Fujitsu and AWS will launch a new Modernization Acceleration Joint Initiative to enable customers across industries to drive digital transformation with fast and secure legacy modernization.
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The initiative combines Fujitsu's industry-leading systems integration capabilities with AWS Professional Services, a global team of AWS experts that helps customers innovate faster and securely with AWS services including AWS Mainframe Modernization, an elastic mainframe service and set of development tools for migrating and modernizing mainframe and legacy workloads.
Deepening collaboration to accelerate modernization efforts by customers such as Takashimaya
Both Fujitsu and AWS collaborated to optimize AWS Mainframe Modernization to support customers using Fujitsu's flagship GS21 series mainframes. AWS Mainframe Modernization provides AWS Blu Age, a refactoring solution to automatically convert mainframe applications that use legacy programming languages such as COBOL and PL/
Fujitsu and AWS have been working on the proof of concept (PoC) to modernize one of Fujitsu's mission critical applications running on its own GS21 series mainframes on AWS Cloud. AWS Blu Age successfully converts the application with COBOL code to Java and the modernized application operates exactly same on AWS Cloud.
Fujitsu's expertise in integrating customers' mission critical applications such as production management application and sales logistics application on its on-premise mainframes and UNIX servers, together with Fujitsu Cloud Managed Service, a Hybrid IT solution in Fujitsu Uvance portfolio, also helps customers optimize cloud operations after migrating mainframe applications to AWS. The two companies are already working with customers such as
As part of this collaboration, Fujitsu and AWS will support the first 40 customers in
Looking ahead, Fujitsu and AWS will also leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI technologies to accelerate mainframe modernization at scale, and incorporate automation in areas like code analysis, cloud environment management, and testing to enable cost saving, agility, resilience, and innovation.
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In this announcement, a global partnership means international collaboration between Fujitsu and AWS.
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