Ed Rodney-Smith, Programme Director – UK Mainframe Services at Ensono, explores the role of the mainframe in a hybrid IT world, arguing that modernising, rather than replacing, the core will enable CIOs to base decisions on business need rather than on legacy platform limitations.
Ed leads the Mainframe Services introduction to the UK and European market. He is a highly accomplished, driven and results-focused senior IT professional with over 20 years’ experience in strategy execution and delivering sustainable improvements within private and public sector.
With mainframes powering over 30 trillion transactions a day, it’s time to move beyond maintenance and unlock the potential trapped inside your legacy system.
Our experts discuss how to do it:
Against the background of an ageing infrastructure and retiring workforce, this new report details strategies to:
Simon Ratcliffe, Principal Advisor at Ensono, discusses the practical and perception problems facing mainframes, arguing that far from being embarrassed by our reliance on these legacy systems, we should embrace mainframe as a critical component of business transformation.
By 2020, some 84,000 mainframe IT positions could lie vacant as COBOL veterans leave the workforce and millennial IT staffers focus on other areas. Read the report's key findings and see how Ensono can breathe new life into your mainframe.
Ensono is the single service provider able to support clients on running services in their hybrid IT world from mainframe to cloud and everything in between.
Your mainframe workforce is retiring and your environment is ageing. The experienced professionals at Ensono provide the high-touch technical and operational support that allows our clients to do a lot more with less. Let us show you how to shift CapEx to OpEx, improve TCO and focus on what you do best.
Availability of your customer and enterprise applications is essential to your business, but the management of these critical applications can divert your focus from strategic innovations. Ensono’s experienced professionals are trusted by clients to improve the agility, availability, and security of their business applications.
The cloud offers enormous potential for businesses seeking to respond to increasing competition, or seize opportunities created by new technologies, to drive agility, innovation and revenue. Ensono has extensive experience in working with CIOs to overcome the complex challenges of migrating and integrating cloud solutions; ensuring that the right workload is in the right place at the right cost, and integrated with your enterprises’ hybrid IT estate.
Our experts can help you create a coherent and actionable plan to address your mainframe challenges – by resolving the skills shortages and delivering greater economic value through flexible and innovative commercial models.
Ensono is the single service provider able to support clients on running services in their hybrid IT world from mainframe to cloud and everything in between.