{"id":24861,"date":"2022-07-05T08:11:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=24861"},"modified":"2022-07-06T20:45:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T00:45:53","slug":"fedex-to-shut-down-the-final-20-of-its-mainframes-in-the-next-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/fedex-to-shut-down-the-final-20-of-its-mainframes-in-the-next-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"FedEx To Shut down The Final 20% Of Its Mainframes In The Next Two Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"arIndex_1\" data-ar-index=\"0\">FedEx CIO Rob Carter stated that the company will shut down the last 20% of its mainframes over the next two years.\u00a0The move, which is part of FedEx&#8217;s digital transformation, means that the company will now use its cloud-native architecture to operate the business.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_2\" data-ar-index=\"1\">Carter pointed out that the move to a zero data center and zero mainframe environment will save the company US$400 million annually.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_3\" data-ar-index=\"2\">Other digital transformations the company is working on include optimizing data insights that will help the company tap new revenue streams, investing in AI and automation, and leveraging the company&#8217;s cloud architecture to unlock siloed data and provide more visibility internally and externally.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_4\" data-ar-index=\"3\">FedEx will also invest US$2 billion in the new initiatives and expects a return of US$2 billion per year as a result of increased efficiency.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_5\" data-ar-index=\"4\">&#8220;Inventory placement optimization is a critical example of what happens when you share this kind of data, and harnessing their data help us to continuously tune our network. This is the network effect that we&#8217;re achieving through the power of big data,&#8221; Carter said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_6\" data-ar-index=\"5\">The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciodive.com\/news\/fedex-cloud-mainframe-big-data\/626426\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Newsletter%20Weekly%20Roundup:%20CIO%20Dive:%20Daily%20Dive%2007-02-2022&amp;utm_term=CIO%20Dive%20Weekender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CIODIVE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FedEx CIO Rob Carter stated that the company will shut down the last 20% of its mainframes over the next two years.\u00a0The move, which is part of FedEx&#8217;s digital transformation, means that the company will now use its cloud-native architecture to operate the business. Carter pointed out that the move to a zero data center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,19,57],"tags":[525,225,275],"class_list":["post-24861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-cloud","category-companies","tag-ai","tag-cloud","tag-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24861"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24969,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24861\/revisions\/24969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}