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Despite widespread predictions that mainframes would die out, the platform is still relied on by organizations worldwide, in many cases with more than half of enterprise applications calling on it to complete transactions. The problem is, these organizations are struggling more and more to cope with this legacy infrastructure amid IT and staff transformations.

To evolve mainframe dependencies alongside developments in new compute environments, ASG brought the cloud to the mainframe, which enables a more integrated, comprehensive approach to infrastructure modernization. With ASG-CloudFactory/MF’s self-service and automated workflow functionalities, organizations can shorten time-to-service, accelerate mainframe request fulfillment and achieve complete status transparency. Also, because of its mainframe workflow and script libraries, organizations now have a knowledge repository on hand, so even non-experts are able to manage mainframe requests and provisioning, eliminating skill-shortage issues from the retirement of the mainframe generation.

ASG-CloudFactory/MF is a fixed software solution suite comprised of ASG-CloudCockpit, a workspace to access applications, services, data and the self-service catalog; ASG-CloudStore, an Amazon-like service request management platform; and ASG-CloudRobot, a workflow designer and automation engine. ASG also plans to create an open CloudFactory for Mainframe community where companies and partners can share their workflows and scripts to promote more widespread knowledge sharing around mainframe management best practices.

CloudFactory for Mainframe is also available through the channel.