Decades after the impending death of the mainframe was predicted, the IBM Z platform is still the most powerful and widely used enterprise computing platform, processing 65% of worldwide production IT workloads at just 6% of overall IT costs. Mainframes continue to process 36 billion annual ATM transactions and are involved in 95% of all credit card transactions.

Today, as ever, real and perceived fears of rising mainframe IT costs are forcing organizations to consider shifting workloads to open systems platforms and the cloud. As the leading provider of mainframe, open systems, and cloud-based output management software, LRS has seen firsthand how global organizations have successfully—and sometimes unsuccessfully—rebalanced their use of various platforms to meet cost, performance, and other objectives.

Join LRS on 20 November, 2025 for an informative and engaging webinar which will discuss:

  • The relative cost, performance, security, and other attributes of the IBM Z and its alternatives
  • How recent adoption of cloud and open systems computing models change cost/value calculations
  • Ways to protect your organization against unexpected mainframe cost increases
  • The special challenges of migrating decades of data from legacy document archives

Since 1982, LRS output management experts have helped countless organizations find the right balance to minimize costs while improving the security, reliability, and performance of their document systems. Join us in this live event for the opportunity to gain both strategic and tactical knowledge to help you navigate the rough seas of enterprise computing today.

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