The COVID-19 pandemic has expedited the pace of digital transformation and cloud adoption among enterprises. Enterprises are no longer looking at the cloud from a cost-savings perspective but considering it as an investment that drives value for their businesses. North America-based enterprises expect services beyond the cloud, characterized by a customer experience-centric design, business-led transformation, and code-based infrastructure. They prefer hybrid and multi-cloud environments for complex workloads supported by agile and DevOps-based delivery. Providers are expected to assist enterprises in their end-to-end cloud adoption journeys across cloud consulting, infrastructure design/build, modernization, private cloud hosting, cloud operations, and cloud security services.
In this research, we present detailed assessments of 29 providers featured on Everest Group’s Cloud Services PEAK Matrix® – North America and categorize them as Leaders, Major Contenders, and Aspirants based on their capabilities and offerings. Each profile offers a comprehensive picture of the mainframe service provider’s vision and strategy, scope of services offered, enterprise adoption, investments, partnerships, case studies, innovative solutions, and strengths and limitations.
This report features 29 mainframe service provider profiles, each of which includes: