In today’s enterprise digital landscape, mainframe modernization is no longer a back-office technical exercise. It has become a strategic initiative tied directly to innovation velocity, operational resilience, regulatory compliance and long-term competitiveness. Organizations are not abandoning the mainframe, but they are rethinking how code, architecture and platforms evolve to meet modern business demands.
Techstrong polled its community of infrastructure, DevOps and mainframe professionals to understand how organizations are approaching application modernization, code transformation and AI-assisted development on the mainframe. Our findings reveal that modernization is now a mainstream priority, with most enterprises balancing deep architectural change and operational stability while evaluating hybrid placement strategies and security-first platform decisions.
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Chief Analyst, Visible Impact & Research Director, Ecosystems, Channels, & Marketplaces at The Futurum Group. Guy is responsible for positioning, go-to-market, and sales guidance across technologies and markets. He has decades of field experience describing technologies, their business and community value, and how they are evaluated and acquired. Guy’s specialty areas include AI, DevOps/cloud-native, enterprise applications, application integration, Big Data, governance-risk-compliance, containerization, virtualization, HPC, CPUs-GPUs-xPUs, and systems lifecycle management. Guy started his technology career as a research director for technology media company Ziff Davis, with stints at PC Magazine, eWeek, and CIO Insight. Prior to joining Visible Impact, he worked at Dell, including postings in marketing, product, and technical marketing groups for a wide range of products, including engineered systems, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, and mission-critical cloud services. He lives and works in Austin, TX. Guy started his technology career as a research director for technology media company Ziff Davis, with stints at PC Magazine, eWeek, and CIO Insight. Prior to joining Visible Impact, he worked at Dell, including postings in marketing, product, and technical marketing groups for a wide range of products, including engineered systems, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, and mission-critical cloud services. He lives and works in Austin, TX.