Heirloom Computing Inc. today announced a new partnership with Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider CloudBees to speed the transition of mainframe workloads to the CloudBees PaaS. With the partnership, Heirloom will help IT managers lower costs and modernize their COBOL-based mainframe workloads by deploying them to the cloud, utilizing Heirloom Elastic COBOL and the CloudBees Platform.

Deploying Heirloom’s Elastic COBOL on CloudBees is simple – watch this short video for a demo: http://youtu.be/4QmKvt0L9zo

Heirloom Computing is on a mission to efficiently modernize the world’s business-critical enterprise software applications. Heirloom seamlessly migrates legacy systems to private and public cloud computing infrastructures, enabling IT departments to reap the cost benefits of cloud computing and satisfy user demands for applications accessible via web browsers and mobile devices.

“Heirloom Computing is very pleased to partner with CloudBees to enable enterprise-level COBOL and CICS workloads to run on the CloudBees platform,” said Heirloom Computing CEO Gary Crook.

“We’re thrilled to have Heirloom Computing as part of the CloudBees Partner Ecosystem,” said Andrew Lee, vice president, business development, CloudBees. “This partnership enables us to deliver a comprehensive solution to enterprises seeking to move legacy code to the cloud.”

For more information about Heirloom Computing and how Heirloom can help you transition mainframe workloads to the cloud, please visit www.heirloomcomputing.com. For more information about CloudBees, please visit www.cloudbees.com.