Episode 3: Application Modernization in the Hybrid Cloud
In this episode, KJ Burke and Glenn Gerrard from CDW and Nate Schutta, Developer Advocate, VMware Tanzu, discuss managing competing priorities while moving to the cloud, avoiding vendor lock-in and the benefits of app modernization to Canadian organizations.
Featured in this Episode
KJ Burke is an innovative and driven IT infrastructure architect with solid interpersonal and communication skills. He is currently the Principal Technology Strategist at CDW Canada, with over 20 years in the IT industry and plenty of experience in planning and deploying technology to improve business processes and drive measurable value.
Glenn Gerrard is the Head of Enterprise Sales, federal government, Ontario healthcare and Atlantic at CDW Canada. He is responsible for a regional team focused on designing, deploying and managing IT-based solutions that meet the evolving business needs of CDW’s customers. Gerrard’s expertise leading advances in technology and customer support are instrumental to strengthening CDW’s relationship with key enterprise and government clients.
Nathaniel T. Schutta is a software architect focused on cloud computing and building usable applications. A proponent of polyglot programming, Nate has written multiple books and appeared in various videos. Nate is a seasoned speaker regularly presenting at conferences worldwide, No Fluff Just Stuff symposia, Meetups, universities and user groups.
In this episode, we discuss…
- What’s driving application modernization for organizations
- Identifying which legacy applications to move into the cloud – how much refactoring makes sense?
- The state of app modernization in Canada
- Avoiding mistakes around vendor lock-in, cloud security and backup
- Best practices that are driving success with app modernization, and the benefits that organizations are seeing
- The benefit of common platforms and doing the architecture one time versus many times
- Finding ways and technologies to bring development teams and operations teams together
- How is app modernization going to impact organizations over the next five years?
Findings from our Cloud Report
86% of organizations that move to the cloud will repatriate some workloads due to security, performance and cost.
