U.S. Navy taps Microsoft Azure to enhance weather modeling

With two tropical storms headed for the Gulf Coast, a U.S. Navy team of leading engineers and scientists partnered with their Microsoft Federal counterparts over the Aug. 22–23 weekend to successfully deploy an enhanced weather model capable of rapidly scaling weather and ocean pattern predictions on demand. The Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System, or COAMPS-TC, began running in a production-like Microsoft Azure environment on Aug. 23. The proof-of-concept results, posted on Twitter starting Aug. 24, confirm the potential of using our secure cloud to deliver faster, real-time and scalable tropical cyclone forecasts, which result in greater fleet safety and effectiveness and public benefits.

Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) on Azure

Altair Engineering makes computer-aided engineering software used to create stronger, better, more innovative products, from bicycles to space shuttles. To make its HyperWorks and Inspire applications available to more engineers, Altair delivers them through its unlimited platform running in Microsoft Azure. In Azure, these solutions have access to affordable high-performance computing (HPC) resources, which enables low-cost collaboration among large engineering teams and opens up new markets for Altair.

Model complex natural disaster models

AXA Global P&C manages reinsurance programs for the AXA Group, a global insurance provider based in Paris, France. To create complex catastrophe models for floods and other natural disasters, a team of actuaries created a high-performance computing (HPC) solution based on the Microsoft Azure platform and Azure HPC Pack. Now, AXA Group can improve insurance services with more accurate, detailed information about events ranging from floods to hurricanes.

Deploy an end-to-end HPC environment in Azure

In this video, Cormac Garvey, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft Azure, outlines basics to stand up an end-to-end HPC (high-performance computing) environment using CycleCloud.

Storage Options for HPC Workloads

In this video, Scott Jeschonek, Cloud Storage Specialist at Microsoft Azure, provides an overview of a variety of different storage options to run HPC (high-performance computing) workloads on Azure including Blob Storage ANF, Azure HPC Cache, and others.

Azure Batch to scale containers for HPC

In this video, Mike Kiernan, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft Azure, guides potential users of containerized workloads to use Batch to orchestrate the workload.

Shrinking time-to-results with CFD at extreme scale with STAR-CCM+ on Azure HBv2 VMs

Microsoft, AMD, and Siemens have teamed up to make simulation-driven product design better, faster, and more cost-effective than ever before on the Cloud. With powerful simulation tools to capture the physics of your product over its operational life, Azure HPC offers foundational infrastructure and services that cut across the traditional boundaries of engineering disciplines.

Shrinking time-to-results for numerical weather prediction at extreme scale with WRF on Azure HBv2 VMs

Airline traffic coordination, global shipping and logistics systems, national defense, and disaster preparedness to ensure public safety, all share a fundamental need –fast and accurate weather forecasting. By delivering the highest-resolution weather simulation capabilities and doing so with world record speed, Microsoft and AMD are empowering stakeholders with critical insights and decision making tools.

Azure HPC Technical Onboarding Guide

This document outlines the Azure HPC ecosystem and how best for companies to start running HPC workloads in Azure.

Mainframe and Midrange Migration for Government Agencies

Over the years, government agencies have invested in mainframe and midrange technologies for mission critical applications, including applications that provide vital services to citizens. With advances in technology and changing economic models, transitioning to cloud services can be a compelling value proposition, providing government agencies with advantages in cost, flexibility, and application maintenance and development.

Mainframe Rehosting on Azure Virtual Machines

Migrating workloads from mainframe environments to the cloud enables you to modernize your infrastructure and often save on costs. Many workloads can be transferred to Azure with only minor code changes, such as updating the names of databases. An Azure virtual machine (VM) is used to isolate and manage the resources for a specific application on a single instance. Mainframes such as IBM z/OS use Logical Partitions (LPARS) for this purpose. A mainframe might use one LPAR for a CICS region with associated COBOL programs, and a separate LPAR for IBM Db2 database. A typical n-tier application on Azure deploys Azure VMs into a virtual network that can be segmented into subnets for each tier.

