After five years of testing the Swiss startup LzLabs (Zurich) is almost ready for the inauguration of the first mainframe defined by software in the world . A solution designed to enable companies to migrate legacy applications to Linux server platforms and open source cloud. Announced from the stage of being Cebit in Hanover, the novelty is still in the testing phase at the ten partner companies and will be offered both in the data center operationalized by Red Hat Linux, or through the Microsoft Azure cloud platform (thus enabling the implementation of public clouds, private or hybrid). The mainframe defined by softwae of LzLabs will support leading operating environments and existing languages , so that companies can cut costs related to hardware and mainframe software, while safeguarding investment in applications, data and processes.
the LzLabs solution enables cloud infrastructure and Linux to process thousands of transactions per second, while maintaining the reliability, scalability, maintenance and safety. The offer of the Swiss startup includes a faithful reconstruction of online environments , batch and primary databases, ensuring compatibility and performance.
The new Swiss tries to end the stalemate in which many companies It is now forced by complex legacy systems not being able to experiment with new roads. “Although there is a virtually universal request to release the mainframe applications to improve interoperability, making companies more agile and reduce costs, risks and complexities associated with the rewriting or recompiling the code (Cobol or Pl / 1, ed ) are considered too high for many mainframe customers “ said Thilo Rockmann , chairman of the Board of LzLabs.
With over 70% of commercial transactions that take place on these systems, in fact, many businesses depend on applications based on Bees obsolete. These organizations have had to abandon compatibility with mainframe to move existing applications and data to the cloud or Linux. In this way, migration has been made very difficult , because the data is converted and more complex applications must be rewritten or recompiled, as well as being tested in a new environment.
According to the company estimates, today there are about 220 billion lines of Cobol code, whose complete rewrite would entail additional costs for 4,000 billion dollars. The LzLabs solution is based mainly on container: When the legacy programs of companies are inserted in these new “cages” software, are enhanced to run on modern computers and the old bees are replaced with programming interfaces latest.
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