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Mainframe and midrange migration

Reduce costs by bringing your midrange and mainframe applications to an agile cloud platform. Ensure success with a reliable and scalable mainframe migration strategy.

Why migrate your mainframe and midrange workloads to Azure

Modernize with ease and without abandoning the applications you rely on by running your midrange and mainframe applications on Azure. Rapidly address your company's needs at scale using mainframe and midrange migration tools and services without sacrificing functionality, security, or compliance.

Reduce costs and free up your budget to support digital transformation by migrating mainframe and midrange applications from expensive legacy systems to Azure. Savings include hardware, software, and management of these platforms. Save even more when implementing business continuity, disaster recovery, or scalable solutions. With Azure, you pay only for consumption, not for the systems required to support these requirements.

As legacy programmers retire, it's becoming difficult to find talent who know how to use legacy development tools to maintain legacy applications. By moving mainframe and midrange applications to the cloud and using modern development tools such as Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio, you expand the talent pool to new developers who have experience with these tools. These new developers can collaborate with legacy developers to continue evolving legacy applications.

Updating and deploying legacy applications can be accelerated when moving from a legacy waterfall development process to a modern DevOps environment. Instead of waiting six months or more to deploy a major update, incremental, daily updates are deployed to support business requirements.

Legacy applications are limited to running on legacy platforms in the datacenter. Use migration tools and services to move these legacy applications to an x86 platform and take advantage of the cloud for running your mission-critical workloads.