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2023 State of Mainframe Modernization Report

Kyndryl surveyed 500 business leaders to learn their thoughts about mainframe transformation and application modernization.

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Navigate digital transformation with a trusted partner

As a technology leader, you need to modernize your company’s IT infrastructure, but it’s not as simple as lifting and shifting everything to the cloud.

You need a partner you can trust to help you manage the complexity of digital transformation and drive business results. That’s where Kyndryl comes in.

Our hybrid approach to modernization recognizes your existing investments and meets you where you are in your digital transformation journey. You can rely on our decades of experience, robust alliance partner network, and proven automation strategies to help accelerate your time to value.

Learn how BT Group is modernizing to save £17M annually.

Navigate digital transformation with a trusted partner

As a technology leader, you need to modernize your company’s IT infrastructure, but it’s not as simple as lifting and shifting everything to the cloud.

You need a partner you can trust to help you manage the complexity of digital transformation and drive business results. That’s where Kyndryl comes in.

Our hybrid approach to modernization recognizes your existing investments and meets you where you are in your digital transformation journey. You can rely on our decades of experience, robust alliance partner network, and proven automation strategies to help accelerate your time to value.

Learn how BT Group is modernizing to save £17M annually.

Why modernize?
01
Aging technology limits efficiency and the ability to respond quickly to changing business conditions.
Improve competitiveness with a faster, more agile IT estate that can support business and marketplace requirements.
How to clean up inefficient, costly cloud networks
02
Legacy systems and networks are expensive, complex, and difficult to modernize.
Save time and money with a hybrid approach that maximizes the value of existing technology investments while integrating new solutions.
4 Reasons IT modernization falls short—and pitfalls to avoid
03
Enterprise apps support growth but are becoming containerized, distributed, and latency-sensitive.
Optimize performance with improved security, compliance, and privacy of applications and data moved to the cloud.
Digitally transforming cloud-native networking strategy

why kyndryl?

01
Our people are among the most trusted, skilled, and experienced in the industry.

Trust

We are tenured and rooted in a heritage of secure-by-design, which is why customers trust us with their most sensitive data.

Experience

We have 30+ years of experience operating complex IT environments.

Skills

Our technical experts have hands-on expertise and extensive credentials in operating mission-critical systems.

02
Our technology offers differentiated insights, market-leading IP, and the convening power to provide the right solutions for your business needs.

Data and AI

Our data is derived from analytics, AI, and Machine Learning and applied to our vast quantity of IT operational data.

Market-leading IP

Our intellectual property is embodied in our service delivery across heterogeneous environments.

Orchestration

We have the ability to organize and orchestrate market-leading technology partners to deliver what customers want and need.

03
Our broad network of strategic alliances provides access to industry-leading technology.

Strategic alliances

We partner with hyperscalers (Microsoft, Google Cloud, and AWS) and a growing number of leading technology providers.

Platform agnostic

Our partner ecosystem gives you the flexibility to choose — or continue to use — the platform that works best for your business.


We're invested in customer success
Customer stories
Carrefour Belgium

Kyndryl helped migrate 400 servers in the basement of Carrefour Belgium headquarters to a single modern, centralized operating environment in a Kyndryl cloud data center.
Customer stories
LOTTECARD

Kyndryl helped LOTTECARD adopt a container-based cloud strategy to migrate and manage its financial systems, which resulted in a 4X increase in customer workload processing.
Capabilities customized to your needs
Modernize your applications and infrastructure
Modernize your applications and infrastructure

Modernize your business by transforming your applications and infrastructure to be more efficient, agile, and responsive.

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Modernize the mainframe
Modernize the mainframe

Mainframe Transformation and Application Modernization is based on the “right workload on the right platform” approach.

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Modernize your data
Modernize your data

Unlock value from data across applications, cloud, and edge computing, driving faster insights and building the foundation to adopt AI and transform your business.

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Frequently asked questions

 

 

Recognizing that their current operating models are insufficient and leave them vulnerable in today’s fast-changing market, organizations are increasingly ready to modernize operations.

Modernized operations help tame costs, break down organizational silos, and empower business units to make decisions based on data insights. This can lead to faster innovation and time to value in addition to business resiliency.

If you’re thinking about modernizing your IT estate, these four approaches can help you transform and grow your business — and help you get the most value from your mainframe.

  1. Consider a hybrid approach
    Most organizations are not adhering to a single approach of staying on or moving off the mainframe, but instead are adopting a hybrid model that uses a combination of approaches.
  2. Focus on security and resiliency
    Whichever pathway is chosen — whether to modernize on, integrate with, or move off the mainframe — security is the top concern, as mainframes often function as the hub of complex business operations.
  3. Don’t just maintain the status quo
    The financial benefits that can be achieved by implementing a mainframe modernization initiative are substantial. Across the board, businesses are seeing 9% to 11% cost savings because of their mainframe modernization projects.
  4. Work with experienced mainframe modernization experts
    No matter where a company is on its mainframe modernization journey, working with a third-party advisor with expert IT consultants can help to fill the skills gap and provide the deep expertise and experience required to drive these complex IT transformations.

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While each company’s challenges are unique, there are some themes and common reasons why IT modernization efforts fall short.

  • Oversimplifying cloud
    The cloud is an easy way to consolidate all your compute, storage, access, and security needs while reaping the benefits of cost savings, operational agility, and scalability as your business grows. But migrating to the cloud is no small feat. Migration costs, downtime, transition, and unexpected events can add up, especially if the project runs behind schedule.
  • Changing too much
    The average company can have up to 10 digital transformation initiatives running at once, often competing with each other for talent, attention, and resources. If something goes wrong, it can take days to detect and diagnose it, leading to downtime or outages that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per hour.
  • Moving too fast
    Modernizing an entire organization’s tech stack isn’t about being quick–it’s about reaping benefits for your business. Doing it right is much more important than doing it fast, and that means centering your process on your workloads.
  • Legacy challenges
    One of the hardest parts of modernizing for a digital-first economy is integrating your legacy systems. Complex, siloed legacy systems purpose-built for the needs of another time can create ongoing (not to mention expensive) barriers to IT modernization.

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