Mainframe to Azure: A Real World Modernization Case Study
When GEICO sought to migrate its sales mainframe application to the cloud, they had two choices. The first was to “rehost” their applications, which involved recompiling the code to run in a mainframe emulator hosted in a cloud instance. The second choice was to “rebuild” their infrastructure and replace the existing mainframe functionality with equivalent features build using cloud-native capabilities.

GEICO finds that the cloud is the best policy after seamless modernization and migration
Leading automobile insurer GEICO elevates customer engagement to an art form with its on-point, humorous commercials and engaging social media channels. Yet it knows that to stay competitive, it must back up compelling messaging with effective technology. That’s why, after turning to the cloud to create frictionless customer experiences, GEICO is transforming its mainframe-based internal business applications and migrating them to Microsoft Azure with the help of cloud partner Applied Information Sciences.

Jefferson County, Alabama Successfully Migrates From a Mainframe System to a Windows Environment in the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Jefferson County’s Information Technology Services (ITS) Team along with several other County department-staff and Astadia (Jefferson County’s Mainframe implementation partner) and Microsoft collaborated remotely and finished what was a 24-month project in just 14-months, saving the County over $600,000 a year.

Legacy Alpha Application gets a new life as SaaS on Microsoft Azure
For years, a successful actuarial services company relied on a vital financial application that ran on Alpha hardware—a server well past its end-of-life date. To modernize its infrastructure with as little risk as possible, the company turned to Stromasys Inc., experts in cross-platform server virtualization solutions. In a matter of days, the company was running its mission-critical application on Azure. Soon after, it began to offer the software as a service (SaaS) to other companies, turning the formerly high-maintenance legacy software into a growing profit center.

Charon-SSP in Microsoft Azure: Continue to use mission-critical apps without modification (Solaris SPARC on Azure)

Skytap on (IBM Power in Azure)

Raincode: Rejuvenate your mainframe code with Cloud Native Compilers

SPARC Solaris on Azure Using Stromasys
This reference architecture shows how an emulator called Charon-SSP from the Microsoft partner, Stromasys, can run SPARC processor-based Solaris virtual machines (VMs) in Azure. Charon-SSP is a member of the Charon cross-platform hardware virtualization product family. The emulator can create virtual replicas of Sun-4m, Sun-4u, or Sun-4v SPARC family members on standard x86-64 Linux physical computers or hypervisors.

Running applications in an emulator on Azure has several benefits, such as reduced operational costs and energy consumption. You can also run multiple application instances on a single x86-64 standard host or existing virtualization infrastructure, giving you the advantages of consolidation while easing legacy system management and maintenance.

IBM z Series on Azure Using TMaxSoft
TmaxSoft OpenFrame is a rehosting solution that makes it easy to lift existing IBM zSeries mainframe applications and shift them to Microsoft Azure. This lift-and-shift operation uses a no-code approach. TmaxSoft quickly migrates an existing application, as is, to a zSeries mainframe emulation environment on Azure.

This reference architecture illustrates how the TmaxSoft OpenFrame solution runs on Azure. The approach consists of two virtual machines (VMs) running Linux in an active-active configuration. An Azure Load Balancer distributes incoming traffic between the VMs. OpenFrame emulation software runs on the VMs and provides a zSeries runtime and facilities. Working with the OpenFrame software is an Azure SQL Database. This modernized database layer includes built-in business continuity features.

Unisys Mainframe Migration with Asysco
This architecture describes the conversion technologies that Microsoft partner Asysco uses to migrate Unisys mainframe workflows to Azure. The Automated Migration Technology (AMT) Framework allows an accelerated move into Azure without rewriting application code or redesigning data architecture. The framework converts legacy code to C#, while maintaining the source code in its original form. Application user interfaces and interactions can be virtually unchanged, minimizing the need for end user retraining.

Refactor IBM z/OS Mainframe Coupling Facility to Azure This architecture shows how Azure can provide scale-out performance and high availability that is similar to IBM z/OS mainframe systems with Coupling Facilities (CFs).

