Astadia Publishes Mainframe to Cloud Reference Architecture Series

‍The guides leverage Astadia’s 25+ years of expertise in partnering with organizations to reduce costs, risks and timeframes when migrating their IBM mainframe applications to cloud platforms.

Boston, MA.--(BUSINESS WIRE)—Astadia is pleased to announce the release of a new series of Mainframe-to-Cloud reference architecture guides. The documents cover how to refactor IBM mainframes applications to Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The documents offer a deep dive into the migration process to all major target cloud platforms using Astadia’s FastTrack software platform and methodology.  

As enterprises and government agencies are under pressure to modernize their IT environments and make them more agile, scalable and cost-efficient, refactoring mainframe applications in the cloud is recognized as one of the most efficient and fastest modernization solutions. By making the guides available, Astadia equips business and IT professionals with a step-by-step approach on how to refactor mission-critical business systems and benefit from highly automated code transformation, data conversion and testing to reduce costs, risks and timeframes in mainframe migration projects.

“Understanding all aspects of legacy application modernization and having access to the most performant solutions is crucial to accelerating digital transformation,” said Scott G. Silk, Chairman and CEO. “More and more organizations are choosing to refactor mainframe applications to the cloud. These guides are meant to assist their teams in transitioning fast and safely by benefiting from Astadia’s expertise, software tools, partnerships, and technology coverage in mainframe-to-cloud migrations,” said Mr. Silk.

The new guides are part of Astadia’s free Mainframe-to-Cloud Modernization series, an ample collection of guides covering various mainframe migration options, technologies, and cloud platforms. The series covers IBM (NYSE:IBM) Mainframes.  

In addition to the reference architecture diagrams, these comprehensive guides include various techniques and methodologies that may be used in forming a complete and effective Legacy Modernization plan. The documents analyze the important role of the mainframe platform, and how to preserve previous investments in information systems when transitioning to the cloud.

In each of the IBM Mainframe Reference Architecture white papers, readers will explore:

• Benefits, approaches, and challenges of mainframe modernization
• Understanding typical IBM Mainframe Architecture
• An overview of Azure / AWS/Google Cloud / Oracle Cloud
• Detailed diagrams of IBM mappings to Azure / AWS / Google Cloud / Oracle Cloud
• How to ensure project success in mainframe modernization

The guides are available for download here:

• IBM Mainframe to Azure Reference Architecture (NASDAQ: MSFT)
• IBM Mainframe to AWS Reference Architecture (NASDAQ:AMZN)
• IBM Mainframe to Google Cloud Reference Architecture (NASDAQ:GOOGL)
• IBM Mainframe to Oracle Cloud Reference Architecture (NYSE:ORCL)

To access more mainframe modernization resources, visit the Astadia learning center on www.astadia.com.

About Astadia

Astadia is the market-leading software-enabled mainframe migration company, specializing in moving IBM and Unisys mainframe applications and databases to distributed and cloud platforms in unprecedented timeframes. With more than 30 years of experience, and over 300 mainframe migrations completed, enterprises and government organizations choose Astadia for its deep expertise, range of technologies, and the ability to automate complex migrations, as well as testing at scale. Learn more on www.astadia.com.

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