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The Challenge Initially, our client planned to vacate roughly 800-900 server images housing 73 applications from its on-premises data center before March 2024. A good deal of work had been done to prepare for the migration, including identifying a target data center, identifying data sources, and of required project resources, but still needed a [...]

The Challenge Our client planned to consolidate and relocate nine mission-critical applications spread across what they believed to be 85-100 servers from their existing data centers in three cities into a single new data center. Having grown by acquisition with minimal systems consolidation, client leadership needed a deeper understanding of application dependencies, risk items, [...]

The Challenge Following a recent modernization of their Payments Network, our client needed to modernize their Acquirer systems with the same success and quality. Our client had maintained and improved their Acquirer Network and associated systems on the mainframe and proprietary server systems for decades. Coupled with a recent change in data sovereignty requirements, [...]

The Challenge Today’s customer demand drives an increasing need for interaction with modern payment options, apps and products. While our client had been improving their mainframe- and proprietary servers-based Payments Network for decades, it was now time for modernization. Service in China needed to launch on the rails of the new Payments Network. Leadership [...]

The Challenge The outsourcing provider for a large manufacturer struggled to deliver its mission-critical mainframe applications across multiple CECs while facing significant cost challenges. The end client was committed to the mainframe because of the transaction intensity of the environment and its massive investment into these applications. Today, many providers struggle to find adequate [...]

Introduction As Gartner-recognized consultants in workload placement strategy (WPS), we are responsible for bringing the full range of available options to our clients. Here's some of what we're seeing in the marketplace as these options proliferate. First, Setting the Context Two questions: Where does the WPS fit into the context of other strategies covering various [...]

Client Situation and Challenge  Our client utilizes legacy mainframe-based systems to manage sensitive data for many millions of customers. They engaged GTSG to determine how best to utilize cloud capabilities in order to improve the agility and effectiveness of several key workflows.  Unlike many clients who contact us, this mainframe is not scheduled for [...]

Project description and requirements Our client, a significant health care payer, faced significant capital requirements to update the aging physical plant of its on-premises data center. At the same time, our client knew that some of its workload would eventually move to the cloud. Consequently, they engaged GTSG to answer several questions: Which workloads [...]

Structured Staff Augmentation: Improve Mainframe Performance and Availability Project Description The client is one of the top bank holding companies in the United States.  Headquartered in the South East, the client operated a primary data center in Alabama and an Active-Passive Disaster Recovery data center in Tennessee. During this engagement, [...]

The Challenge Our client is a major manufacturer who knew us from a very large mainframe infrastructure project nearly a decade ago. They had decided to migrate away from their incumbent mainframe software provider due to what they considered to be predatory renewal pricing.  The batch scheduling environment was heavily customized. It had been [...]