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Overview

Get AI-ready on a proven platform

Minimize the risk associated with mainframe skill shortages and help your team thrive in the cloud.
Eliminate capital expenditure-based (or CapEx-based) renewal cycles for hardware and software. With a scalable operating expenses (OpEx) model, pay only for what you use and scale resources up or down to meet seasonal demands.
Respond fast to shifting needs with AI capabilities from Microsoft. Build first-mover advantage with agile cloud runtimes and development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) delivery practices. Combine data assets from legacy silos for immediate AI-powered insight.
Combine data assets from legacy silos for immediate AI-powered insight. Customize your modernization approach with a wide array of runtimes, databases, AI models, and storage services. Select from a partner ecosystem built around your needs versus your partner’s IP.

Products

Foster innovation

Introduce new functionality that scales to match business needs.

Azure AI Foundry

Enhance applications with AI and analyze high-complexity legacy apps with agents at scale.

GitHub Copilot

Accelerate agility and deepen understanding with your AI pair programmer.

Azure DevOps

Deliver innovation faster with simple, reliable tools for continuous delivery.

Microsoft Fabric

Unify your teams and data to accelerate AI innovation with a complete data platform.

Databases on Azure

Modernize apps on intelligent cloud databases.

Azure Security

Protect critical data, apps, and infrastructure with multilayered Microsoft security services.

CUSTOMER STORIES

Trusted by leaders and innovators

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"Like any other insurance company, we’ve optimized the use of our existing infrastructure assets for a long time. With Microsoft and Azure, we’ve now moved to an OpEx model, reducing technical debt and are modernizing. Our focus can now shift to innovation.”

Tariq Surty, IT and Transformation Director – Pensions, Legal & General

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More releases by year 3

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"This migration is a testament to our innovative spirit, marking several firsts: mainframe to AKS, containerization of mainframe front end...and [resource access control facility (RACF)] rules to Microsoft Entra ID conversion….”

Ravisankar Nair, Digital Transformation Lead, John Hancock

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Data transformation required

90%

Reduction in total cost of ownership

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"Transforming a legacy mainframe archive into a modern cloud solution is not just a technical upgrade; it's an opportunity to innovate, streamline, and future-proof your environment. Embrace the challenge, and you'll unlock new efficiencies and capabilities that were once unimaginable.”

Daniel Tanner, Stream Technical Lead, Client Document and Records Management (CDRM), UBS

60%

Reduction in total cost of ownership

Resources

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Get a Mainframe migration overview

Learn how to get the value and agility of a modern, cloud-based platform without the costs of a mainframe environment.

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Rehost a general mainframe on Azure

Take the fastest path to Azure by rehosting legacy applications on a Windows or Linux platform.

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Use AI agents for COBOL migration and modernization

Learn how AI agents modernize COBOL by modular migration to Java with Semantic Kernel orchestration.

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Modernize with Microsoft

Build value and agility on a modern, cloud-based platform without the costs of a mainframe environment.

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