| |October 20198e've heard the term `digital transforma-tion' used almost to the point of exhaus-tion in the past cou-ple of years ­ but it's not just a lot of hot air: It's the future. IDC predicts that digital transformation will attain macroeconomic scale over the next three to four years, changing the way enterprises operate and re-shaping the global economy. According to the research company, "By 2020, 50 percent of the Global 2000 will see the majority of their business depend on their ability to create digitally enhanced products, services and experiences."To meet the challenges of what IDC calls the `digi-tal transformation economy', organizations need to modernize their core technologies to meet consumer and staff needs ­ including the mainframe architectures that provide the very foundation of many businesses these days. If you're ready to upgrade your architecture but you're concerned with the risks, time and cost of a complete rewrite, however, there is another option: Rehosting.What is Rehosting?Rehosting is an option whereby existing mainframe ap-plications move unchanged to a modern open system, such as multi-tiered, SQL-based x86 environments, or the cloud. Each has its own advantages. Rehosting to an x86 system results in lower capital expenditure in the long term, newer systems result in lower purchase costs and have reduced space, power and cooling requirements over their lifetimes. Cloud-based architectures, on the other hand, offer flexibility. Not limited by on-site hardware, cloud providers can scale capabili-ties to match user demand by utilizing enter-prise-grade servers. Additionally, operating applications through the cloud opens the door to new services, which can further boost a business' ability to compete in today's marketplace.Why Rehosting? For many businesses, Rehosting can be a thoroughly cost-effective way to overhaul mainframe architectures. When performed properly, Rehosting provides many of the benefits of a rewrite, with significantly fewer risks and costs.Safety is also improved, since existing mainframe se-curity is maintained, and additional safeguards provided by modern SQL databases can now be employed quickly and easily. If you're still not convinced, here are 10 important rea-sons to look closely at Rehosting:1. It helps fund necessary innovation. Rehosting has been proven to dramatically reduce infrastructure and operating costs. These funds then can be reallocated to innovation ­ which may include the rewriting of legacy apps.2. It can support bimodal or two-speed IT- Bimodal IT is a Gartner concept created to help CIOs understand that their IT estate must support both traditional and WIN MY OPINIONIN THE NEW `DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION ECONOMY', MODERNIZING CORE TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURES IS CRITICAL By Raghu Radhakrishnan, CEO & MD, TmaxSoft IndiaRaghu Radhakrishnan, CEO & MD
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