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Modernizing Mainframe Data Access with Progress Software(56 characters.)


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Why does data access — not application code — stall so many enterprise modernization initiatives? In this episode of Skyward Data, the podcast from VirtualZ Computing, VirtualZ joins Progress Software to explore how organizations modernize data access across hybrid environments without disrupting the systems that run their business.


Dennis Bennett, Principal Sales Engineer at Progress Software, joins VirtualZ Co-Founder and CTO Vince Re and VirtualZ Co-Founder Dustin Froyum to discuss how trusted enterprise connectivity and modern data movement work together to deliver secure, high-performance data integration. The conversation centers on transforming complex legacy data structures — including mainframe formats like VSAM — into modern, SQL-ready data that can power cloud databases, analytics platforms, and AI initiatives.


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


- Why data access has become the real bottleneck in enterprise modernization

- How hybrid architectures support modern analytics without disrupting production systems

- The role of high-performance enterprise connectivity in scalable data integration

- How legacy mainframe data structures like VSAM are transformed into SQL-ready data

- What secure, high-performance integration looks like across a hybrid IT environment


On the VirtualZ side, this is powered by PropelZ, VirtualZ's no-code tool for moving and replicating IBM Z mainframe data — including VSAM — to cloud databases and analytics platforms, proven at 56,000 records per second, mainframe to cloud. PropelZ is part of VirtualZ Computing's no-code portfolio for enterprise mainframe data, alongside Lozen (live in-place data access), FlowZ (cloud storage for backup and archive), and Zaac (cloud and SAN as native z/OS storage).


Topics: enterprise modernization, mainframe data access, VSAM, SQL, Progress Software, hybrid cloud, data integration, cloud databases, no-code data integration, IBM Z.


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