Migrate from Mainframe Environments

Customers are reducing costs by as much as 50 percent when they migrate their applications from closed IBM mainframe environments to the Microsoft Windows platform. The Microsoft Windows platform enables enterprises to remove mainframe system barriers, while maintaining the same stability with superior adaptability, better response times, and better performance.

•	Mainframe Migration Find out why organizations are turning to Windows Server System to run their mission critical applications, at a tremendous cost savings over their traditional mainframe environments.

•	Top Reasons to Migrate Off the Mainframe Read about the top reasons companies are migrating mission critical workloads to Windows Server System.

•	Performance and Scalability Learn how Windows Server 2003 has been architected to handle the most demanding workloads.

For More Information

Follow these links for tools, training, and resources to help simplify your migration.

•	Mainframe Migration Alliance (MMA) Learn how the Mainframe Migration Alliance, representing a group of companies that are focused on making mainframe migrations easier and more efficient for customers, can help your migration evaluation and execution.

•	Mainframe Migration 2005 Partner Solution Guide Download this file to review how some of Microsoft’s partners have migrated mainframe workloads to Windows. This comprehensive document reviews tools and practices that can be used to help make informed decisions about your IT infrastructure.

Solution Guides

•	Resources for Interoperability and Migration of IBM Mainframes

•	Introduction to the Microsoft Enterprise Platform for Mainframe Professionals

•	Windows Server System Reference Architecture

Featured Case Studies

•	Bertelsmann (300 KB video) View this video to learn how one of the largest media companies in the world migrated their mission critical business applications from an IBM mainframe environment onto the Microsoft Windows platform.

Online Concierge

•	Ask the Online Concierge Chat online with a live person who can direct you to more-detailed information about upgrading to Windows Server 2003.

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