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Google is preparing a mainframe modernization service that intends to simplify and lessen the risk of migrating mainframe workloads to the cloud - a complex process that can be frought with pitfalls. Called Dual Run for Google Cloud, the preview service was unveiled at the company's Google Cloud Next event and is claimed to …

  1. cschneid

    Move on from proprietary mainframes and innovate with Google's Proprietary Cloud

    Maybe you're fine with tightly binding yourself to Google (or Amazon) instead of IBM. But do it with your eyes open. Vendor lock-in, from the vendor's point of view, is a feature.

    The parallel test scenario seems like a good idea.

  2. An_Old_Dog Silver badge
    Windows

    Public-Cloud-Appropriate and Public-Cloud-Inappropriate Apps

    Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Some apps are a natural fit for the public cloud; others, most-definitely, are not.

    VirusTotal is a great example of a public-cloud-appropriate app.

    Confidential/propriatary data in the public cloud? Nope. You have to decrypt the data to use/modify the data, so CloudCorp X can copy that data.

    Company-critical app, e.g., payroll? If the mainframe/mini/PC you run payroll on breaks, your service contract (you do have critical-system service contracts with SLAs, right?) gets you techs on-site in an hour to fix it. If a public cloud, or some part of the Internet breaks, you can have techs fixing it in ... ehhh, who-knows-how-long?

    "The Internet" does not come with an SLA.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Stop

    If it ain't broke

    Why take IBM mainframe technology that has worked and been improved for decades and push it to the cloud?

    Based on the suggestions of cloud providers?

    The benefits being promised just aren't worth selling the soul of your company to Google. Or any cloud provider.

    1. yoganmahew
      Devil

      Re: If it ain't broke

      Yeah, but agile

  4. gedw99

    Pricey

    The google consultants cost a minimum of 125 million euro / year / person for on site help .

    I was one of them Yonkers ago.

    That’s chump change for banks and google !!

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