Enterprises have been implementing digital transformation initiatives for over a decade, but even now, most of those efforts fall short. What gives? Digital leaders frequently focus the effort on software. Software, however, is not the point of digital transformation. Such transformation is indeed software-powered, but even more so, it is customer-driven. Customer-driven change as broad […]
ChatGPT, the most advanced conversational AI chatbot yet publicly revealed, is taking the world by storm. Millions of ordinary people are using it, and most are highly enthusiastic about its ability to create human-like written content that helps them in their daily lives. Software professionals, too, are taking note of this new kid on the […]
As technology continues to evolve, businesses are increasingly turning to microservices and containerization to improve their IT operations. Container management is the process of overseeing and maintaining the containers that hold the microservices in a distributed system. It enables the efficient deployment, scaling, and management of microservices. By understanding container management, you can better navigate […]
Part 4 in the Uncovering Technical Debt Series from Intellyx, for vFunction. [Check out part 1 | 2 | 3 here.] We’ve dug deep into our technology stacks, uncovering all of the legacy artifacts and monoliths that we could find from past incarnations of our organization. We’ve cataloged them, rebuilt them to modern coding standards, […]
This post was originally featured on Forbes For organizations focused on digital transformation, existing monolithic application architectures present a major obstacle to modernization initiatives that have become a top priority for CIOs and CTOs alike. Monolithic application architectures stand in the way of today’s highly adaptive, cloud-first, forward-looking approach to delivering faster, better and more efficient […]
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 […]
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 […]
The vFunction team is proud to receive the 2022 Digital Innovator Award from Intellyx, the first and only analyst firm dedicated to digital transformation. As an industry analyst firm that focuses on enterprise digital transformation and the leading edge vendors that are driving it, Intellyx interacts with numerous innovators in the enterprise IT marketplace. To […]
This post was originally featured on The New Stack, sponsored by vFunction. Today, over 80% of enterprise applications are not cloud native, meaning that many companies with a surplus of legacy applications are not benefitting from the business agility and the engineering velocity they once had. Approaching an ambitious and long overdue modernization project can be […]
