21CS Establishes Strategic Partnership with TES Enterprise Solutions

MOREHEAD CITY, NC (July 14, 2026) - 21^st Century Software Technologies, Inc. (21CS) announces a new strategic reseller partnership with TES Enterprise Solutions. Based in the United Kingdom, TES is the leading IBM Z and LinuxONE specialist in the United Kingdom whose team of former IBM mainframe professionals has spent more than a decade helping enterprises keep their most critical systems secure, resilient, and always available.

"The U.K. is home to some of the world's most demanding mainframe environments, from financial services to government," says Eddy Ciliendo, CEO of 21CS. "TES has earned the trust of that market through deep technical expertise and an unwavering focus on doing right by the customer. By partnering with TES, we're giving U.K. enterprises a local route to the 21CS portfolio, backed by people who know these systems inside and out."

“This partnership is another great example of our continued push to reimagine mainframe modernization,” states Rob Davis, Director, TES Enterprise Solutions. “Enterprises across the United Kingdom, United States and Canada will get more business value from their mission critical processes without having to leave their mainframe platform”

Under the agreement, TES becomes a 21CS reseller partner in the U.K., expanding regional access to 21CS's IBM Z software portfolio and pairing it with TES's local implementation support, managed services, and hands-on mainframe expertise. U.K. enterprises gain a single trusted point of contact for evaluating, deploying, and supporting 21CS solutions across mission-critical z/OS environments from data resilience to performance and capacity management.

This partnership strengthens the foundation for the next chapter of enterprise computing in the U.K. Together, 21CS and TES will broaden availability, deepen local support, and deliver even greater value to organizations running mission-critical IBM Z workloads.