A no nonsense discussion of 21st century IT
Very often the infrastructure teams decide to move to cloud for cost reasons or because they need to close their data center. But they forget that applications need to be migrated or the new environment has no purpose. Application teams are not measured along the same criteria as infrastructure and they do not want to …
In part 1 of this podcast series I described a specific company and highlighted its application portfolio. I then spoke about what should be done with the applications labeled digital, the ones that support the business in its evolution to digital. In part 2, I looked at the tactical applications, the ones required by the …
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I've highlighted in previous podcasts the importance of analyzing your application portfolio in depth and plan the migration of each application carefully. Let's get practical this time. I've reconstructed, from actual use cases, an enterprise application portfolio of 1000 applications. Let's use this portfolio to discuss how we should look at application migration for each …
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Many companies have built over the years a portfolio of applications using a variety of technologies. Acquisitions have resulted in the inheritance of multiple applications performing similar functions, making the collection even larger and more heterogeneous. I've even seen Windows 2000, Oracle 5 databases and other very old environments. There is no way those can …
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Many companies have established a cloud first strategy. Many clients tell me they are moving to the cloud. But are they doing that for the right reasons? Are they thinking through all aspects of why it makes sense to go to the cloud? Why ask the question? Transforming applications and infrastructure is a complex endeavor, …
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Yet another interesting question to ask. What applications can I retire in my application portfolio? How do we identify which applications can be retired and potentially replaced by others? When reviewing a portfolio this is a fundamental question that needs to be addressed, but it often isn’t. So, let me propose you a simple but …
This entry was originally published on the CloudSource blog in November 2011 One question that keeps haunting me is, “Is the cloud all about transforming the way existing applications are running and experienced by the user or should cloud be focused on innovation and the support of new activities?” Ultimately, I believe it will be …
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This blog entry was originally posted on March 18th, 2015 In many migration to cloud conversations, the term “lift-and-shift” appears. But what does this term actually mean and what is the user expecting? Ultimately what the user wants, to my understanding, is to migrate an application or applications from the existing environment to a new …
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