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Cloud and application modernization trends

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Organizations are increasingly moving toward cloud-based environments and modernized applications to overcome the limitations of aging physical infrastructure and legacy systems. Initial drivers for this transition include rising maintenance costs, limited computing capacity, increased downtime risks, and the need to support remote workforces. As the focus shifts toward specific implementation strategies, modernization involves updating architecture, platforms, or code rather than simply replacing systems. Common approaches include rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, rearchitecting, retiring, or retaining workloads. Effective transitions require triaging assets based on business criticality to address issues such as slow performance, traffic spikes, and the risks of unsupported infrastructure. Recent developments emphasize that cloud migration should be viewed as an enabler for making proprietary data “discoverable, governed, and portable,” rather than merely a final destination. To facilitate this, some providers are promoting structured, modular migration paths. For example, HCL Software is utilizing a four-phase process—evaluating usage, assessing components, modernizing features, and deploying workloads—to its HCL Mosaic SaaS platform. Such incremental, modular approaches aim to potentially reduce total cost of ownership by 25–30% compared to traditional deployments.

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