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DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Sept. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Ensono, a leading hybrid IT services provider, in collaboration with Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company today launched jointly commissioned research conducted by Forrester Consulting to understand the future of mainframe in enterprises. The study involving 153 IT decision makers at director level or above across the USA and Europe, found that 50% of organizations will continue with mainframe and increase its use in the next two years versus just 5% planning to decrease or remove mainframe activity.
The research found that while mainframes continue to be considered a critical piece of infrastructure for the modern business, it was surprisingly found to be an important element of modern technologies like AI and Blockchain. Enterprises are now taking a hybrid approach to their infrastructure, migrating some applications to the cloud while maintaining certain business-critical applications on-premises and on mainframes.
While traditional applications and workloads (ERP (48%), finance and accounting (45%), HR management (44%) and ECM (43%)) remain the mainstay of the mainframe, 25% of those surveyed stated that mobile sites and applications were being put into the mainframe; 27% were...