerates the mapping of findings to business priorities and values.
Financial considerations. Ensure your objectives and requirements are
met while reducing costs. Emphasize a TCO-driven operating model
and the selection of modernization patterns and technologies.
Operational considerations. The target solution architecture is
underpinned by a co-existence approach as well as performance,
availability and security considerations, which are supported by the
right skills and culture to improve delivery.
Learn more
Learn about IBM Services for Enterprise Cloud Strategy.
https://www.ibm.com/services/cloud/strategy
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Build your road map and plan
To understand where you need to go, you need to first assess your
current state.
YOU NEED A MODERNIZATION STRATEGY
Understand your current business state. Understand your business
objectives and modernization strategy and create a current portfolio
summary, cost baseline, and current state operating model.
Assess your current technology state. Understand your current
architecture to identify opportunity areas for modernization and develop
an operating maturity model.
Create options. Identify your target state service model, deployment
options, and readiness assessment. Create a target architecture,
workload placement, target cost estimation and operating model focus
areas.
Develop the course of action. Recommend a portfolio and application
disposition and priority. Develop a co-existence approach, financial
scenarios and simulations, and target operating model blueprint.
Create the plan. Develop your modernization strategy and deliver a
target state road map and plan.
Learn more
Increase agility with application modernization.
https://www.ibm.com/services/cloud/modernize-applications
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Optimize existing applications
and data
Define your modernization approach using Enterprise Design Thinking
principles. Be sure to consider application insights derived through
advance data science techniques.
RETIRE. RETAIN. REPLACE. REFACTOR. REWRITE.
Retire or decommission the application. When your application has
reached the end of it’s useful life, is of limited value, or offers duplicate
capabilities, retire it.
Retain the application. When your application is still of value, address
immediate problems and shift development and test to DevOps to
increase agility.
Replace the application. Meet current and future needs by migrating to
packaged software or SaaS. Migrate or modify existing data.
Refactor to a modern language (e.g. COBOL to Java®). Leverage
a larger skill base. Architect business strategic applications to
microservices to take advantage of cloud velocity and flexibility.
Containerize for portability. Redesign and normalize the current data
state model.
Rewrite and restructure for performance. Address operational and
non-functional concerns by rewriting, restructuring, or migrating
current state applications to IBM LinuxONE for hybrid cloud.
Learn more
Lab Services for IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE.
https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/services/lab-services/z-linuxone
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Create a modernization approach that takes advantage of your
existing assets.
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Expose core mainframe
assets
Leverage existing applications and system of record (SOR) and develop
new capabilities for digital transformation and other initiatives. Enable
easy access to mainframe applications and associated SOR data by using
APIs. Enhance your client experience by enabling real time interactions
in delivering both existing and new innovative composite services.
BUILD SMARTER SOLUTIONS
Learn more
Learn about the IBM Mainframe application modernization architecture.
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/architecture/architectures/application-
modernization-mainframe/
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Expose APIs. APIs can be transformative to reinvent business
processes. Expose assets as OpenAPI Specification-based APIs for
ease of consumption by cloud and mobile applications, leveraging your
existing investment without the time, cost and risk of deep changes to
core systems.
Evolve service-oriented architecture (SOA) services to APIs.
Streamline API development based on the OpenAPI Specification.
Simplify currently accessed methods that use SOA-based services and
result in runtime hops and complex development steps to enable APIs.
Extend or replace core system function with cloud-native
applications. Extend an SOR application to call an external API to
invoke functions that are supported by cloud-native applications.
Provide on-demand access to mainframe data. Use zAPI to support
agility and ease of access to mainframe data for consumption by
cloud-native applications to meet marketplace needs.
Integrate mainframe data access for analytics workloads. Provide
ease of access to mainframe data for consumption by analytics
applications to meet marketplace needs with agility.
Reduce latency and mainframe workload through data caching.
Identify the integration points that can be redirected from core SOR
data to alternative data sources with different cost and performance.
GET STARTED
Expose core mainframe
assets
Tools and accelerators
IBM has a unique set of tools and accelerators to streamline main-
frame modernization tasks including analysis, disposition, risks, target
environments, and security, availability and resiliency of workloads.
POWER TO THE DEVELOPERS!
Expose and integrate. Exploit existing assets via RESTful APIs to and
from IBM Z with IBM z/OS® Connect.
Real-time and flexible information flow between core systems and
cloud applications is crucial for digital transformation. IBM Z Digital
Integration Hub provides efficient information flow on-demand to cloud
applications with reduced complexity — resulting in faster ROI for cloud
transformation & greater market agility.
Learn more
Learn about Enterprise DevOps.
https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/capabilities/enterprise-devops
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Integrate mainframe assets to leverage your existing
investment without the time, cost, and risk of deep
changes to core systems.
