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Modern mainframe and cloud transformation

Reinventing the mainframe: agile, cloud-connected, future-ready

Modernize the core, power the future

Mainframes have long been the foundation of enterprise IT. As new technologies emerge, mainframes have evolved alongside them – as a secure, high-performance backbone powering mission-critical workloads with unmatched reliability. While the mainframe remains a strategic asset, enterprises are actively adopting new platforms, technologies and processes such as cloud, Gen AI and DevOps to transform their mainframe estate so it can coexist in a hybrid IT landscape.

Is your mainframe optimized for agility, cost-efficiency and innovation? Are you planning to modernize your mainframe by leveraging cloud-native capabilities – all while remaining compliant with government regulations?

That’s where our experts can help.

As a leader with European heritage, we deliver end-to-end services from running your mainframe efficiently to transforming and modernizing your mainframe applications, as well as helping you adopt cloud platforms while minimizing risk, ensuring compliance and optimizing your mainframe landscape – all aligned with your business priorities. Our global, enterprise-grade mainframe services help you modernize, integrate and accelerate transformation – whether you’re streamlining existing workloads, connecting the mainframe to the cloud, or modernizing your applications. With the help of our Gen AI-powered tooling, we enable intelligent automation, seamless hybrid integration and AI-native innovation across your IT.

Our expertise spans traditional and modern programming languages, from cloud integration to application transformation – leveraging cloud-native and Gen AI capabilities. With our deep technical insight, we help you reimagine the future and transform your mainframe to meet it head-on.

A reliable workhorse for critical IT operations

Mainframe

68%

of the world’s IT workloads are handled by Mainframes, yet they account for only 6 % of IT costs.

Source: Mainframe turns 60 with no plans for retirement | Network World

Market Growth

6%

Market Growth Rate expected during 2025-2032

Source: Mainframe Market Size, Share, Growth & Report 2025-2033

Market Growth

12,5%

expected CAGR for the Mainframe Modernization Services Market during 2023–2031

Source: The Insight Partners – Mainframe Modernization Services Market Growth by 2031

Artificial Intelligence

79%

of IT executives believe mainframes are essential for enabling AI-driven innovation and value creation

Source: The future of AI on the mainframe | IBM

Innovation

60+ years

of continuous innovation driven by the mainframe

Source: The future of AI on the mainframe | IBM

Our capabilities

No matter where you are in your modernization journey, we help you manage, optimize, modernize and transform your mainframe estate – reducing risk, accelerating growth, and advancing large-scale transformation so you’re ready to activate the power of AI across your enterprise. We drive steady innovation on the platform while also delivering stable global mainframe operations and as-a-service offerings. Our approach goes beyond operation, exploring new paths to evolve the mainframe in the most efficient and technologically advanced way.

With a global footprint and deep expertise across the full spectrum of mainframe services, we are uniquely positioned to support enterprise-scale transformation. Backed by deep cloud, mainframe and infrastructure knowledge – enhanced through our Mainframe Academy – we continuously evolve our proficiency. In collaboration with strategic partners and leveraging AI-enabled modernization and automation, we deliver end-to-end services from our dedicated mainframe hubs and cloud modernization and migration centers.

From mainframe to cloud – we are your trusted partner at every step of your transformation journey – ensuring compliance, resilience, and innovation at scale.

Mainframe application modernization

We accelerate your journey to the public cloud and maintain operational continuity, migrating critical workloads while preserving mainframe strengths in a hybrid environment. To deliver secure, efficient transformation, we use our proven framework and a suite of Gen AI-powered tools to modernize mainframe applications to the cloud of your choice – covering the full spectrum of approaches.

Mainframe as a Service (MaaS)

We run your workload within our secure, optimized mainframe hubs on IBM systems, providing a resilient, scalable and secure foundation for your hybrid IT strategy. With a strong focus on hybrid environments, sustainability and risk management, our solution supports your modernization journey by enabling operational agility, data sovereignty and compliance.

Mainframe optimization services

We continuously optimize and modernize the platform to support new web-based business processes in hybrid environments. This helps break down silos between data and applications. We integrate mainframe infrastructure with the cloud and apply AI to streamline mainframe performance. The result is a cloud-like experience for developers and agile teams.

Mainframe operations services

From supporting your in-house team to fully managed services, we deliver operational excellence, service management, and continuous innovation on your behalf – to ensure your systems run reliable, efficient and compliant.

How we make an impact

Lumen

Lumen

Modernize mainframe to support Lumen’s most critical applications

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The mainframe-as-a-service solution, offers Lumen a ‘cloud-like’ mainframe scalability that provides everything from computing power to service management and innovation. Consumption-based charging allows Lumen to adjust the service as its capacity needs change.

Harnessing the Power of We

Dive deeper

  • Report

ISG Mainframe 2025 report

  • Blog

Is it still worth investing in mainframe computing?

  • Blog

The mainframe resource drain: Threat or opportunity?

Accolades

Analyst Recognition

Atos ranked as a Leader in ISG’s report Mainframes – Services and Solutions in Europe in 2025 – fourth year in a row

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Analyst Recognition

Information Services Group names Atos as Leader in mainframe to cloud transformations 2023.

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Award

Atos achieves AWS Mainframe Migration Competency status.

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