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5 GOOD REASONS

TO MOVE OFF MAINFRAME

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Why move off mainframe? 1. 1. Choice

Most mainframe workloads still use proprietary (mainframe specific) technologies

that are not available on open systems limiting people’s ability to move this

workload to more appropriate platforms. Moving off is therefore not something

that can be easily done but requires careful planning, design, migration and

testing. Open systems can create a significantly better vendor independence to

the degree that it allows you to choose the best underlying platform for your

applications as opposed to be restricted by any vendor. Why is it that, once the

competition enters, mainframe prices always go down?

Ask yourself: what business value can I get from removing the technology lock-in?

2. Risk

In most cases, the mainframe specific technologies in use were created between

20 to 40 years ago (technologies like PL1, JCL, REXX, IMS, CICS, VSAM, DMSII,

TIP, and so on). It is increasingly hard to find skills at a reasonable/workable

labour rate and efficiency in order to keep these systems running. Universities

and other schools focus most of their education on newer technologies creating a

flexible workforce at attractive labour rates. Moving to open systems and industry

standards limits exposure to older and nowadays more exotic technologies that

have significant risks attached

Ask yourself: what is my skills dependency and when will it become an issue?

3. Cost

Industry standards and commoditization are the biggest drivers for cost. These

days, one can buy x86 based systems that have 16 CPUs and 12 cores per CPU

providing performance equal to big mainframes at a fraction of the cost

(sometimes close to an order of magnitude). Standardisation allows these

systems to incorporate commodity components as opposed to specialised (CPU,

memory, disk, IO) components whilst still providing very similar quality of

service.

Ask yourself: how much can I save by adopting open technologies?

4. Innovation

Competition and choice are the primary drivers for innovation and progress.

Successful competition either requires cost efficiency or differentiation driving

business value worth incremental price. Without competition and choice,

innovation is limited to what your current vendor wants to afford. The IT

Industry’s R&D budget associated with open systems is at least one order of

magnitude higher than in mainframes. Even if half of that would go wasted,

innovation is still 5x higher.

Ask yourself: where is my current technology stack inhibiting my innovation?

5. Limited Modernization

As most of the IT industry’s R&D budgets go into open systems, this is where

investments are made to come up with new, innovative deployment models such

as cloud and where these investments are done by a multitude of companies

creating choice and competition. More than any other platform, open systems

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allow you to choose the ideal deployment strategy whether IAAS, SAAS, PAAS,

public, private or hybrid cloud deployments or a combination of all.

Ask yourself: is my current deployment model optimal or should (can) I consider other

options?

Most mainframe users are currently investigating their options given the aging workforce,

high mainframe costs, lack of innovation and flexibility and technology risks.

Asysco is ranked by Gartner in the systems/code transformation segment whereby

mainframe specific technologies are automatically transformed to open systems

technologies, in the case of Asysco the Microsoft technology stack. With over 3 decades of

experience in mainframe migrations, Asysco completely eliminates every mainframe

dependency by migrating you straight into open systems technologies. In addition to the

mainframe code and data, the entire operating environment is migrated as well: all

programming languages, the entire batch, databases, security, the operating framework,

everything so that you will end up with a completely operational migrated environment

without having to spend time recreating the mainframe quality of service in open systems.

All of that is taken care of by the AMT migration framework. The large number of migrations

enables us to guarantee same or better quality of service for your target system. The

adoption of Microsoft technologies with the Microsoft cloud architecture offers you freedom

of implementation choosing any deployment architecture that suits your business needs.

Eliminate the lock-in, choose freedom, choose Asysco!

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Who are we?

A Dutch company that has successfully delivered over 50 mainframe

migrations to customers in all industry verticals worldwide since the company

was founded in 1979.

Having our focus on the conversion of mainframes (entire systems consisting of

applications, databases and the complete runtime environment) to a

Windows(/Unix) based environment.

Over 120 million lines of code converted

Having developed our unique Asysco Migration Technology (AMT) that does

full automatic conversions from mainframe to open systems.

Differentiating us by the highly automated transformation technology in

combination with a thorough turn-key based methodology resulting in a

100% success track record.

Asysco, Lose nothing, Gain everything!