Though analytics technology is advancing in leaps and bounds, many traditional organizations still rely on mainframes for their most important data processing workloads. Syncsort Inc. hopes to put itself in a better position to target this segment by acquiring Cogito Ltd., a British firm that develops software for freeing information locked in big iron deployments.

The firm sells performance optimization tools that are aimed at improving the efficiency of the popular IDMS and IBM DB/2 databases for mainframes.  Increasing resource utilization is a priority in every environment, but it’s especially important for big iron users since their software tends to be quite expensive even by enterprise standards. Cogito claims that its products have helped cut costs at The Goldman Sachs Group Inc., General Electric Co. and dozens of other large organizations.

The software will complement Syncosrt’s DMX-h tool for transferring mainframe records to Hadoop and Ironstream, a more recent addition to its portfolio that is designed to move data into Splunk Inc..’s log processing platform. The latter offering is based on technology that the company obtained through the acquisition of another British firm called William Data Systems Inc back in 2014.

The financial terms of the Cogito deal were not disclosed.

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