App containerization has picked up momentum in recent years as it helps to save costs, time and resources. Resource vendors are available to assist in containerization of one or two apps, but most vendors struggle to execute a large number of app containerization projects with the same skill level and outcomes. As a matter of fact, it’s a manual approach in certain scenarios with a lot of dependencies which is not only time and cost consuming but also prone to errors and miscalculations.

Enterprises that have been running their own data centers for a number of years are skeptical of the benefits associated with cloud. One of the considerations for many enterprises is to be able to build modern applications such that the dependency on a particular cloud stack is minimal, or the interfaces that are depending on the specific cloud are abstracted well.

Lately, enterprise applications are still on-premise based, however, there is a rising trend within the majority of these enterprises to move to the cloud for leveraging the on-demand pricing and scalability. In-line with this trend, we are witnessing an increased demand to move away from perpetual licensing and adopt a SaaS model. Software product vendors are cashing in on the opportunity of transitioning their enterprise apps to be SaaS ready at break-neck speeds.

Recently, I have been tasked to migrate the existing set of Docker images from Ubuntu to RHEL UBI. The product has more than 25 images, so keeping the new image size as small as possible is one of the goals while migrating the images. Everyone is well aware of the advantages of keeping the Docker image size small for the following reasons...

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).

Plano, Texas, United States – October 22, 2019 – Last week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of Windows Container Support on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, known as EKS. With this update from AWS, CloudHedge’s enterprise clients who want to modernize their Windows applications to the cloud can now seamlessly deploy them on EKS clusters running Windows Containers out of the box.