Companies that use mainframes in their current IT operations expect to increase their mainframe spending even as they increase their adoption of public cloud, according to new survey research from leading global technology research and advisory firm Information Services Group (ISG).
The new ISG Market Lens™ Mainframe and Mainframe as a Service (MFaaS) Study finds one-third of large enterprises expect to upgrade existing mainframe processors or storage, 40 percent expect to increase capacity for traditional mainframes, and one in six expect to purchase a new mainframe over the next three years.
The ISG study was conducted in July 2024 and covered 200 executives in the Americas and Europe with decision-making responsibility for mainframe and MFaaS strategy. The results show enterprises with the largest current IT workloads expect to see the greatest increase in need across all platforms, while those with a high proportion of traditional mainframe expect to accelerate transition to MFaaS to keep pace with their needs.