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in a timely fashion. Legacy applications offer limited
flexibility and reduce the agility of teams. Traditional
applications also absorb a high proportion of information
technology (IT ) spend for maintenance, giving
organizations limited budgets to enhance the existing
solution portfolio. Cloud technology is evolving at a rapid
pace, and enterprise application architecture needs to
adapt to modern functionality that gives developers a
new mindset and tools to speed up the pace of delivering
new features and enables operations teams to play a
more strategic role in the business.
Several large enterprises with a portfolio of legacy
applications are taking steps to modernize and, ultimately,
use application development to create new digital
experiences for their customers as a competitive market
advantage. Cloud-native architectures help organizations
become more agile, reduce time to market for new
Migrating workloads to the public cloud, if well planned,
offers an opportunity for environments to be quickly
replicated in production-like settings, and rapid testing
of new features enables developers to accelerate
innovation. The benefits of adapting applications to
new delivery methods are so great that enterprises are
on a continuous application improvement cycle. The
pace of innovation is magnified when workloads take
advantage of new cloud features such as functions as
a service, containers, and microservices. The adoption
of these managed services has a big impact on
organizational operations — eliminating the need to
patch, update, and scale application infrastructure.
Monolithic applications have been built with traditional
infrastructure and software architecture for decades and
saddle organizations with a solution portfolio that is
unable to respond to business demands for digitization
IDC OPINION
The usual first step of cloud adoption
typically includes lift and shift of workloads
from on-premises datacenters to the
public cloud. However, businesses can
derive more value from a cloud migration
if they can take complete advantage of
emerging cloud technologies.