Shalini Manokaran
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The world is changing and you ought to be faster, not bigger, to at least be a part of this competitive world. With advancements in technology infrastructure and increasing expectations of the customers, Digital transformation is not an option but a priority for the organizations! Digital transformation propels businesses forward irrespective of the size of the organization. Whether you are a startup or a global enterprise, digital transformation helps you scale improvements and drive while fully embracing the digital age.
Why is digital important for businesses?
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Business leaders have increasing pressure to drive innovation and apparently App modernization is the area of focus for enterprises. To succeed, businesses must evolve and embrace digital transformation through application modernization.
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Application modernization strategies that can help you scale businesses faster!
The common types of App modernizatio
1. Rehosting or “lift and shift” method
With this, you can transfer the servers or the software from a legacy environment to the cloud infrastructure without much modification in the code, features, or functionalities. The data is migrated to the cloud and the business logics are preserved as such.
If you have an application built using a modern tech stack but have it hosted on the on-prem legacy environment; you’d want to migrate that application to AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. In that case, you need to use the ‘Lift and Shift’ method for rehosting your application in the cloud platform.
2. Replatforming method
With this method, you move an application from the existing cloud to a new cloud environment without making any changes to the application. It helps you scale faster and increases the productivity of the developers.
If you wish to migrate your application from AWS to Azure or vice versa, then this method will be helpful.
3. Refactoring method
In this, you take a legacy application and optimize the code to make it run better in a new cloud environment. You can remove technical debt and improve non-functional attributes with this method. If you have an application built on a legacy platform using monolithic architecture and want to migrate to microservices, micro frontend architecture deployed in AWS or cloud, then this method will be used.
4. Retire or Replacing method
When you no longer need an application in the cloud, you have to decommission it. Having an application that is of limited or no value needs to be replaced rather than migrated.
Trends in app modernization
1. Multi-cloud environments
Using more than one public cloud service provider to run the application
2. Hybrid- cloud environment
Using public clouds along with private clouds and on-premises infrastructure
3. Containers and orchestration
Packaging, deploying and managing the app for a more decoupled approach
How will app modernization add value to your business?
The decision-makers of any organization today understand the complications of legacy modernization and the significance of selecting the right technology platform for their key business requirements.
However, organizations are still putting efforts to maintain the existing applications consuming most of the resources leaving no room for innovation. This has caused an increase in the adoption of legacy modernization that will reduce the maintenance cost, and will also enable investments in innovation-driven approaches. Organizations that understand the value of app modernization and the importance of making the move now, will reap the most benefits and will certainly lead in the industry.
With app modernization, you can eliminate inconsistent implementation models, look beyond the existing developments, focus on solving real business problems, and establish a process that can support agile execution.
The closing notes!
For building modern, digital-ready application environments, you need a partner who is dedicated to bringing a complete transformation to your legacy applications. AVASOFT can be your best partner, that can help your organization combat Application modernization challenges seamlessly while migrating the legacy applications into the multi-cloud or hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Determining which application and workloads to migrate first is crucial. We can help you plan the migration, help you throughout and walk with you in the app modernization journey and ensure a successful app modernization process.
