Chapter 5

Application migration

When companies think about how to take advantage of the cloud, the question of application migration inevitably raises its head. This subject alone could have thousands of pages written on it. In this chapter, we look at the framework Fourth Coffee used for thinking about application migration. This chapter provides tangible guidance to help you achieve efficiencies while evolving to the cloud. We include some of the tools that you can leverage to accelerate your journey.

The Five R’s

The new CIO of Fourth Coffee, Charlotte, found herself responsible for hundreds of small and large line of business (LOB) applications. Keeping these running was critical to Fourth Coffee, but it also was consuming the bulk of her ...

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