By Michael Siemasz
Modernizing On-platform
We agree with Intellyx President and notable Agile digital transformation analyst Jason Bloomberg that modernization should occur on-platform. A guest post from Jason earlier this year really backed up what we believe is the best option for organizations, counter to the technology-/cloud-first strategy many organizations think they have to adopt: that you should leverage the mainframe in tandem with other modern technology like the cloud in a strategy we call Two-platform IT—watch this video to learn more about it.
Often, companies that attempt to migrate off the mainframe are technology-obsessed and assume ditching their “legacy” systems and going all-in with cloud will solve their problems. This only leads to more problems. When you look into it, it’s easy to get a sense of just how dangerous it is to try and swim against the current of the mainframe rather than with it.
Read the entire article at https://compuware.com/three-mainframe-trends-2018/