Today’s announcement is about building on that original announcement and providing tools for these companies running legacy mainframe applications to ease that transition to the extent possible.

Identity vendors Trustgenix and IdentityForge said Monday they would integrate their software to allow users to incorporate mainframe identities into single sign-on projects.

Visa, for example, uses the mainframe to secure billions of credit and debit card payments every year. In fact, mainframes process about $7 trillion in Visa payments annually, roughly equal to the ...