Mainframe Trends 2024: Understanding How Cloud and GenAI Can Modernize Mainframes
This IDC Perspective report highlights the trends in mainframe modernization and emphasizes the growing trend of hybrid IT environments, where mainframes and cloud solutions coexist to provide scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. It showcases how AI and generative AI are enabling the modernization process to become more automated and efficient, reducing risks and accelerating digital transformation. This report should inspire CIOs and IT managers to invest in modernization, embrace hybrid strategies, and leverage AI to transform their mainframe systems, ensuring agility, innovation, and sustained growth in the digital age."Adopting AI-driven mainframe modernization allows organizations to automate, optimize, and expedite their digital transformation, transforming legacy mainframe systems into innovation catalysts while mitigating associated risks." — Research Manager Cyrille Chausson, European Application Modernization Strategies Lead
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- Executive Snapshot
- Situation Overview
- Anchoring Mainframes in Companies' Digital Strategies
- The Ongoing Restructuration of the Mainframe Market
- Impact of VMware Acquisition by Broadcom on the Mainframe Market
- Hyperscalers' Strategy in Mainframe Modernization
- A Deep-Dive into Hyperscalers' Mainframe Services
- GenAI Opens New Paths in Mainframe Modernization
- Restoring Control and Reducing Modernization Risks for Innovation
- Advice for the Technology Buyer
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- Related Research
- Synopsis
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