Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) with Data Center Platform Consulting Services - Case Study
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4AA6-5485ENW, May 2016
By migrating its applications and moving to
a new platform, TASE could select the right
platforms for the right workloads at the right
price, while consolidating its IT environment
and adopting newer technologies and
increasing IT security. But migrating the core
platforms and moving crucial applications
can be a complex and potentially disruptive
undertaking, so TASE selected HPE
services to help the organization develop IT
strategies that minimize risk and maximize IT
investments so it could achieve its migration
goals safely and eiciently.
“It was very important for us to find one
supplier that could provide a full integration
project, including the hardware, the operating
system, and the migration project itself,”
explains Herstig. “We approached Hewlett
Packard Enterprise (HPE) because we were
familiar with HPE’s capabilities and could get
the benefits of HPE’s expertise at dierent
steps in the project.”
HPE had previously helped TASE move
to a new datacenter, and oered a holistic,
adaptive approach that enables smooth
mainframe migrations and simplifies the
migration process. HPE also oered proven
experience and a track record in migrating
critical mainframe applications, as well a low-
risk, high-value approach to migration.
By partnering with HPE, TASE has been
able to ensure business continuity without
disruption. This has allowed TASE to
implement application migration while
avoiding the need to make changes to the
business logic. Legacy applications were
migrated to HPE ProLiant DL 380 Gen8
Servers running Linux, and all Adabas
databases and programs written in Natural
were migrated to Linux. HPE oversaw the
rewriting of COBOL programs into the C
language, and all JCL was rewritten to run as
scripts.
HPE conducted extensive parallel testing
of mainframe-based and server-based
applications to ensure that there would
be no discrepancies while running various
production workloads over time, and
conducted extensive test case development,
execution, and automation to ensure the
quality and consistency of the new IT
environment before cutting over in early
2016. After only 20 months, the project
was successfully completed and HPE
educated and trained TASE development
and operational sta on the use of new
development tools and Linux.
All of the organization’s mission-critical
systems are now running on Linux, and IT is
now able to increase security, mitigate risks,
and streamline operations and management
by supporting the same environment for
trading and back oice applications. The
dependency on mainframe specialists
is eliminated, allowing TASE to increase
operational agility. This transformation was
completed on time and within budget, and
management expects to continue to meet
cost reduction and TCO objectives for the
migration.
Herstig concludes, “I’m very happy and
satisfied with HPE and the way they ran the
integration project, and I recommend HPE
to other organizations involved in such a
complex migration project.” This migration
supports TASE’s open system standards
strategy, and TASE expects a full return on
investment for its migration within less than
three years.
Learn more at
hpe.com/services/platformconsulting
hpe.com/info/migratemainframe
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