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Modernize through DevOps
The current practices for the development, testing, deployment, and
monitoring of mainframe applications aren’t always integrated. Instill
modern methods and practices through the IBM Garage Methodology
to unify mainframe and cloud investments for seamless innovation and
new ways of working.
MODERNIZE USING DEVOPS TOOLS AND PRACTICES
Provide a common developer experience. Integrate standardized
processes and open source tools into your DevOps toolchain as an
accelerator to DevOps transformation.
Automate builds & tests. Early in the DevOps process use self-
provisioned test systems to support continuous delivery and integration.
Facilitate rapid feedback. Deliver continuously and actively seek
feedback from your stakeholders.
Analyze mainframe applications. Use cognitive technologies to analyze
mainframe applications, discover dependencies, understand the impact
of changes, and plan for optimal performance.
Monitor and manage a solution. Use consistent and integrated
processes to manage and monitor development and testing on
mainframe and cloud systems.
Learn more
Power transformation with IBM Garage.
https://www.ibm.com/garage
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Deliver continuously
IBM Garage Methodology combined with a coexistence approach
enables you to iteratively deliver business value while modernizing
legacy components, which results in a more effective and efficient
end state for your organization.
ITERATIVELY MOVE TOWARD YOUR TARGET STATE
Modernize iteratively. Break large changes into smaller, well-
bounded parts to move faster with less risk.
Map data and interfaces. Provide rules for transforming data
between current state application and modernized application.
Use a squad model to reach your target state. Integrate squads with
multi-platform skills to scale support that provides faster time to
market.
Integrate your operational model. Identify and setup integrated
operations for monitoring end-to-end visibility of application
workloads.
Create a co-existence integration model. Develop transformation
rules for current state data model mapped to a modernized data
model to support your incremental data modernization roll out.
GET STARTED
Modernize through DevOps
Tools and accelerators
IBM has a unique set of tools and accelerators to streamline main- frame
modernization tasks including analysis, disposition, risks, target environ-
ments, and security, availability and resiliency of workloads.
POWER TO THE DEVELOPERS!
See interdependencies. Quickly analyze IBM Z applications to
understand code, data structure, complexities, risks and impact of
change using IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence.
Increase velocity. Orchestrate and analyze DevOps maturity to optimize
the value stream with IBM UrbanCode® Velocity.
Plan and collaborate. IBM Engineering Workflow Management helps you
to manage plans, track tasks and link requirements to deliverables.
Build once, deploy anywhere. Develop and deploy cloud native apps
faster with Red Hat® OpenShift® and IBM Cloud Paks® on Z.
Develop hybrid apps. Build and test IBM z/OS application components
in a containerized virtual environment optimized for Red Hat OpenShift
with IBM Wazi for Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces.
Deliver at speed. Get development solutions with IDz and problem
determination tools in the Application Delivery Foundation for IBM z/OS.
Learn more
Read about Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Z and LinuxONE.
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/systems/red-hat-openshift-now-available-ibm-z-
linuxone/
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Build as you like. Develop z/OS apps with programming languages such as
COBOL, PL/I, HLASM, Java and C/C++ using Developer for z/OS and IBM
Wazi Developer for Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces.
Develop and test faster. Develop, integrate and automate apps and data
using IBM Virtual Test Platform.
Develop and test mainframe applications
on x86 with Z Development and Test (zD&T).
Freedom of SCM choice. Dependency Based Build provides a framework
and better tracking for automated z/OS builds.
Shift-left testing. Run application integration testing earlier to transform
software development lifecycles using IBM Virtual Test Platform.
Automate testing and deployment. Use Open Unit Test for batch and IBM
CICS® programs. Leverage rapid feedback, continuous delivery and audit
trails via UrbanCode Deploy.
Simplify complex releases. Plan, execute and track a release through all
stages of the delivery lifecycle with UrbanCode Release.
Provision to multicloud. Integrate with cloud development platforms
using z/OS Container Extensions (zCX) and Red Hat Ansible® Certified
Content.
COBOL performance. Automatic Binary Optimizer improves COBOL
performance without recompiling, code migration or tuning.
Service management. Empower your operations team with an easy-to-
learn and highly customized IBM OMEGAMON® tool set. Track transactions
and monitor resources from z/OS subsystems to APM using Application
Performance Management Connect.
Protect data by policy. IBM Data Privacy Passports manage and revoke
access to data shared within your enterprise, even after it leaves your
system, minimizing risk.
Securely build, deploy and manage apps. IBM Hyper Protect Virtual
Servers protect mission-critical apps in hybrid cloud environments.
