In the last couple of decades, businesses have transformed from monolithic to service-oriented to microservices architecture. As a matter of fact, infrastructure has moved from physical servers to virtual machines to cloud and delivery models have changed from waterfall to agile to DevOps. This paradigm shift is being hailed as App Modernization.

“Gartner predicts that by 2022, more than 75% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production.”

If you want to put yourself ahead of your competition, you must improve and lower operating costs as much as possible. And, as business owners, you should always be on the lookout for ways to reduce the operating costs without sacrificing the quality of your offering. The same is true with legacy apps! I guess it’s on the higher side for legacy apps because they are not only outdated but can also hamper innovation at all fronts.

We can unequivocally state that the Containerization tide is here to stay. Organizations are evaluating when they must opt for it. Whether they should consider containerization on-prem or on-cloud. The pertinent question that they must ask themselves, though, is how to do it best and stay afloat in an efficient manner in the long run. Post COVID19, the industry is adapting to new changes, and containerization of your legacy apps is one of them.

Maintaining legacy applications can be an affliction that saps up energy, time, and resources. Application modernization remains fashionable and involves refactoring, re-purposing, or consolidating legacy software to align it more closely with current business needs and add business value. Traditional methods for modernizing applications include rewriting existing application code to a more modern programming language to salvage parts of the application that might still have value.

While the secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new, adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win. Enterprises that overlook modernization are sure to fail in fulfilling critical compliance and security problems thus, endangering both, their businesses and customers.

In our series of blog posts based on Automated Containerization, here is another quick read on why Enterprises should invest in containerization of applications instead of Lift-and-Shift approach. Legacy applications can be slow and expensive to maintain. If you use the Lift-and-Shift approach to migrate applications to cloud is relatively inexpensive, but ongoing operating costs can be exactly the opposite. The contention is that applications perform and evolve relative to their environments.