Modernize Mainframe & Midrange Data This reference architecture outlines an end-to-end modernization plan for mainframe and midrange data sources. The solution uses Azure data platform components in a data-first approach. Specifically, the plan involves object conversion, data ingestion, data transformation, data storage.

Running Micro Focus Enterprise Server 4.0 in a Docker Container in Azure
New to Micro Focus Enterprise Server 4.0 is the ability to run in a Docker container. The benefits of running Enterprise Server in Docker are centered around portability, performance, agility and isolation. For instance, a Docker image can be exported from one Windows VM to another or from another repository, and imported into another Windows server (assuming Docker support is installed there). It can then be run in the same way without having to install Enterprise Server because it is a part of the image (licensing considerations do still apply). For the purposes of this blog, I have decided to show how to set this up using the Windows 2016 Datacenter with Containers VM which is available from the Azure Marketplace. The nice thing about this offering is that Docker 18.09.0 is already preinstalled and ready to go. All we will need to do is deploy the container, run it and then connect to it with a 3270 emulator. At the end of this post, you will effectively be running a Mainframe application in a container.

Deploy Micro Focus Enterprise Server 4.0 to AKS
In a previous blog post the steps to run Micro Focus Enterprise Server 4.0 in a Docker Container were outlined. As a follow up to that, learn how to take it one step further and deploy that Docker image you created to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Azure Kubernetes service is a managed orchestration service based on Kubernetes. It allows you to deploy, scale and managed Docker Containers (and other container-based applications) across a cluster of container host.

Migrating iSeries (AS/400) Legacy Applications to Azure
The platform was first introduced as the AS/400 (Application System/400) on June 21, 1988 and later renamed to the eServer iSeries in 2000. The IBM System i is IBM's previous generation of midrange computer systems for IBM i users, and was subsequently replaced by the IBM Power Systems in April 2008. One feature that has contributed to the longevity of the IBM System i platform is its high-level instruction set (called TIMI for "Technology Independent Machine Interface" by IBM), which allows application programs to take advantage of advances in hardware and software without recompilation. The AS/400 has been a very robust platform in the past decades, offering the compatibility mentioned above, which has allowed customers to keep building up their legacy applications with no or minimum migration effort involved. But times have changed. Now, one of the biggest decisions IT managers have to make is how and where to run data center applications in order to lower costs and increase business agility.

Migrating iSeries (AS/400) Legacy Applications to Azure with Infinite
The platform was first introduced as the AS/400 (Application System/400) on June 21, 1988 and later renamed to the eServer iSeries in 2000. The IBM System i is IBM's previous generation of midrange computer systems for IBM i users, and was subsequently replaced by the IBM Power Systems in April 2008. One feature that has contributed to the longevity of the IBM System i platform is its high-level instruction set (called TIMI for "Technology Independent Machine Interface" by IBM), which allows application programs to take advantage of advances in hardware and software without recompilation. The AS/400 has been a very robust platform in the past decades, offering the compatibility mentioned above, which has allowed customers to keep building up their legacy applications with no or minimum migration effort involved. But times have changed. Now, one of the biggest decisions IT managers have to make is how and where to run data center applications in order to lower costs and increase business agility.

Migrating AIX Workloads to Azure: Approaches and Best Practices
Many customers would like to migrate their AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) workloads to Linux in Azure to take advantage of the benefits of a Modern Cloud Platform, but wonder how to get started. AIX is a UNIX operating system sold by IBM. Created in 1986, it became one of the leading operating systems for IBM RS/6000, Power Systems, PowerPC, IBM System i, IBM System/370, and even the PS/2 PCs. Many popular software packages were created for AIX, and a substantial installation base still runs mission-critical workloads on AIX to this day. With the rise of cloud computing platforms like Azure and the dominance of the x86 CPU platform, Linux has become the leading UNIX-like operating system. Also, Cloud Native Services are based on x86 processor architecture, so the migration path from AIX requires some refactoring. The goal of this post is to categorize the different types of applications on AIX and explore the best practices for migrating them to Azure.