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Develop and deploy a new
cloud workload
Develop and deploy new cloud-native applications on IBM Z and
LinuxONE to extend applications with hybrid cloud solutions and with
the highest quality of services that the platform provides, such as
security, reliability, scalability, and performance. The business use-case
scenarios span from improving the customer experience for a service to
developing a new business process to gain new insights.
UNLEASH THE POWER OF Z WITH HYBRID CLOUD
Learn more
Keep up with the latest Z news.
https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/news
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Develop and deploy cloud-native applications. Support agility in
developing and deploying secure and scalable microservices applications
at a lower cost. Address data sensitivity requirements and meet the
demands of applications that use services in multiple on-premises
secure containers and on multiple clouds.
Enhance the customer experience. Develop new customer-facing
interaction logic to invoke applications in real time.
Integrate a solution. Comprised of a mainframe-based SOR and public
or private cloud components.
Move and containerize applications that are supported by higher
quality of services. Deploy applications in the cloud without rewriting by
containerizing them. Deploying containerized applications in mainframe
Linux® or z/OS Container Extensions provides a platform with higher
quality of services.
Develop new automated business processes. Build automation that
relies on the batch processing of mainframe-based applications. Use
mainframe-based business functions by invoking APIs from new cloud-
based business processes.
Extend business logic based on new analytics functions. Developing
analytics applications requires access to training data that is generated
by SOR for developing learning models.
Develop blockchain-based applications. Develop and deploy new
applications, such as blockchain-based solutions, as cloud-native
applications.
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Develop and deploy new
workloads
Tools and accelerators
IBM has a unique set of tools and accelerators to streamline main-
frame modernization tasks including analysis, disposition, risks, target
environments, and security, availability and resiliency of workloads.
POWER TO THE DEVELOPERS!
Learn more
Learn about IBM Mainframe solutions.
https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/servers/mainframes
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See interdependencies. Quickly analyze IBM Z applications to understand
code, data structure analysis, interdependencies and complexities, risks
and the impact of change using IBM Application Discovery and Delivery
Intelligence (ADDI).
Build once, deploy anywhere. Develop and deploy cloud native apps
faster with Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Cloud Paks on Z.
Develop hybrid apps. Build and test IBM z/OS application components in
a containerized virtual environment optimized for Red Hat OpenShift with
IBM Wazi for Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces.
Build as you like. Develop z/OS apps with programming languages such as
COBOL, PL/I, HLASM, Java and C/C++ using Developer for z/OS and IBM
Wazi Developer for Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces.
Automate cloud services. Simplify configuration and resource access and
streamline operations with Red Hat Ansible Certified Content.
Expose and integrate. Exploit existing assets via RESTful APIs to and from
IBM Z with z/OS Connect.
Integrate cloud services. Securely access z/OS services with platforms
such as OpenShift via IBM z/OS Cloud Broker.
Secure your apps. Protect mission-critical apps in hybrid multicloud
environments with IBM Hyper Protect Virtual Servers and z/OS Container
Extensions (zCX).
Shift-left testing. Run application integration testing earlier to transform
software development lifecycles using IBM Virtual Test Platform.
Develop and test faster. Develop, integrate and automate apps and data
using IBM Virtual Test Platform.
Develop and test mainframe applications
on x86 with Z Development and Test (zD&T).
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Transform core application
and data assets
Incrementally transform mainframe applications through refactoring
and a modern development approach. Adopt new DevOps processes
and modern languages to engage new developers.
TRANSFORM ONLY WHERE YOU HAVE TO
Learn more
See Application Delivery Foundation for z/OS.
https://www.ibm.com/products/app-delivery-foundation-for-zos
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Extract and externalize business rules and policies that are
embedded in mainframe assets. Enable developers to quickly
change business rules, push to production, and ensure compliance.
Externalize embedded business rules in your mainframe
applications. Harvest rules and rewrite them in Java or a business
rules engine.
Develop mixed-language application components to extend
or develop new SOR data management. Mainframe teams
traditionally have legacy technology skills – COBOL, IMS, VSAM etc.
- posing challenges to attracting new talent. Support development
in new languages that complement legacy skills and improve agility
to extend or develop new applications that manage SOR data.
Develop a modernized data domain-based model. Align the data
domain model with the bounded context and with the microservices
model for the modernized application solution.
Deploy an integration layer during the incremental transformation
effort. Create a coexistence layer that manages the conversion of
data from the legacy application code.
Transform mainframe assets to address anticipated or current
skill shortages in maintaining core business applications.
Alleviate the impact of losing institutional memory of how things
work and of losing technical skills in languages and platforms.
Automate the conversion of COBOL code to Java while you keep
data stores unchanged.
GET STARTED
Transform core application
and data assets
Tools and accelerators
IBM has a unique set of tools and accelerators to streamline main-
frame modernization tasks including analysis, disposition, risks, target
environments, and security, availability and resiliency of workloads.
