
With this solution, enterprises and public institutions can deploy an environment that can host mainframe workloads on Google Cloud (GCP) with high security, high availability, elasticity, and robust system management.

The Blueprint also installs a fully functional demonstration application (BankDemo) on Enterprise Server that uses COBOL, CICS, Job Control Language (JCL), Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) files, and Performance and Availability Clusters (PACs). The Blueprint allows customers to perform an automated deployment of Enterprise Server based on best practices inside a new VPC or existing VPC. Google Cloud provides a high-performance, reliable and high-capacity infrastructure at a low cost that is serving thousands of customers in virtually all industries and geographies. Micro Focus has successfully partnered with customers to deliver thousands of successful mainframe modernization projects – each allowing the customer to modernize their application and run it on the platform of their choice. When combined with Google Cloud infrastructure, Enterprise Server can provide the quality of service and continuous operations that large mainframe workloads require. Micro Focus Enterprise Server is a scalable production engine for securely executing mainframe applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Server Blueprint now available for Google Cloud And the experience of customers that have moved their applications to the cloud already is that they can then modernize these business systems to take advantage of cloud native services without compromising the value these applications provide.

The advent of mainstream cloud computing offers a genuinely new way of looking at performance, cost and scalability that can address the challenges that many customers are facing with mainframe computing today. But finding the talent to maintain and operate these workloads is increasingly more difficult, the business demand for faster innovation, the downward pressure on costs and the need to remove mainframe data data lock-in is driving enterprises to look for alternatives. For decades large enterprises have developed and operated their most critical workloads on the mainframe due to the scalability, security and performance demands of these business systems.
