Navigate the Complexities of Cloud Modernization with our Comprehensive E-book

Modernizing data and applications in the cloud can help companies differentiate themselves from the competition, break free from high fixed costs, and deliver solutions faster. If you’re considering a cloud modernization project, but need more guidance, our e-book, “Cloud Modernization and Optimization for Applications and Data,” can help. This comprehensive guide explores how cloud modernization enables you to move beyond the barriers of legacy IT, and opens the door for you to innovate and differentiate in highly competitive markets.

For many, that differentiation is more easily within reach when they modernize data and applications, optimizing and integrating them within a modern cloud environment. Legacy applications create barriers to innovation, reducing a company's ability to achieve speed and scale needed to meet modern customer expectations. Companies often have to use their budgets to address the high maintenance requirements of legacy systems instead of investing in new products and services, while cloud-born businesses challenge traditional business models.

What is cloud modernization?

Cloud modernization refers to the process of transforming and updating legacy IT systems and applications, using cloud-based solutions to improve efficiency, scalability and agility — all of which are critical to success in a digital global marketplace.

The modernization process entails migrating data, applications and infrastructure from on-premises systems or traditional data centers to the cloud, adopting cloud-native applications, technologies and practices, and optimizing the use of cloud services to meet the changing needs of the business. Cloud modernization can be complex, but you can manage costs, adapt as cloud technologies evolve, and deliver solutions faster with the right resources and strategies.

• When you include data in your application migration and modernization plans, you are focusing your company on the value, and pursuing the full potential, of its data right from the outset.

• To keep your modernization process cost-efficient, assess your business needs and take an incremental approach to modernizing your legacy IT systems.

• Balance the notion of ripping out and replacing your enterprise IT infrastructure with the idea of fixing what doesn’t work and updating components to modern and efficient standards.

• Ensure your applications are secure and compliant across the full software development lifecycle by using the right tools, expertise and processes to automatically find, analyze and remediate security and compliance gaps in real-time as changes are detected in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and deployed cloud native workloads.

Our comprehensive approach to data and application mapping can help you align your IT environment to intended business outcomes, account for talent capabilities and gaps, and realize the benefits of cloud modernization. The key is to start with a clear understanding of your business needs and then develop a strategy that meets those needs in the most cost-effective way possible.

Our e-book, “Cloud Modernization and Optimization for Applications and Data,” is designed to help you gain greater understand of the rationale behind cloud modernization, identify common challenges and how to overcome them, and measure the success of your efforts.

It’s a must-have for any company looking to move forward with a cloud modernization project and gives you strategies for managing the process from start to finish.

Download your free copy of “Cloud Modernization and Optimization for Applications and Data” today, and take the first step toward moving your company to the next level of efficiency, scalability and agility. With more than 20 years of public cloud, private cloud and SaaS expertise , Rackspace Technology is ready to help you improve cost controls and customer experiences while nurturing your ability to differentiate and advance in your market.