Cloud migration tools ease application cloudification
December 6, 2014
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Trevor Jones.
A move from the data center to the cloud can be costly and labor-intensive, but a number of vendors offer specialized tools and services to help IT pros cloudify their applications. Large companies like Accenture to boutique firms like Cloud Technology Partners Inc. give IT shops a simpler path to cloud, and as more enterprises move to the cloud, these types of services will gain popularity.
Migration vendors say the key is to review customers’ entire portfolio, including product lifecycles, to determine a roadmap for moving to cloud. Some older applications with high dependencies will likely have to remain on-premises, while virtualized applications will be the easiest to transition…
While startups and green field ventures can have their entire workloads on cloud-native applications, that’s not the case for enterprises with thousands of applications and reputations for following IT trends rather than leading them. Determining the value in such a move isn’t always clear cut, and it can depend on a variety of factors, said Paul Burns, president of Neovise, LLC, an IT industry analysis firm based in Fort Collins, Colo…
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