Case Study: Fortune 100 Telecom Company reduces mainframe costs with CloudFrame Relocate

Telecom Company Reduced Mainframe Application Costs with CloudFrame RelocateTM

A Fortune 100 telecom company sought to reduce its high mainframe costs and modernize a critical legacy COBOL billing application. An initial rewrite project was over budget and behind schedule. To achieve immediate savings and help fund the long-term modernization, the company turned to CloudFrame and its Relocate product.

Using CloudFrame Relocate, the customer shifted costly COBOL workloads from the mainframe's general processor to a lower-cost cloud platform for non-production and to the mainframe's zIIP processor for production. This solution required no data or integration changes and ensured 100% functional equivalency. CloudFrame enabled the company to achieve $4 million in annual recurring savings, which it then used to fund its broader application replacement initiative.