Using Containers for Mainframe Modernization
The current trend in application development is Microservices. There are a number of reasons why Microservices are so compelling. Some of the key benefits are centered around improved agility, scalability, availability and the general complement with cloud services. In this blog post we will look at how Mainframe architectures map to microservices and how can they be applied to application modernization projects.

Deploying NTT Data UniKix in Azure, Part 1 Deploying the VM
UniKix by NTT Data is one of the leading Mainframe Re-hosting solutions available for the Azure Platform. With UniKix, you can extend and evolve your legacy Mainframe applications by migrating them to Azure, where you gain the extensibility, flexibility, and scalability of the cloud. At a high level, UniKix is composed of two main environment, the TPE (Transaction Processing Environment) and the BPE (Batch Processing Environment). This blog is Part 1, where you install UniKix on a preconfigured Azure Virtual Machine (VM).In Part 2, you see how to deploy, configure, and run the ACCT demo application that comes with the base installation. When complete, you will be running a Mainframe legacy application in Azure.

MIPS Equivalent Sizing for IBM CICS Cobol Applications Migrated to Microsoft Azure
One of the key drivers behind Mainframe Modernization to the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform is lower cost on a more agile andflexible environment.An environment that can run your existing Mainframe workloads using the powerful set of tools for system management, DevOps and rich analytics.

Set up Micro Focus Enterprise Server 4.0 and Enterprise Developer 4.0 in Azure
A common workload on Azure is a development and test environment because it is so cost-effective and easy to deploy and tear down. In this blog post, Microsoft shows how to set up Micro Focus Enterprise Server 4.0 and Micro Focus Enterprise Developer 4.0 on Azure.

Set up IBM Z Development and Test Environment 12.0 in Azure
One of the biggest cost benefits of the Azure platform is running development and test (dev/test) environments. For mainframe workloads on their Z Systems, IBM has a dev/test environment for the x86 platform called IBM Z Development and Test Environment (IBM zD&T for short). This solution helps customers take advantage of the cost savings of the x86 platform for their less critical dev/test environments, and then push the updates back to the more expensive Z System Production environment. In this blog, Microsoft walks through the setup of zD&T Enterprise Edition.

Stromasys Charon-SSP Solaris Emulator: Azure Setup Guide
This guide walks through the steps to set up and install Stromasys Charon-SSP for Solaris Emulator on Microsoft Azure. Charon-SSP is a member of the Charon cross-platform hardware virtualization product family. It creates a virtual replica of Sun-4m, Sun-4u, or Sun-4v SPARC family members on a standard x86-64 computer system running Linux on top of physical hardware or a hypervisor. Through Charon-SSP, you can continue to use applications that run on end-of-life SPARCstation or SPARCserver without changes.

Stromasys legacy server emulation on Azure: Running applications designed for SPARC, Alpha, VAX, PDP-11, and HP 3000
If your organization is using legacy hardware, you know the risk and cost of maintaining it. A virtualized environment on Azure Virtual Machines can offer better performance, lower costs, and less risk for running a legacy software stack. In this short guide, Ricardo Galvan of Global AzureCAT tells how one company used Stromasys Charon-AXP emulator to run a mission-critical application on Azure. Stromasys cross-platform server virtualization solutions enable you to use the Azure to run applications designed for SPARC, Alpha, VAX, PDP-11, and HP 3000.

Install IBM DB2 pureScale on Azure (Azure Docs)
The IBM DB2 pureScale environment provides a database cluster for Azure with high availability and scalability on Linux operating systems. This article shows an architecture for running DB2 pureScale on Azure.

Deploy IBM Db2 pureScale on Azure
The AzureCAT and DMJ teams recently worked with an enterprise that rehosted their IBM Db2 environment running on z/OS to IBM Db2 pureScale on Azure. In this guide, Larry Mead, Benjamin Guinebertière, Alessandro Vozza, and Jonathon Frost describe the steps they took during the migration. Their findings were reviewed by members of the IBM Db2 pureScale team.

Installation scripts are available on GitHub. These scripts are based on the architecture that the team used for a typical medium-sized OLTP workload.

