Mainframe Modernization
An interview by Raincode in collaboration with Steve Read & Larry Mead from Microsoft.


The Interview
Enjoy our interview on the topic of Mainframe Modernization in collaboration with Microsoft.
Understand your current legacy estate’s options before moving to Azure
Move to a cloud environment from your legacy applications
Build equivalent or superior application SLAs in Azure
Use interoperability to enable a phased approach
Integrate DevOps to help accelerate modernization
Extend application functionality after migration
The Speakers
Steve Read
Steve Read currently works at Microsoft as a Global Black Belt. In this position, he helps customers migrate their legacy workloads to Azure. He has been at Microsoft for 24 years in various technical roles, focusing on application and database development. Before joining Microsoft in 1999, he was a developer on both mainframe and UNIX platforms in the banking, healthcare, and government industries.
Larry Mead was a principal technical program manager in Microsoft Azure Core engineering. Larry has over 45 years of experience developing mission-critical systems, starting with mainframes and mid-range systems, continuing with distributed systems, and now with cloud-based systems. Larry specializes in systems for financial services, but he also has experience with retail, manufacturing, transportation, and government systems. Currently, Larry specializes in how to develop Azure services for mission-critical systems.
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