Red Hat Certified App Modernization Tools Accelerate Journey of Enterprise Apps from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to OpenShift Plano, Texas, United States – November 20, 2019 – CloudHedge Inc, announced that its automated app modernization tools – Discover™, Transform™ and Cruize™ are now Red Hat Container Certified.

Yes, you read it right! The journey of existing apps on-prem to cloud-native has been automated with the use of CloudHedge.io. Allow me to share different steps taken for automation and which scenarios are a better fit. If you have 100s and 1000s of applications and are looking to assess them for cloud readiness, it can be overwhelming! The mix of applications, the infra, the network, and the geographic spread does make the effort of assessment overwhelming.

CIO’s of large enterprises are aware that Digital Transformation cannot succeed without a good strategy for handling legacy applications’ modernization. However, 56% of CIO’s surveyed recently, acknowledged that, while there is a prevailing sense of urgency to modernize and digitally transform their business; the big-bang approach to migration/modernization poses significant risks to ongoing business functions.

With support for Windows 2008 shrinking, most enterprises are looking for options to move their apps onto newer versions of Windows (2016 or 2019). Some enterprises are okay paying through their nose for extended support, the majority cannot afford it! Some enterprises started migrating these apps ahead of time, however, some are stuck on which option to choose (re-write or re-platform).