Cloud migration is turning software applications into spoiled prima donnas. Before shifting a legacy app to a cloud computing environment, companies must endure a drawn-out, shriek-filled, costly, dress rehearsal. Refactoring and rewriting apps can become a major production. Is there a way to whittle down or eliminate refactoring and still get worthwhile performance in the cloud? ...

Cloud computing has changed just about everything in information technology. It’s made application development and operations more agile, real-time and elastic. So why are we still transporting data in the cloud with odious old lift-and-shift methods?  The enterprise must address the gravity of data in the new multicloud world, according to Joel Horwitz (pictured), senior vice president of ...

One of the hairiest challenges in multicloud computing — and there are many — is data transport. Software applications residing across disparate clouds need data. Transporting data to them can be slow, costly and questionable from a General Data Protection Regulation standpoint. The solution is redesigned data-replication technology, according to Jagane Sundar (pictured), chief technology officer of WANdisco PLC. Cloud object stores for ...

Diversify your portfolio are wise words financial advisers commonly dispense to investors. It’s also a good idea for digitally transforming businesses to diversify their goals. They can’t afford to run in place while competitors design disruptive business models. A company today should keep three goal horizons in sight at all times, according to Steven Hill (pictured), global ...

Ah, to be a young startup with zero on-premises baggage, free to play the cloud-native field. Okay, stop daydreaming. Most companies have plenty of legacy applications they can’t kill and resurrect in cloud-native form. They have to figure out where to fit them on the long, winding continuum from legacy monolith to born-in-cloud. “That’s really where ...

In a perfect world, new technologies would have labels that say exactly which business problems they solve. In the real world, organizations must make educated guesses and try them out for themselves. Accelerating that trial process can help them yay or nay different technologies quicker. Coaching clients along this trial process is one aim of IBM ...

The software-driven economy is putting the heat on data logging, metrics and tracing technologies. Traditional tools of this type aren’t quite cutting it for application-first, digital companies. A bit of downtime or poor performance for a mostly brick-and-mortar business with an app is manageable. If a company’s application is its business, they could drive users ...

How many of us are aware that we already own an augmented/virtual reality device? Smartphones ship wired for all kinds of AR/VR use cases, and advances in network computing are about to make smartphone extended-reality, known as XR, mainstream. First stop: Workplace training and productivity. Super-fast 5G networking is the main enabler, according to Armando Ortiz (pictured), ...

Vendors talk plenty about getting companies closer to customers through big data trends, but are they delivering? Can data really pry open the skulls of customers and see what they think about products and services? A new customer-experience domain is open up called the “experience economy,” according to Scot Henney (pictured, left), global vice president of ...

What does a large enterprise need most in the event of a security breach? It turns out it’s not an entire galaxy of years-old point solutions. Nor is it a bunch of confused staffers behaving like The Three Stooges. Cutting the complexity of security programs is a crucial step in effective cyberdefense these days, said Mary ...