CDW Canada Tech Talks

Application Modernization in the Hybrid Cloud

Episode Summary

In this episode, KJ Burke and Glenn Gerrard from CDW and Nate Schutta, Developer Advocate, VMware Tanzu, discuss managing competing priorities while moving to the cloud, avoiding vendor lock-in and the benefits of app modernization to Canadian organizations.

Episode Notes

• What’s driving application modernization for organizations?
• Identifying which legacy applications to move into the cloud – how much refactoring makes sense?
• The state of app modernization in Canada
• Avoiding mistakes around vendor lock-in, cloud security and backup
• Best practices that are driving success with app modernization, and the benefits that organizations are seeing
• The benefit of common platforms and doing the architecture one time versus many times
• Finding ways and technologies to bring development teams and operations teams together
• How is app modernization going to impact organizations over the next five years?