Micro Focus Application Modernization & Connectivity Podcast Series| TechTalks with Matt: Recent Episodes
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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.
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.
Synopsis of the episode:
A very interesting facet of the mainframe modernization journey is role of COBOL, a piece of code that is over 50 years old and which can run on the cloud, on the web or even via a mobile application. In an uncertain environment, modernization efforts underpinned by Cobol have allowed business to stay agile and flexible without demanding heavy up front expenditures. Hear from this duo of experts at Syntax IT Group share their rich experience as a partner, who for the past 27 years has been helping organizations of all sizes modernize their mainframes by leveraging Micro Focus solutions powered by COBOL. Stefanos Vasileiadis and Konstantinos Knostantinidis explain that while COBOL applications may seem challenging for many developers to maintain and modernize, Micro Focus’ Visual COBOL studio allows developers to re-use, re-purpose and write COBOL programs as easily as any other programming language such as C# and C++. With Micro Focus technology anyone can dive into COBOL as all coding needs is supported by modern, industry-standard IDEs such as Visual Studio or Eclipse.
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.
Synopsis of the episode:As we get deeper into the various facets of Application Modernization, a valued Micro Focus customer weighs in on the process that drives modernization. James Boucher, Data Architect, Liberty Life, makes a very valid point on the underlying business processes that need to be considered before embarking on the modernization journey, some of which tend to be overlooked. Matt probes James’ rich experience with modernizing a traditional monolithic company, and unearths the key challenges and pitfalls faced by such organizations during the modernization journey.
We are delighted to have you tune into this episode. Matt has an energetic chat with one of Micro Focus’ key partners and a leading system integrator – Zensar, on the role of microservices in the transitioning of monolithic architecture into a modern and agile organization. Ravi Chilukuri, Associate Vice President & Regional Market Lead, Zensar Technologies and Ross Botha, Director Infrastructure and Cloud Services, Zensar Technologies share their expert views on the latest on enterprise modernization and how to plan for success.
Welcome back 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 tackling their biggest IT challenges.
Synopsis of the episode:Thank you for tuning into this episode with Malcom Trigg, EMEA Team Lead (Host Connectivity), Pre-Sales and Professional Services, Micro Focus. In this episode we hear Malcom share an intriguing history of the “worm".
Mainframes are here to stay. They have proven themselves to be the strong, dependable workhorses of IT. But now they must prove they can keep up with the new technologies. Hear from this expert at Micro Focus offer valuable insights for your protected and connected digital mainframe and the simple technology steps you can adopt today to meet security, privacy, and mainframe access objectives. Learn how you can protect your organization’s mainframe system by using every facet of enterprise-level security.
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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.