POWER TO THE DEVELOPERS!
Learn more
Accelerate innovation with AI for application modernization.
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/journey-to-ai/2020/05/accelerate-innovation-
with-ai-for-app-modernization/
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See interdependencies. Quickly analyze IBM Z applications to
understand code, data structure analysis, interdependencies and
complexities, risks and the impact of change using IBM Application
Discovery and Delivery Intelligence (ADDI).
Migrate from older IBM COBOL compilers to IBM Enterprise
COBOL for z/OS 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, or 6.3. Use IBM Enterprise COBOL
Migration Assistant wizard to guide you though the process.
Improve the performance of already-compiled COBOL program
modules. IBM® Automatic Binary Optimizer for z/OS uses advanced
optimization technology to generate code targeting the latest IBM Z
mainframes to improve application performance.
Get smooth migrations from CA Easytrieve programs. IBM
Migration Utility for z/OS migrates CA Easytrieve Classic and Plus
applications to IBM COBOL, protecting your Easytrieve investments.
Measure, report and maximize performance of systems and
applications. IBM Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS
can solve application and database performance issues by non-
intrusively sampling reporting on how your mainframe applications
are consuming resources, you are able to analyze the data to
improve performance and provide an optimal customer experience.
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Cloud enabled approach
IBM’s approach to managing a modern mainframe landscape embeds
resilience engineering principles and an automation-first mindset
which are underpinned by the IBM Garage Methodology to assure
value realization from cloud applications.
POWER TO THE DEVELOPERS!
Learn more
IBM Z Development and Test Environment.
https://www.ibm.com/products/z-development-test-environment
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Extreme automation. Enable a low touch automated solution to
detect anomalies and unexpected behavior. Develop a standard
operating procedure for an automated solution.
NextGen DevSecOps. Provide a digital worker interface for
conversation-driven development. Enable low-touch operations tools
for AIOps.
Continuous testing. Automate testing as part of the DevSecOps
pipeline for continuous resilience testing. Enable environment
readiness in terms of configuration and security before deployment.
Mainframe and multicloud service integration. Integrate seamlessly
between infrastructure, containers, and applicable business
processes. Externalize the pipeline and make it configurable.
Full-stack cloud squads. Expanded the full stack squad to include
mainframe and cloud skills.
Continuous improvement. Proactively correct your course, discover
patterns, and embrace opportunities. Produce early warnings for
issues with automated resolution.
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Reduce costs with managed
services
Assess whether a pay-per-use consumption and delivery model that
enables delivery of configurable computing Resources (MIPS, storage
GBs) is right for you.
ACCELERATE YOUR JOURNEY
Support new business needs. Enable improved flexibility, scalability
and access to current technology.
Control costs of hardware, software, facilities and infrastructure
management. Address the loss of mainframe technical skills due to a
retiring workforce.
Move to a hybrid cloud delivery model. Gain a more agile and scalable
infrastructure that supports current mission-critical workloads and
new mobile, analytics, and social-driven workloads.
Support high availability and security. Use a robust service design
and mature delivery capabilities.
Rationalize your software portfolio. Manage costs with a more
predictable consumption-based pricing model with monthly billing.
Remove the challenge and cost of hiring and retaining talent. Allow
your staff to focus on other areas of innovation.
Learn more
Learn about managed infrastructure as a service.
https://www.ibm.com/services/cloud/managed-infrastructure-as-a-service
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Hosted in purpose-built IBM data centers, IBM uses industry-leading
virtualization technology and robust security features to deliver a
security-rich, highly IaaS platform that is continually refreshed with the
latest hardware and software to support innovation and reduced costs.
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IBM Garage: Accelerate your
journey
IBM leverages the Z platform to accelerate your transformation to an
agile organization with open, portable applications and toolchains that
seamlessly integrate with your multicloud environment.
IBM instills modern methods and practices in your organization
through our IBM Garage Methodology to unify mainframe and cloud
investments for seamless innovation and new ways of working and help
you acquire new skills for sustained growth and success.
UNTANGLE COMPLEXITY TO DELIVER VALUE
Modernize in place. Position mainframe for cloud as the core
modernization strategy with cloud-native development in IBM Z.
Expose and refactor applications and leverage IBM Z private and public
cloud.
Modernize the mainframe on cloud. Modernize in place on IBM Z by
enabling cloud-native features. Optimize legacy applications using
latest IBM Z processing features.
Modernize using a hybrid cloud approach. Drive hybrid cloud
modernization across mainframe and on-premises and public cloud
by modernizing applications in place and by moving select workloads
off the mainframe. Enable cross-platform system management and
application orchestration.
Learn more
Power digital transformation with IBM Garage.
https://www.ibm.com/garage
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