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managed mainframe services

Elevate performance with an optimized mainframe infrastructure

DXC Managed Mainframe Services


Offload the complexities of managing your legacy systems to focus on technology innovation

Seamlessly optimize your mainframe infrastructure to ensure maximum uptime, security and performance with DXC Managed Mainframe Services. By outsourcing mainframe management to DXC you’ll have access to support from our team of highly experienced experts. Your business will reduce operational and overhead costs — including those related to IT training and staffing — and the risk of expensive failures. You will be better able to center your attention on opportunities to be more competitive, drive business innovation, improve customer service and grow your company.  


What's included

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Continuous oversight activity

Ensure smooth and efficient mainframe operations with non-stop observation.
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Infrastructure and data defense

Be confident that threats and vulnerabilities will be aggressively dealt with, and that data confidentiality is assured.
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End-to-end optimization

Comprehensive and tailored solutions are planned for driving powerful performance from the start.

Features

DXC has a footprint of 47 data centers across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. We continuously monitor mainframe systems to proactively identify and address potential issues before they impact business operations, ensuring maximum uptime and reliability. 

Tuning, capacity planning and implementing best practices ensure optimal resource utilization and efficiency.

Security is a top priority for DXC. Our robust practices are entrenched into our wider offering with a “security at the core” approach to all our mainframe management customer projects. We implement access controls, encryption, intrusion detection and regular security assessments. Our team follows industry best practices and compliance standards to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of your data, providing you with peace of mind in the security of your mainframe infrastructure.  

DXC’s managed backup and recovery processes safeguard data and ensure business continuity in the event of system failures or disasters.

Our services accommodate changing business needs, allowing our customers to easily scale resources up or down without the constraints of traditional hardware limitations.

DXC’s exclusive technology converts mainframe and AS/400 languages to Java, at 50% lower cost. 


20% savings
on average software spend
140 IBM z/Series
mainframe platforms under administration
200+ mainframe migrations
370,000 MIPS
14,400 app transformations
using repeatable processes

Who can benefit

Consider DXC Managed Mainframe Services for your business if:

  • Your large enterprise does not have all the in-house skills required to manage your complex IT Infrastructure and high transaction volumes, and ensure stringent security and compliance monitoring.
  • Your medium-sized enterprise faces challenges such as resource constraints, maintaining operational efficiency and rising IT costs.


Why DXC


Leading businesses choose DXC for our global partner ecosystem, expertise in offloading the complexities of IT management and focus on delivering value fast. Here's what you can expect when you work with us:

Management expertise

DXC has 5+ decades of experience managing mainframe infrastructure and applications, and a team of over 5,600 skilled professionals — with an average 19+ year tenure —  dedicated to executing our mainframe services. 

 

Industry-specific solutions

DXC addresses specific challenges and compliance requirements for various industry sectors. 

 

Full-scope services

DXC brings to the legacy systems table batch operations, storage and database management, transaction processing, middleware, disaster recovery, PCM and networking, and server management, planning and security. 



Partnerships


DXC delivers Managed Mainframe Services alongside leading partners.

Unlock the power of big data for your business strategy and leverage the watsonx platform.
Harness open source solutions at scale to modernize and transform applications.
American Airlines and DXC: Mainstreaming the mainframe for modernization

 

To transform development practices, DXC Technology and American worked together to embrace distributed code and introduce DevOps to its mainframe-based Flight Operating System (FOS) application, a mission-critical system for flight schedules and crew management.


Commonly asked questions about Managed Mainframe Services

DXC's Managed Mainframe Services support a wide range of mainframe systems, including IBM zSeries (z/OS), IBM iSeries (AS/400) and Unisys ClearPath systems. Our team of experts has extensive experience and expertise in managing diverse mainframe environments, ensuring that we can effectively support your specific system requirements.

Whether you operate in highly regulated industries such as finance or healthcare or have specific performance or availability requirements, we tailor our customizable services to align with your objectives. Our team works closely with you to understand your business requirements and ensure that our managed services meet or exceed your expectations.

DXC brings our robust DevOps frameworks and DXC Platform X™ solution to deliver optimized managed services for mainframe systems in addition to integrating automation and data-driven insights for enhanced efficiency.