Demystifying mainframe to Azure migration
Customers are looking for a mainframe alternative capable of delivering equivalent functionality and features without the drawbacks and costs. This paper, by Larry Mead of the AzureCAT team, covers the major IBM z/OS mainframe components alongside their Azure equivalents and is designed to help you complete the critical first step of moving to the cloud. It also provides a road map for starting the conversation with IT decision-makers who subscribe to outdated mainframe philosophies.

Microsoft Azure Government cloud for mainframe applications
Planning an application migration is the ideal time to add value and agility to even well-established mainframe workloads. In this quick guide, Larry Mead of AzureCAT shows how United States government agencies and their partners can use Azure Government for mainframe applications—and migration may not be as difficult as you think. Azure Government delivers the advantages of a mainframe in a more cost-efficient and agile environment. In addition, Azure Government earned a Provisional Authority to Operate (P-ATO) for FedRAMP High Impact.

Move mainframe compute and storage to Azure
To run mainframe workloads on Microsoft Azure, you need to know how your mainframe’s capabilities compare to Azure. Based on an IBM z14 mainframe, this guide by Larry Mead of AzureCAT explores how to get comparable results on Azure. The massively scalable compute and storage resources on Azure provide immediate benefits to organizations running mainframe workloads.

E-Book: Install TmaxSoft OpenFrame on Azure
TmaxSoft OpenFrame makes it easy to lift your existing mainframe assets and shift them to Microsoft Azure. In this paper, Steve Read (AzureCAT) and Manoj Aerroju (TmaxSoft) explain how to set up an OpenFrame environment suitable for development, demos, testing, and production workloads. By moving your mainframe workloads to the cloud, you can modernize your infrastructure, benefit from the scale of Azure, and minimize drawbacks associated with mainframes.

Micro Focus: Moving IBM Mainframe Workloads to Azure
Is Moving IBM Mainframe Workloads to Azure key to your digital transformation strategy? Azure is a secure cloud platform that can meet your scalability, reliability, resilience and performance goals. But moving IBM mainframe workloads to Azure can be a challenge. View this webinar recording to discover the pragmatic and proven methods that will take your IBM mainframe applications to the Azure cloud. Bob Ellsworth, Microsoft Director of Enterprise Modernization and Graham Owen, Micro Focus Senior Product Manager – Mainframe Enterprise Solutions share their expertise on how to approach, plan and succeed when moving IBM Mainframe workloads to Azure.

Raincode 360 - Mainframe to Cloud Native

• An advanced showcase to migrate IBM mainframe applications to Azure
• Raincode 360 Advanced Showcase - Mainframe to Cloud Native
• How to modernize IBM mainframe COBOL, PL/I, HLASM portfolios to Azure.

This complete scenario incorporates the code, the development project, the data, the tools, the compilers, and a guided presentation. Raincode 360 Advanced Showcase is deployed as an Azure Resource Manager Template.

Unisys Launches Flagship ClearPath Forward Software Environment into the Public Cloud
ClearPath® MCP Software Series for Microsoft Azure enables users to deploy business-critical applications transparently in the public cloud without altering existing business models, re-engineering or changing code.

IBM Mainframe to Microsoft Azure Reference Architecture
In businesses today, across all market segments, cloud computing has become the focus of current and future technology needs for the enterprise. The cloud offers compelling economics, the latest technologies and platforms, and the agility to adapt your information systems quickly and efficiently. However, many large organizations are burdened by much older, previous generation platforms, typically in the form of a mainframe computing environment. Although old and very expensive to maintain, the mainframe platform continues to run the most important information systems of an organization. The purpose of this reference architecture is to assist business and IT professionals as they prepare plans and project teams to start the process of moving mainframe-based application portfolios to Microsoft Azure.

