Hybrid and Multicloud Management

Strategy 3: Migrate Applications More Easily Among Clouds

The difficulty of migrating applications between different cloud environments is a significant concern for many enterprises. In a recent survey of cloud users, 73% said application portability was an issue, noting:

Organizations are also facing significant challenges when moving applications....What is preventing them from moving more applications to public cloud is the need to re-architect or re-platform applications when moving them across clouds (75%) or the complexity of the migration (71%).

This strategy explores the challenges around application migration and mobility, and suggests a plan of action that provides the ability to move applications more freely.

Migration and Portability Challenges

Many of the migration and portability challenges that enterprises encounter involve traditional enterprise applications, but challenges can arise with cloud native applications as well.

Traditional Enterprise Applications

Most enterprises have hundreds of applications—both commercial and in-house—that are based on traditional development methods. In many cases, it doesn’t make sense to go through the significant effort to modernize these applications, but you may still want or need the ability to run them in a public cloud rather than—or in addition to—on-premises. The associated challenges can include:

Multiple dependencies

Many applications have dependencies on services and capabilities that are available in your datacenter ...