New joint initiative will enable customers across industries to drive Digital Transformation with fast and secure legacy modernization.
Fujitsu Limited and AWS have entered into an expanded partnership to accelerate the modernization of legacy applications on AWS Cloud by launching a Modernization Acceleration Joint Initiative.
The initiative will provide assessment, migration and modernization of legacy mission critical applications running on on-premise mainframes and UNIX servers onto AWS Cloud.
Megumi Shimazu, Corporate Executive Officer, SEVP, Head of Global Technology Solutions, Fujitsu Limited, said: “By combining AWS’ broadest and deepest cloud-enabled technologies with Fujitsu’s years of mainframe and UNIX server expertise, we can deliver fast, secure modernization, allowing customers to focus on accelerating innovation across industries.
“As the next step in modernization, we will leverage a range of Fujitsu Uvance offerings to contribute to empowering our customers to achieve greater sustainability in their businesses.”
Uwem UKpong, VP, Global Services, AWS, said: “We look forward to working with Fujitsu to expand our joint delivery capabilities and help customers gain insights from mainframe data in the generative AI era.”
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/I to Java with support from AWS Professional Services.
This joint engineering effort helps customers using Fujitsu’s GS21 series mainframe reduce the time and cost required for migration and modernization.
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 major Japanese department store chain Takashimaya on their legacy migration, as a pilot initiative.
As part of this collaboration, Fujitsu and AWS will support the first 40 customers in Asia, Europe and North America as well as other key regions using Fujitsu’s GS21 series mainframes to migrate by 2029.
The two companies intend to expand the scope of the joint initiative to support customers using Fujitsu UNIX servers and mainframes from other companies in the following phase.
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.
