Bridge the Technology Gap
Modernize your Mainframe Backbone by Blending New with the Old
Businesses, universities, government agencies, and many other organizations have been running their operations for many decades. Barring the few that have started in the last decade, all organizations have stored their legacy data of mainframes of yesteryears. The business logic also resides on these mainframes and has been continuously running for years – in some cases for decades.
The exponentially growing demands on the backend infrastructure – for big data analysis, AI & ML, and making the business more responsive. The legacy systems can no longer take on the challenges of the dynamic business environment.
The enterprises are facing enormous challenges to not only grow but even to maintain their current scale of operations in the face of legacy systems becoming obsolete. The only hope for their survival and future growth now is in modernizing their mainframe-based systems
This requires a deep understanding of their businesses, mainframe applications & their architecture, and overcoming the challenges posed by the migration of the services to modern infrastructure. Vailexa provides its expert services to help enterprises to modernize and migrate their mainframe-based applications and databases to Agile and Cloud-based systems.
We can help you strategize and plan the entire modernization cycle – from upgrading systems, rewriting applications, porting legacy code on modern infrastructure, migrating data, and adapting your legacy systems to meet new demands.
Benefits of Mainframe Modernization
Savings in MIPS costs by reducing dependence on licensing of legacy systems – hardware and software included.
Deploy Big data Analytics and AI tools to simplify data access, update & automate business logic, and reveal hidden data trends.
Turn CAPEX into OPEX by deploying pay-as-you-use cloud virtualization services for infrastructure, platforms, and software.
Bring scalability and flexibility to meet fluctuating workloads – scale up during peak time, scale down otherwise.
Speed up your time-to-market by using RAD tools and no-code/low-code tools for development, testing, deployment, and release.
Reduce your carbon footprint by adopting sustainable infrastructure on the cloud and replacing the power-guzzling mainframe.
Modernize legacy technology stacks by replacing code written in COBOL, Fortran, C, and REXX with a more modern tech stack.
Save greatly on building, maintenance, security (physical and cyber), and operations costs by adopting the pay-as-you-use cloud model.
Prepare your systems for the future by bringing in a skill shift as engineers proficient in legacy technologies disappear from the scene.
Reduce dependency and increase the resilience of the systems by adopting change, bringing in automation, and cost-effective management.
With a more modern infrastructure and application stack, you can gain a competitive advantage over your peers who are still stuck in the past.
Enhance the productivity of engineers and other employees who are dependent on applications, analysis, and data from these core systems.
Our Offerings
Modernize Using the Right Approach, Right Solutions, and the Right Tools
Vailexa Mainframe Modernization core team has the training, experience, and skills to meet any challenge that you may face. Our project managers and consultants can draw a plan to suit your exact needs.
API Commissioning for Mainframes
You can rejuvenate your mainframe applications by commissioning modern APIs that can enable new business capabilities for a more digital world.
APIs would help in tackling multiple issues at the same time.
Use them for:
Analytics and ML tools to deliver a new user experience.
Unlock new functionalities working in tandem with legacy systems.
Use microservices for incremental modernization.
Gradually shift to IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
Gradually migrate data to newer datastores.
Automate processes by integrating microservices.
Offer omnichannel and uniform services.
Bring agility through reusability and reduce time-to-market.
Batch Offloading
Most legacy applications on the mainframe have periodic peak workloads that come in a batch of processes.
For example:
Periodic transaction processing like cash register tallying, payroll processing, and account reconciliation.
The periodic statement, report, and bill generation.
Data migration involving mainframe database.
Data transformation, transmission, archival, and purge.
With Vailexa’s services, you can migrate all mainframe workloads to faster batch and transaction processing servers. We can help you offload processing loads to a fitting platform for better performance, reduced costs, and without any hiccups.
We can configure:
Hadoop – for low value, slow-performing jobs.
Spring batch – for mission-critical periodic jobs.
ETL – for data extraction, transformation, and load jobs.
MongoDB – for voluminous databases.
DevOps for Agility:
Progressive Transformation in People, Processes, and Technology.
Adopting DevOps for the mainframe would require a transformation in the mindset of the developers, IT engineers, and QA analysts.
The Vailexa Center of Excellence has developed a CI/CD model adapted to suit the characteristics of mainframes. Therefore, you can expect a release every few weeks, instead of the conventional minimum of a few months.
Be Lean by Adopting Lean
Increase agility.
Reduce time-to-market.
Improve security, quality, and functionality.
Support JIT development and deployment.
Simplify through automation.
Legacy System Decommissioning
Make room for innovation
Once you are sure to decommission legacy systems, Vailexa can follow a structured, scientific, and thorough step-by-step process. It ensures:
Completeness of coverage.
Promptness of delivery.
Economies of scale.
Consistency in data
Continuity of operations.
Vailexa experts employ the perfect tools for analyzing, configuring, and migrating, data during decommissioning. It ensures that your operations are neither hindered, nor any data are lost.
Migrate to Cloud
We follow a lift-and-shift, zero turbulence approach to migration.
Vailexa has been helping clients seamlessly migrate to the cloud their applications and data. For organizations where the legacy code still has stored value and requires merely a platform change.
Client Benefits:
The organization can extract value from existing code.
With cloud migration the cost savings in hardware and maintenance are substantial.
Cloud allows easy and quick scaling of operations, without a huge CAPEX.
The security, uptime, and reliability of the cloud are far superior to a privately owned mainframe.
No expenses in writing new code.
Vailexa has expertise in configuring cloud platforms to emulate a mainframe environment. Its team uses tools and like TmaxSoft OpenFrame, Oracle Tuxedo ART, Micro Focus Enterprise Server, Raincode, and TidalScale.
Reengineer
Reengineer Your Legacy Systems. Make Them Future Proof
Vailexa experts help enterprises to scale up their operations by reengineering their architectures, processes, and workflows.
By reengineering we deploy a new app that does what the legacy application did -only much better, secure, and faster. We allow you to re-imagine and re-create UI and UX to enable and empower stakeholders.
Our approach to reengineering involves both proprietary and partner solutions
You benefit from:
Better performance of platform-based apps with a focus on mission-critical high-volume processes.
Standardized solutions are widely accepted in the industry leaving scope for future enhancements.
Improved security and privacy by validation, authentication, and verification at each step.
Our Mainframe Modernization Strategy
Simply put, the approach is a 4-step process – each with its intricacies and challenges.
1. Capture mainframe data (as-is, from a datastore like DB2) using a Change Data Capture and transfer it to a distributed in-memory data store.
2. Use smart caching for legacy applications to significantly lessen the need to access the mainframe.
3. Expose COBOL/CICS applications via APIs to integrate with new applications.
4. Develop and deploy mission-critical applications for extreme transaction processing, analytics, business intelligence.
The Vailexa Advantage
1. Microservices architecture
2. Dynamic scaling capabilities.
3. Containers can be deployed everywhere.
4. Can support all types of mainframe workloads – read/write-intensive, compute-intensive, batch processing, and streaming.
5. Combine OLTP with OLAP to integrate analytics in transactions processing.
6. Deploy AI/ML tools with legacy code and databases.
7. Support for many data types.
8. Agility support using DevOps.
9. Exploit cloud and digital tech.