Mainframe Trends 2024: Understanding How Cloud and GenAI Can Modernize Mainframes

This IDC Perspective report highlights the trends in mainframe modernization and emphasizes the growing trend of hybrid IT environments, where mainframes and cloud solutions coexist to provide scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. It showcases how AI and generative AI are enabling the modernization process to become more automated and efficient, reducing risks and accelerating digital transformation. This report should inspire CIOs and IT managers to invest in modernization, embrace hybrid strategies, and leverage AI to transform their mainframe systems, ensuring agility, innovation, and sustained growth in the digital age."Adopting AI-driven mainframe modernization allows organizations to automate, optimize, and expedite their digital transformation, transforming legacy mainframe systems into innovation catalysts while mitigating associated risks." - Research Manager Cyrille Chausson, European Application Modernization Strategies Lead