This post was originally featured on TheNewStack, sponsored by vFunction. When it comes to refactoring monolithic applications into microservices, most engineering teams have no idea where to start. Additionally, a recent survey revealed that 79% of modernization projects fail, at an average cost of $1.5 million and 16 months of work. In other articles, we discussed […]
Many companies still depend on legacy applications for some of their most business-critical processing. But those apps typically don’t support the kind of technological agility that’s needed for continuing success in today’s ever-changing marketplace environment. That’s why modernizing legacy apps is an accelerating trend among leading companies. But app modernization is not easy—it requires highly […]
Companies today must be highly agile to meet ever-evolving marketplace demands. But the legacy applications many still depend on for much of their business-critical processing are ill-equipped to support that kind of agility. That’s why identifying and overcoming app modernization challenges is critically important. The Consortium For Information & Software Quality (CISQ) highlights the necessity […]
This webinar from ADTMag with guest speakers Moti Rafalin, CEO of vFunction, and KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, Senior Analyst at RedMonk, reveals some critical insights with supporting survey data that can help CIOs and architects better understand, plan, prioritize, and succeed with application modernization projects. Insight #1 – Application Modernization Must Be A Dynamic, Not Static, Imperative […]
Over the past few years, we at vFunction have been focusing on the most significant problem inhibiting the third wave of cloud adoption: app modernization. The first wave of cloud adoption included new apps written for the cloud, the second wave focused on lifting and shifting the low-hanging fruit of apps that can relatively easily […]
As the pace of technological change continues to accelerate, companies are being put under more and more pressure to improve their ability to quickly react to marketplace changes. And that, in turn, is putting corporate CIOs on the hot seat. In a recent McKinsey survey, 71% of responding CIOs said that the top priority of […]
In the recent report “Why App Modernization Projects Fail”, vFunction partnered with Wakefield Research to gather insights from 250 IT professionals at a director level or higher in companies with at least 5000 employees and one or more monolithic systems. Application modernization is not a new concept. That is, if companies are developing software, at […]
This post was originally featured on TheNewStack, sponsored by vFunction. Monoliths are mysterious entities by definition. Across thousands of global organizations, monolithic applications often standalone, side by side, like their Stonehenge brethren — architectural masterpieces of the past evoking both awe and mystery. But unlike their prehistoric equivalents, monolithic applications are integral parts of today’s […]
Why modernize legacy applications? At a time when many enterprises are still dependent on decades-old monolithic software to run their businesses, that question has become critically important for IT and business leaders in companies around the world. That’s because of the unprecedented pace of technological advancement we’re experiencing today. New marketplace opportunities—and threats—appear and disappear […]
This post was originally featured on TheNewStack, sponsored by vFunction. As digital natives and startups continue to leverage microservices, Kubernetes and cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, enterprises who are still maintaining and running business critical monolithic applications face a distinct disadvantage. Tightly-coupled, interdependent, complex Java EE or .NET applications were never […]
