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IBM’s mainframe business continues to be under pressure from cloud-based competitors, and perhaps even its own Power server. But analyst opinions vary about its long-term fate.

While IBM holds tight to its loyal base of mainframe users, there are signs that the company is placing less long-term strategic emphasis on the venerable system in favor of other distributed hardware and software platforms.

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LzLabs has announced that leading Swiss telecommunications and IT service provider, Swisscom, has migrated its entire mainframe workload to the cloud, running on LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe. With this migration, Swisscom has achieved a landmark in enterprise IT, by moving its business critical legacy mainframe applications and data to its own enterprise cloud infrastructure, without any data reformatting or recompilation of its application program code.

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The insurance industry is ripe with innovation. Tempted by the fruits of technological change, insurers seek greater opportunities for data collection, smart, adaptive policies and fraud detection that can lead to better risk identification and mitigation measures.

For traditional players, existing IT infrastructure stands firmly in the way of this drive. Legacy mainframe systems, commonly buried deep in the bedrock of enterprise IT, are at the heart of their challenge.

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An old conundrum of the IT industry is that the pace of change can be slow for an area that is so often described as fast-moving and dynamic. Nowhere is this clearer than in the field of IBM mainframe computing where a model dating back to the middle of the 20th century has persisted despite sky-high costs, mounting administration concerns and a crippling lack of flexibility. But now the mainframe’s tenacious grip on corporate IT may, finally, be weakening.

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Der schweizerische Telekommunikations- und IT-Dienstleister Swisscom hat seine gesamten Mainframe-Workloads in die Cloud migriert. Die Systeme laufen nun auf dem LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe (SDM). Durch die Migration befinden sich die geschäftskritischen Mainframe-Anwendungen und -Daten der Swisscom jetzt in einer eigenen Enterprise-Cloud-Infrastruktur.

Die vollständige Abkehr von seinem Legacy-Mainframe verhalf Swisscom zu einer Reduktion von rund 60 Prozent der herkömmlichen Mainframe Betriebskosten. Inzwischen hat der eidgenössische Telekommunikationsanbieter seinen alten Mainframe vollständig abgeschaltet. Die migrierten geschäftskritischen Anwendungen – 2.500 MIPS (Millionen Instruktionen pro Sekunde) – umfassen Rechnungsstellung, geografische und Adressinformationen sowie die Verwaltung des kompletten Festnetzes des Providers. Der gesamte Workload läuft nun auf der privaten Cloud-Plattform von Swisscom.

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Swisscom migriert seine gesamten Mainframe-Workloads auf einen Software Defined Mainframe in der Cloud.

Der schweizerische Telekommunikations- und IT-Dienstleister Swisscom hat seine gesamten Mainframe-Workloads in die Cloud migriert. Diese Workloads laufen ab sofort auf dem LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe (SDM). Das haben LzLabs und Swisscom bekannt gegeben. Für Swisscom bedeutet die Migration einen Meilenstein in der Unternehmens-IT: Die geschäftskritischen Legacy-Mainframe-Anwendungen und -Daten befinden sich nun in der eigenen Enterprise-Cloud-Infrastruktur – ohne dass zuvor Daten neu formatiert oder Programmcode neu kompiliert werden mussten.

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The move relies on ‘Software Defined Mainframe’ technology which marries an open source container system to support traditional business functions and integration with modern services like IoT.

A major European telecoms provider has switched off its mainframe and put its trust for running business critical applications into a software-defined alternative in the cloud instead.

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Most mainframe DevOps tools make open source app delivery pipelines speak mainframe’s language, but LzLabs brings mainframe apps to a Linux-based platform without recompilation.

Mainframe DevOps is the thorniest aspect for enterprises that seek to modernize their legacy apps and improve their software development agility, but emerging tools now help usher mainframe apps into the cloud-native fold.

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L’opérateur télécom helvète Swisscom a choisi Software Defined Mainframe de Lzlabs pour virtualiser ses mainframes IBM dans un cloud Linux/VMware en économisant 60 % de ses coûts récurrents. Maintenant que ses applications internes critiques sont migrées, l’opérateur s’apprête à proposer un Mainframe-as-a-service sur les mêmes bases techniques.

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C’est une mauvaise nouvelle pour IBM. Jusqu’à présent l’abandon des mainframes en faveur du cloud concernait surtout les PME. Or aujourd’hui de plus grands groupes se lancent dans l’aventure. C’est le cas de l’opérateur et fournisseur de services IT Swisscom. Emboîtant le pas au groupe Edmond de Rothschild, ce dernier s’est appuyé sur l’éditeur zurichois LzLabs pour migrer l’intégralité de ses charges de travail critiques hébergées sur un ordinateur central IBM, vers un mainframe défini par logiciel dans le cloud (SDM).

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