By Micro Focus on Feb 12, 2021 1:34PM Key considerations for IT leaders. Many organisations face the choice of either replacing or modernising legacy IT. For some, modernisation makes more sense, but what are the key factors to consider? To explore this, Micro Focus ANZ Sales Director Brent Butchard spoke to iTnews about mainframe-to-cloud IT modernisation. iTnews: Why are customers considering modernising old systems when they could just replace them?. Brent Butchard: No-one has money to waste and the stats on the risk of failure of starting from scratch tell their own story. Modernisation means incremental change and ongoing improvement, and many CIOs are sensibly adopting this model and looking at smarter ways of doing so.