Unisys Mainframe to Microsoft Azure Reference Architecture
In businesses today, across all market segments, cloud computing has become the focus of current and future technology needs for the enterprise. The cloud offers compelling economics, the latest technologies and platforms, and the agility to adapt your information systems quickly and efficiently. However, many large organizations are burdened by much older, previous generation platforms, typically in the form of a mainframe computing environment. Although old and very expensive to maintain, the mainframe platform continues to run the most important information systems of an organization. The purpose of this reference architecture is to assist business and IT professionals as they prepare plans and project teams to start the process of moving mainframe-based application portfolios to Microsoft Azure.

AIS Essential Guide to Mainframe Modernization
Create more agile and efficient systems, eliminate security and compliance vulnerabilities, and reduce operating costs by modernizing your mainframe. Enterprises looking to remain competitive must rethink their approach to IT and create a strategy for mainframe migration to the cloud. Aging on-premises mainframes impede innovation and lack the flexibility of modern cloud solutions. While migration approaches and dependencies can be complex, the impact of modernizing will help your organization scale efficiently to meet modern business demands. As you look to align your business goals with the outcomes of various migration patterns, there are many considerations.

Stromasys Charon-SSP Solaris Emulator Azure Setup Guide

This guide walks through the steps to set up and install Stromasys Charon-SSP for Solaris Emulator on Microsoft Azure. Charon-SSP is a member of the Charon cross-platform hardware virtualization product family. It creates a virtual replica of Sun-4m, Sun-4u, or Sun-4v SPARC family members on a standard x86-64 computer system running Linux on top of physical hardware or a hypervisor.Through Charon-SSP, you can continue to use applications that run on end-of-life SPARCstation or SPARC server without changes.

Mainframe Transformation: Azure is the New Mainframe
In this webinar, you will learn about moving Mainframe legacy compute and data technologies to Azure. This webinar also covers topics on hybrid architectures and migration pathways to Azure. Technical and executive level discussion topics are covered.

Mainframe Transformation to Azure
In this webinar, you will learn about moving government solutions to Azure. This webinar also covers topics on Mainframe and Legacy systems in the Government space and their pathways into Azure. Technical and executive level discussion topics are covered.

Retail Industry Legacy Webinar on Angelbeat
In this webinar, you will learn about moving retails solutions to Azure. This webinar also covers topics on Mainframe and Legacy systems in the retail industry and their pathways into Azure. Technical and executive level discussion topics are covered.

Topics in Government Mainframe Transformation to Azure Gov Cloud
This webinar discussed topics common in government transformation of mainframes, midrange, and other non-x86 platforms into Azure. In this journey we covered common use cases, technology patterns, and example reference architectures, and specifically:

• Technology experts spoke on their engineering point of view on the technical patterns of mainframe transformation to Azure in government business rationale and value proposition of migrating a mainframe to Azure
• Common use cases and best practices from such a large and complex migration
• Technology patterns with example reference architectures

Monolithic Mainframe to Azure Gov Cloud The USAF Journey
Watch our on-demand webinar to learn about a recent example where together the Microsoft Azure Global Engineering and Customer Success Unit teams facilitated the migration of a mission-critical system running on a Unisys Dorado OS2200 Mainframe into Azure.

During this webinar, hear the U.S. Air Force's Senior Materiel Leader of Enterprise Logistics Systems, Col Summer Clovis, and NetOps Program Manager, Ms. Jaylene Carteret discuss:

• Hear from the customer team on their perspectives, business rationale, and value proposition of migrating a mainframe to Azure
• Learn about the challenges overcome and best practices established from such a large and complex migration
• Discover capabilities unlocked in moving from a legacy monolith to a refactored Azure cloud architecture
• Hear a brief technical discussion on the migration process and target-state architecture in Azure

Skytap on Azure Webinar | Microsoft Azure
Skytap on Azure helps simplify cloud migration by reducing risk, complexity, and disruption to business continuity. Join this webinar to learn how Skytap on Azure enables you to run traditional workloads including AIX, IBM i, Linux on IBM Power, and x86 natively on Azure.

In this session, you will:

• Learn how to move your traditional IBM Power and x86 workloads to the cloud with Skytap on Azure
• Hear about typical use cases for Skytap on Azure and how to integrate to Azure services.
• See a demonstration of Skytap on Azure in action.

