Vince Re contrasts the traditional "buy everything, use some of it" enterprise software model with a modular, app-store approach: granular selection, pay for what you use, and combine specialized components into exactly the integration you need. He explains why modular architecture also lets a vendor ship new capabilities faster than monolithic, all-in-one development.

In this episode of Skyward Data, the podcast from VirtualZ Computing:

- How app-store-style pricing changes enterprise software buying — paying for a handful of capabilities instead of dozens

- Examples of modular components working together, such as the Splunk connector, the data-movement multiplexer, and cloud storage

- Why modular architecture accelerates innovation compared with monolithic platforms

- The advantages of granular selection: lower cost, faster implementation, and flexibility to change later

- How customers assemble custom mainframe integration by combining specialized capabilities

This modular philosophy runs through VirtualZ Computing's no-code portfolio for enterprise mainframe data: PropelZ (moving and replicating IBM Z data to the cloud, proven at 56,000 records per second), Lozen (live in-place data access), FlowZ (cloud storage for backup and archive), and Zaac (cloud and SAN as native z/OS storage) — four products you deploy and combine, with no code and no homegrown pipelines, rather than one suite you buy whole.

Topics: enterprise software pricing, modular architecture, mainframe integration, IBM Z, z/OS, connectors, no-code data integration, software procurement, hybrid cloud.

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