Case Studies
IBM has been working to bridge the mainframe skills gap by creating and running the IBM Z Global Skills Accelerator Program to help companies across the world build a sustainable mainframe workforce. At PSR, our new employee Drew Grone is a Global Skills Accelerator success story. Drew loves to share his experiences at PSR and…
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Challenge: Aging, soon-to-be unsupported tape infrastructure, but limited capital funds to modernize Objective: Affordable virtual tape solution Industry: Manufacturing Solution: PSR’s Mainframe Virtual Tape as a Service Bundle moved the customer from a CapEx to an OpEx financial model while providing a modern virtual tape infrastructure. Scenario: Committed to mainframes, this manufacturing client was looking…
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Challenge: Disaster Recovery plan looked OK … on paper. Objective: Business Resiliency through an affordable DR plan that actually works Industry: Technology Solution: PSR’s Disaster Recovery service Scenario: This technology company’s mainframe drives its business. It delivers data and analytics services to customers across the globe. If the mainframe were to go offline for any period…
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Challenge: Finding expert mainframe skills Objective: Staff the systems programmer position to match actual business requirements Industry: Finance/Insurance Solution: PSR’s client staff augmentation supported the gradual transfer of system programming responsibility to PSR. Scenario: The planned retirement of this finance and insurance company’s system programmer presented the CIO with the challenge of finding a replacement…
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Challenge: One last mission-critical application prevented the decommissioning of the mainframe Objective: Retire the mainframe Industry: Public Sector – Higher Education Solution: Move the application to PSR’s hosted mainframe. Scenario: Many years into an effort to retire the mainframe at this major university, one final mission-critical application running on the mainframe had still not been…
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