As enterprises accelerate their digital transformation journeys, modernizing mission-critical workloads running on IBM Power Systems presents both a strategic opportunity and a significant challenge. These legacy environments power core business functions, making their seamless integration with cloud-native ecosystems crucial for achieving operational agility, cost efficiency, and long-term scalability. However, concerns around downtime, performance optimization, and security compliance often slow down migration efforts.
In a knowledge exchange session, curated by CORE Media in association with Kyndryl, CIOs and digital leaders explore strategies for seamlessly integrating legacy environments with cloud-native ecosystems to drive agility, scalability, and operational efficiency.
Anoop Mathur, Founder, CORE Media, Mehul Bavishi, Customer Technology Advisor, Kyndryl, and Sajan Jose Padikkala, Solutions Sales Manager, Microsoft shared their perspectives on the increasing demand for resilient, scalable, and secure IT infrastructures, emphasizing the need for organizations to adopt a strategic, cloud-first approach to workload modernization to enhance agility, optimize performance, and ensure long-term business continuity.
Some of the key points highlighted by CIOs and digital leaders who attended the discussion were:
- Seamless Migration Without Disruption
CIOs discussed how enterprises can migrate IBM Power workloads to the cloud without re-platforming or refactoring, ensuring business continuity and minimizing risks associated with traditional modernization approaches.
- Enhancing Agility with Cloud-Native Capabilities
By integrating cloud-native services with IBM Power workloads, enterprises can enhance flexibility, scale resources dynamically, and optimize costs, allowing them to respond swiftly to changing business needs.
- Ensuring Security and Compliance in Hybrid Environments
The discussion highlighted how a hybrid cloud approach ensures robust security, compliance, and resilience, enabling businesses to leverage the best of both worlds—on-premise stability and cloud scalability.
The session reinforced that modernizing IBM Power workloads is no longer just an IT initiative—it is a strategic enabler for business transformation. As enterprises navigate their cloud journeys, leveraging Skytap on Azure and expert-led modernization frameworks will be key to unlocking agility, optimizing performance, and ensuring long-term business success.
