How Ready Are Your Applications For The Cloud? A Look At The Enterprise Application Maturity Model

As Amazon likes to call it, the cloud is the new norm. The move to the cloud is in full swing among enterprises.

When enterprise IT starts to plan the migration, they perform a detailed analysis of the application portfolio to assess readiness. Most of the line-of-business applications running on Intel x86 platform can be migrated to virtual machines. Legacy workloads that are critical to the business but not running on x86 will continue to run within the data center. Hybrid cloud securely connects the assets deployed in the public cloud to the resources in on-premises. Some of the existing applications will be modernized to take advantage of the cloud. Greenfield applications that are in the design phase are going to be built for the cloud. They exploit recent advancements in platforms and application delivery.

This article recommends a framework to classify applications for the cloud based on various attributes. It highlights three phases in enterprise application modernization.

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