Migrating mission critical applications from the mainframe to Windows allows companies to reduce their cost of IT, becoming more cost-competitive, and more agile. Increasingly, organizations are replatforming Line of Business
applications such as SAP, rehosting custom COBOL applications and rewriting mainframe applications to run on Windows. In this webcast, we will review some common pains expressed by companies running mainframes, and show how moving from a mainframe to a Windows
platform can help reduce cost and improve agility and supportability without sacrificing performance, reliability or security. Discover how Windows meets or far exceeds these requirements and learn from the companies that are successfully betting their businesses
on a Windows infrastructure.
Presenter: Spyros Sakellariadis, PSA Mainframe Migrations, Microsoft Corporation
Spyros Sakellariadis has been with Microsoft since 2002, and currently runs the Mainframe Migration Alliance, coordinating activities with groups involved with mainframe migration around Microsoft. He has been in the computer
Systems Integration business for 15 years. In 1989 he co-founded Advanced Paradigms, Inc. (API), a consulting company specializing in applications development and systems integration. After Wang acquired API in 1996, Spyros became Chief Architect and VP of
Technical Standards for Wang's internal Windows network and messaging system. Later he joined USinternetworking as CTO and VP of Computer Systems in charge of product design, deployment and operations for all LOB and web applications.
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