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The NZ Transport Agency avoided a $70 million rebuild of its driver and vehicle registration system via a carefully-planned migration that moved ageing mainframe apps onto a modern Windows server environment. Its experience provides 10 useful lessons in how to manage large-scale app migrations while minimising risks and costs.
If you’re running a mainframe (and many enterprises still are), then one of your biggest expenses will be the monthly licence charges (MLCs) imposed by IBM. Reducing those costs could make a considerable difference, but making those calculations can be tricky.
You might think that we live in a mobile device era, but many of the services delivered to our phones are still drawing on mainframe computing power. And that legacy doesn’t come cheap: a survey of 590 mainframe users suggests that in companies that still use mainframes, 30 per cent…
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