Federal IT leaders must improve access to mission-critical data while managing budgets, workforce constraints, and security requirements. This paper examines incremental mainframe modernization in U.S. government environments, with attention to hybrid cloud, Zero Trust, governance, and operational continuity.
Explore approaches to secure data access, report modernization, log analysis, and virtualized storage through Lozen, PropelZ, and Zaac. The paper provides a planning framework for connecting established mainframe workloads with modern analytics and cloud services while considering the compliance obligations of federal agencies.
