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The Challenge

Cloud Data Management for IBM zSeries Mainframe

IBM zSeries mainframes have helped support businesses for several decades now, powering mission-critical workflows across industries. However, with operational costs rising as talent becomes scarce, legacy systems like these become a hurdle to digital transformation and data innovation.

Organizations still running IBM zSeries mainframes face high infrastructure and licensing costs, poor integration with cloud-based systems, an aging COBOL and mainframe-skilled workforce, and compliance risks that come with inaccessible legacy data.

The Solution

Decommission Mainframes on the Solix Common Data Platform

Solix assists businesses in decommissioning and modernizing their IBM zSeries mainframes through a structured approach that includes rehosting, re-platforming, re-architecting, rebuilding, and replacing legacy infrastructure. Businesses can eliminate redundant and legacy applications running on mainframe systems with Solix Application Retirement onto the Solix Common Data Platform. By doing this, they can minimize the overall data and application footprint while reducing maintenance costs, enhancing data access, reducing non-compliance exposure, and strengthening overall governance and security frameworks.

Cloud Data Management for IBM zSeries Mainframe
Mainframe Modernization

How Does SOLIXCloud Empower IBM zSeries Mainframe Data Management

SOLIXCloud streamlines IBM zSeries mainframe data management by archiving legacy data, optimizing performance, reducing costs, and ensuring compliance with real-time access

  • Accelerate Mainframe Modernization

    Before embarking on a mainframe modernization or cloud transformation initiative, optimizing your environment first is crucial. SOLIXCloud Enterprise Archiving can help. With SOLIXCloud, you can ensure that only pertinent and active data is migrated, resulting in a streamlined and cost-effective migration and validation process. By eliminating legacy data, you not only improve the efficiency of your migration but also reduce the total cost of ownership for your mainframe applications in the cloud. All of this while maintaining active access to the archived data for business and compliance reporting.

  • Mainframe Application Retirement / Decommissioning

    As Mainframes could consist of multiple active and inactive applications, the decommissioning process should be non-disruptive and phased. With SOLIXCloud's application retirement for Mainframe, organizations can quickly deploy a mainframe decommissioning strategy that is practical, compliant, and efficient. This approach helps reduce mainframe licensing and maintenance costs, free up valuable IT infrastructure, leverage cloud computing, and eliminate security and compliance risks associated with legacy mainframe applications. Even post-decommissioning of the applications, authorized users will have secure and real-time access to the archived data for business, compliance, and analytical purposes, enabling a high ROI.

  • Active Mainframe Archiving

    SOLIXCloud's Active Database Archiving for Mainframe facilitates the identification and archiving of infrequently used data from production mainframe systems to cost-effective cloud storage on an ongoing basis. This helps optimize the mainframe system for performance and future data growth, reduce complexity, reduce maintenance and backup costs, and meet regulatory and legal requirements for data minimization, data retention, data privacy, and legal holds. Leveraging SOLIXCloud also ensures continued real-time access to archived data for business and compliance reporting.

Customers

The World's Leading Companies Choose Solix

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Benefits

Benefits of IBM zSeries Mainframe Modernization with Solix

Accelerate modernization, reduce costs, optimize performance, ensure compliance, enhance security, streamline migration, and enable real-time access to archived mainframe data with Solix

Information Lifecycle Management

Lower Migration Costs and Total Costs of Ownership

Archiving legacy data on the Solix Common Data Platform before migration reduces your data footprint, saving time, effort, and costs. Post-migration, managing archives on the platform allows for policy-driven retention, governance frameworks, and access controls, facilitating on-demand data retrieval.

Faster Migration

Optimize and Accelerate Migration

Mainframe migrations are inherently complex, whether through rehosting, refactoring, or re-platforming. By reducing the volume of data to migrate and validate, Solix streamlines the process, allowing you to accelerate timelines, minimize risks, and simplify testing and cutover phases.

Data Governance

Strengthen Compliance and Data Governance

Solix Enterprise Archiving, supported by the Solix Common Data Platform, offers a centralized archive that is fully secure, governed, and compliant from end to end. Legacy mainframe data can be managed according to regulatory requirements, including retention mandates, legal holds, and auditability, enabling you to maintain control throughout the modernization process.

Access To Historical Data

Continued Access To Your Historical Data

Even after application retirement, Solix provides continued access to archived mainframe data through intuitive search, reporting, and query features. Users can retrieve legacy data as needed for compliance, audits, or business analysis without keeping the mainframe operational.

Benefits of IBM zSeries Mainframe Modernization with Solix
Benefits of IBM zSeries Mainframe Modernization with Solix
Benefits of IBM zSeries Mainframe Modernization with Solix
Benefits of IBM zSeries Mainframe Modernization with Solix
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Why Us

Why SOLIXCloud

SOLIXCloud offers scalable, secure, and compliant cloud archiving that optimizes costs, boosts performance, and ensures data governance.

  • Common Data Platform

    Unified archive for structured, unstructured and semi-structured data.

  • Reduce Risk

    Policy driven archiving and data retention

  • Continuous Support

    Solix offers world-class support from experts 24/7 to meet your data management needs.

  • On-demand AI

    Elastic offering to scale storage and support with your project

  • Fully Managed

    Software as-a-service offering

  • Secure & Compliant

    Comprehensive Data Governance

  • Free to Start

    Pay-as-you-go monthly subscription so you only purchase what you need.

  • End-User Friendly

    End-user data access with flexibility for format options.