Taking The Road To Modernizing Today's Mainframe

With the rising popularity of cloud-based solutions over the last decade, a growing misconception in the professional world is that mainframe technology is becoming obsolete. This couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, the results of a recent Rocket survey of over 500 U.S. IT professionals found businesses today still rely heavily on the mainframe over cloud-based or distributed technologies to power their IT infrastructures—including 67 of the Fortune 100.

Despite the allure surrounding digital solutions, a recent IBM study uncovered that 82% of executives agree their business case still supports mainframe-based applications. This is partly due to the increase in disruptive events taking place throughout the world—the Covid-19 pandemic, a weakened global supply chain, cybersecurity breaches and increased regulations across the board—leading companies to...Continue reading