Managed SPs: Adapting Business Models to Support Modernizing Mainframes with Managed Cloud Services

This IDC Market Perspective discusses different approaches that enterprises consider when using managed SPs to support modernization of mainframe environments as part of managed cloud services and the impact in modernizing mainframes on future opportunities for managed SPs and how managed SPs should best position themselves for success in this market."As enterprises look to modernize their mainframe environments using managed SPs for which a significant portion of buyers indicate their interest in migrating mainframe capabilities to public clouds, managed SPs need to adapt their business models," says David Tapper, program VP, Outsourcing and Managed Cloud Services at IDC. "Critical investments that managed SPs must make to ensure future opportunities resulting from the modernization of mainframes using managed cloud services include establishing robust governance centered on system-centric services, incorporating a multicloud management platform, implementing a delivery infrastructure for hybrid clouds, utilizing public cloud mainframe capabilities as competitive advantage and differentiation, leveraging the strengths in supporting multicloud operations, bolstering integration and technical architecture capabilities that span diverse technologies, and leveraging AI to support application modernization services for key areas."