Enterprises hang onto mainframes as migration strategies shift

A new report suggests that faced with mounting competition and economic uncertainty, 92 percent of global enterprises are changing course to retain mainframes as part of pragmatic hybrid strategies, rather than pursuing wholesale cloud shifts. The latest Mainframe Modernization Business Barometer Report from Advanced, based on a survey of 400 IT leaders worldwide, reveals hybrid infrastructure strategies taking hold to balance workloads across cloud and mainframe. In fact, only six percent expect outright mainframe replacement anytime soon. 'The pressure to migrate all data to the cloud has faded,' says Tim Jones, managing director of application modernization at Advanced. 'With half… [Continue Reading]