Welcome to the Micro Focus Application Modernization & Connectivity Podcast Series – Tech Talks with Matt hosted by Micro Focus’ Matthew Hennessey. Be sure to tune into to the entire series to hear from senior IT practitioners about how they are addressing their biggest IT challenges.

In this episode Matt quizzes Microsoft’s Richard Gamblin and Erik Van Enk on why organizations are looking to cloud to transform their core applications on mainframe, and what are biggest inhibitors to making this change. The duo from Microsoft also weighs in on why now is the time to act and how Microsoft in partnership with Micro Focus can facilitate the transformation. 

Synopsis of the episode:

In recent years, Cloud has become a first-class citizen for delivering enterprise-class business services. Increasingly, organizations are bringing their most trusted services to Cloud, to exploit the benefits of scale, resilience, security and emerging service innovations, such as AI. The recent advances in technology maturity in Cloud platforms, application delivery techniques and transformation tooling is bringing us to critical mass of transformation programs – and now is the time to act to fully embrace Cloud.