Cloud Without Compromise

Chapter 5. Shift Left

Application modernization is a pivotal moment for information technology, clearly demarcating this generation from those that will follow. In fact, we think it’s the only way that organizations can truly capture all the value the hybrid cloud has to offer.

Using containers and orchestration, applications can at last be engineered to realize the “write once, run anywhere” paradigm. For developers, enterprise, and business of all sizes—this means truly unconstrained portability of apps and services. Being able to abstract the process of designing and building applications from the environment(s) they need to run on achieves three goals at once: it unshackles the creativity of developers (who can focus on writing better code with the best tools at their fingertips); it drastically shrinks the time to market for new cloud native (and modernized) apps; and it slashes administrative upkeep that would otherwise be needed to maintain and refactor these apps for new environments over time.

A hybrid multicloud architecture is what makes this level of application portability feasible. The question of where to run applications has shifted from “Here or there?” to one of “Here, and where else?” The plurality of vendors that a business can purchase cloud services from shows that cloud, as it exists today, has transformed from a destination into a set of capabilities. This holds especially true for vendors that offer cloud footprints that can operate across public cloud, ...