As more businesses push forward with digital transformation projects, cloud computing has stood out as a powerful tool capable of fueling the analytics that drive new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)—two capabilities that are quickly becoming a must-have in nearly every organization. But getting to that point presents some unique challenges. Even with the benefits of cloud, there’s a reason that over 70% of Fortune 500 companies’ data is stored on the mainframe. That data is critical to their success and the mainframe delivers incredibly effective security and reliability to manage it.