ClearPath MCP Software Series For Azure - Webinar
In this webinar, hear from Unisys Cloud and ClearPath® experts to learn how: You can accelerate your cloud initiatives to quickly re-platform and transition ClearPath® MCP applications to Azure securely and seamlessly Unisys migrated our ClearPath® applications to Azure over a weekend.

Podcast: Leverage the Power of Azure with Steve Read
In this episode of Astadia’s Walter's World Podcast, Walter speaks with Steve Read, Principal Program Manager: Azure Global Customer Engineering. They discuss cloud transformation options for organizations running on legacy IT systems.

Bridge to Application Modernization: Virtualized SPARC/PA-RISk/DEC to Azure
There are many mission-critical applications on servers from an earlier generation, such as SPARC, Alpha, VAX, PDP-11, and PA-RISC. Maintaining legacy hardware means spiraling cost and increasing risk. This may not even be an option if you plan to exit your datacenter. In this webinar, Jonathon Frost of Microsoft (Azure Global Engineering) and John Prot from Stromasys will discuss such topics as why emulate on Azure, how to lift and shift, what emulation can achieve for your business and state of mind.

Retail Industry Legacy Webinar on Angelbeat
Bring your mainframe applications onto an agile cloud platform and run them securely around the world, plus reduce your infrastructure costs. Maximize your business potential with a reliable, less costly, more flexible and scalable mainframe migration strategy. Rapidly address your customer needs at scale without sacrificing functionality, security, or compliance. In general, understand when to migrate versus modernize:

• Migration: Move your existing apps to Azure in an optimized way—without code changes—using a lift-and-shift migration. As-is app migration to cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) helps you flip capital expenditures to operational expenditures and quickly gain agility and scale.
• Modernization: Modify or extend your app to further scale and optimize for cloud-native architectures. Take advantage of platform as a service (PaaS) capabilities such as built-in security, patching, high availability, and auto-scaling.

ClearPath MCP Software Series For Azure
In this webinar, hear from Unisys Cloud and ClearPath® experts to learn how to accelerate your cloud initiatives to quickly re-platform and transition ClearPath® MCP applications to Azure securely and seamlessly, and how Unisys migrated our ClearPath® applications to Azure over a weekend.

Stromasys Charon Virtual SPARC Solaris with VE License in Azure Marketplace
Charon-SSP recreates the SPARC virtual hardware layer on industry standard x86 infrastructure. The virtual layer acts as SPARC hardware and is compatible with any Sun/Solaris software running on it, so there is no need for code conversion or source code. Charon-SSP is fully binary compatible with SPARC hardware, including storage, Ethernet, and serial line I/O. No risky migration projects are required, nor changes to the original software (operating system, layered products, or applications), its procedures, or handling. Your end users would not even notice that the hardware platform had been replaced! Charon-SSP can replace SPARC systems from the Sun4C, Sun4M, Sun4U, and Sun4V families. Charon-SSP allows all applications on legacy Sun SPARC systems to continue running without modification. As a member of the Azure Partner Network, Stromasys makes it easier for customers to move to legacy Solaris workloads to Azure by virtualizing SPARC systems on Intel x86 servers in the cloud.

TmaxSoft Openframe in Azure Marketplace
OpenFrame enables you to move legacy mainframe applications. OpenFrame is a complete mainframe rehosting solution that lets you take (lift) your existing mainframe assets and move (shift) them to an open system platform, quickly and with minimal risk. This helps your business save on costly mainframe contracts and more effectively leverage critical data, while gaining a more flexible and transparent environment. Compilers (COBOL, PL/I, Assembler), datasets (flat files, GDGs and VSAM), databases (DB2, IMS, IDMS, Oracle), online systems (CICS) and batch systems (JES, JCL) work as is, on an open system such as Linux.

Micro Focus Enterprise Server in Azure Marketplace
A proven flexible, scalable deployment environment for rehosting IBM mainframe applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Server™ is an application deployment environment for IBM mainframe applications. It delivers a fast return on investment to support your digital transformation agenda.