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Migrating an entire mainframe to the cloud.

Working with LzLabs, Swisscom migrated its entire mainframe application workload and data to a cloud infrastructure running the LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe® (SDM).

The
challenge.

  • To relieve pressure from a highly competitive market, and reduce IT costs
  • Minimize the risk of a declining mainframe skills pool
  • Position Swisscom for innovation in the communications industry

The
solution.

  • To relieve pressure from a highly competitive market, and reduce IT costs
  • Minimize the risk of a declining mainframe skills pool
  • Position Swisscom for innovation in the communications industry

It works. It really works.
You need to have the courage, and you have to face a change project, but it works. Go for it”

— Markus Tschumper, head of General IT Services, Swisscom

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The Customer.

Swisscom, a major telecommunications and IT service provider in Switzerland, has been running mainframes for over 30 years.

The company competes in an industry that is modernizing rapidly, ripe with innovation that is challenging to sustain under the restrictions of legacy technologies. Trends towards digital transformation have driven Swisscom (and its competitors) to continually refresh existing business models, and much of this transformative journey is technology-enabled.

The results.

70%

saving on annual recurring core software license

60%

cost reduction compared to previous mainframe costs

20 TB

active mainframe storage moved

Round table Q&A

Markus Tschumper, Head of General IT Services at Swisscom, speaks to LzLabs’ Dale Vecchio, Thilo Rockmann and Mark Cresswell about the company’s mainframe migration to the cloud. In this expanded discussion, learn more about the opportunities created for Swisscom, following the world’s first migration of an entire mainframe workload to the cloud, without recompilation or data changes.

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