Chicago, IL – March 29, 2011 – Clerity Solutions, a full-service provider of mainframe migration, modernization and optimization solutions, today announced the 8th generation of its industry-leading
mainframe rehosting reference architecture, designed to significantly reduce the costs and complexities of mainframe migration and modernization initiatives. This updated framework supports the newest third-party infrastructure products and utilities required for smooth transitions from legacy mainframe systems to flexible open systems environments.
The Clerity Mainframe Rehosting Reference Architecture (MFRRA) mitigates risks and speeds up implementations by helping organizations determine how to plan, execute and manage successful migration projects. Mainframe application workloads may include tens to hundreds of third-party tools and utilities. By identifying and sourcing all the third-party products and replacement utilities necessary on a new target platform like the Clerity MFRRA, organizations can be assured that their business-critical applications will continue to run smoothly and Quality of Service will be maintained post migration.
For the past eight years, Clerity's migration solution experts have continued to refine the breadth and depth of the Clerity MFRRA. The MFRRA now supports tools and utilities such as Syncsort's DMExpress high performance data integration acceleration software, and LRS VPSX from Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc., a robust and scalable enterprise output management system for UNIX, Linux, and Windows environments. A range of application development environments, including Veryant's vCOBOL Enterprise platform for cost-effective COBOL deployment on open systems, also run within the flexible Clerity framework.
“Our partnership and technical collaboration with Clerity make DMExpress a great fit for the MFRRA,” said Josh Rogers, Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Syncsort. “DMExpress has a proven track record of helping customers accelerate and simplify mainframe application modernization initiatives. Clerity's architecture presents a smooth migration path onto DMExpress, and together we will enable customers to unlock value from their data faster and realize the benefits of mainframe migrations sooner.”
The Clerity MFRRA provides organizations a choice of best-of-breed offerings and now includes over 22 solution categories representing more than 70 software products in key IT areas such as accounting and chargeback; automation and event management; content and source code management; printing and output management; job scheduling; security; sorting; and storage management. Customers such as NYSE Euronext have leveraged Clerity's comprehensive framework to help select infrastructure tools and utilities for their open systems environments.
"Clerity continues to lead the industry with innovative solutions such as our world-class mainframe rehosting reference architecture, which takes risk out of change and provides a powerful alternative to unproven offerings which fail to address the complete picture," said Cameron Jenkins, chief operating officer, Clerity. "Together with partners like Syncsort, Clerity deploys best practices and comprehensive methodologies that safely address each customer's unique requirements while streamlining the entire migration process."
Those interested in viewing a demo of the Clerity MFRRA should contact info@clerity.com. Additional details on Clerity's end-to-end reference architecture for mainframe migration are also available at
http://www.clerity.com/products/mainframe-rehosting-reference-architecture.php.
