A recent survey of Fortune 500 companies revealed that 75% of respondents are concerned about having access to the IT talent capable of properly maintaining legacy systems. To make matters worse, 49% indicate they have seen a rapid decline in m

Episode #4: Key considerations when migrating mainframe workloads to Microsoft Azure

Jun 30th, 2023 35m 23s

Join modernization experts from Advanced and Microsoft Azure for a podcast discussion focused on the state of legacy modernization, cloud migration, best practice and emerging trends.If you want to reach out to us, you can email Rob here or dro

Episode #5: Prison Break: Finding freedom from CA Gen lock in

Jun 30th, 2023 29m 43s

CA Gen applications are typically a considerable size and accumulate complex business logic. To complicate matters, the COBOL it generates is impossible to maintain natively, meaning many organizations feel trapped into retaining CA Gen just to

Episode #3: The Findings: 2022 Mainframe Modernization Business Barometer Report

Jun 14th, 2023 58m 54s

We recently surveyed hundreds of IT leaders around the globe about their mainframe modernization strategies. Then, we published our Mainframe Modernization Business Barometer Report which summarized our findings. Shockingly, 85% of participants

Episode #2: Solving application modernization challenges with the mainframe

May 31st, 2023 31m 1s

The pace of legacy modernization is increasing at a staggering rate. According to a recent survey, 90% of IT leaders report they modernized mainframe workloads within the past three years, while only 11% undertook modernization initiatives befo

Episode #1: Steve Steuart - AWS Head of Mainframe Migration and Modernization

Jun 21st, 2021 31m 7s

In our first episode, Rob chats with Steve Steuart from AWS about the Mainframe Migration Competency Program, baldness, and how AWS have been investing in what we do here at Advanced.A transcript of this episode is available here.If you want to