Digital transformation can be empowering on an organizational scale. It can help transform the customer experience, boost innovation, increase agility and flexibility, trim operational expenses, and steer decisions rooted in data.
However, the path to this transformation often has obstacles in the form of outdated IT infrastructures and applications. To genuinely embrace digital transformation, where enterprises fully harness digital tools like artificial intelligence, automation, interconnected devices, and remote collaboration and communication platforms, a comprehensive cloud modernization strategy is imperative. This strategy involves a harmonious interplay of personnel, procedures, and technology.
Multiple forms of modernization, including infrastructure, platforms, applications, and business processes, as well as the promotion of cultural and workplace modernization, can collectively contribute to achieving comprehensive digital transformation. Notably, the progressions made in cloud technology and its associated innovations wield noteworthy influence over each of these modernization dimensions.
Despite the potential gains offered by cloud and modernization, it also brings multiple challenges that need to be planned carefully. The purpose of this white paper is to detail the modernization approach and activate one of the approaches as per the business needs.
In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses are faced with a critical imperative: the need to modernize their existing systems and seamlessly migrate to cloud environments. This amalgamation of modernization and cloud migration presents a multifaceted challenge that demands careful consideration and strategic planning. The problem at hand encompasses a range of complexities, from overcoming legacy constraints to ensuring a smooth and efficient transition that leverages the full potential of cloud technology.
Organizations that did not realize the anticipated advantages of cloud technology might have faced challenges due to attempting a fragmented approach. It is essential for synchronized modernization endeavors to be in harmony with the business and cloud strategies of the enterprise.
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A modernization strategy integrated with cloud technology involves a structured plan to transform existing echo systems, processes, and infrastructure using cloud-based solutions. This strategy combines the benefits of modernization with the scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency offered by cloud computing. Here's a comprehensive strategy for modernization with the cloud.
With all these good things any modernization/cloud migration brings complexity and challenges around.
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Hence before planning, it required deep thinking and planning. The following factors need to be considered.
By considering the above points we need to make decisions to go with modernization and migration plans for each application one by one by seeing the larger business objective.
Customer experience and expectations are changing at a faster rate; hence IT continues to be under intense pressure to increase agility and speed up delivery of new functionality to align with growing business needs.
To adapt to this rate of change, modernization and cloud migration is a must for enterprises. Most enterprises across industries are modernizing existing applications by considering cloud native and CAAS (container as service) as a first choice. Enterprise also leveraging microservice architecture or they are in the process of decomposing monoliths application into microservice to gain benefits provided by cloud/containerization architecture. To natively support scalability k8s (Kubernetes) being heavily utilized now a days.
Shrwan Kumar
Extensive experience in cloud computing, design, and development of Enterprise applications. He is an AWS Certified Architect and Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect with 18 years of hands-on IT experience in the area of architecture, design, development & delivery of IT Solutions for large and international businesses.