There is a dawning realization that moving Mainframe compute to the Cloud is far more complex and expensive than the brochure says it is.

Moving mainframe workloads to non-MF Cloud Services Providers will on average cost you between $5 and $20 per line of code.    And you probably have millions of lines of code.

And that does not include other costs such as  additional data transfer fees, duplicate storage fees, and extra bandwidth costs that are often overlooked and unbudgeted.  

Realistically when will organizations move off the mainframe?   The simple answer is, when AI is capable enough of rewriting the code for them.   

Often one can achieve the same or better cost reductions for a fraction of the effort, by, instead, restructuring your IBM software contract/ELA pricing and terms and conditions.

In our experience, most organizations have up to 30% in contract efficiencies sitting in a corner, just waiting to be picked up, without changing a single line of code.