Challenges This Addresses
- Mainframe environments supporting mission-critical business processes that cannot tolerate disruption
- Decades of accumulated mainframe data in proprietary formats that are difficult to migrate
- Mainframe-specific skills becoming scarce as experienced staff retire, making long-term maintenance risky
What You’ll Learn
- Mainframe modernization approaches: rehost, refactor, re-platform, and retire — when to use each
- Data migration from IBM z/Series to cloud-native platforms: technical approach and risk management
- Maintaining business continuity during modernization: parallel operations and cutover strategy
- How archiving legacy mainframe data enables retirement while preserving historical data access
- Cost model: mainframe TCO vs. cloud-native alternative — the numbers often drive urgency
Why This Matters for Chief Information Officers
CIOs responsible for mainframe environments face a unique combination of high cost, high risk, and growing skills scarcity. This eBook defines the modernization path that maintains business continuity throughout the transition — with archiving as the key enabler of safe legacy retirement.
About Solix Technologies
Solix Technologies is a leading provider of enterprise data management, AI, and cloud data solutions trusted by Fortune 2000 companies worldwide. The Solix Common Data Platform (CDP) delivers cloud-native solutions for enterprise archiving, data lakes, data governance, sensitive data discovery, and Enterprise AI — all on a single open multi-cloud architecture.
