Infrastructure Modernization
Organizations have multiple choices for selecting the infrastructure and applications that suit their needs. Over the past twenty years, customers have shifted from developing their systems to adopting vendor-provided enterprise systems and applications. Various technologies have shown their resilience and helped in the modernization of applications and infrastructure over a period of time. These include enterprise systems such as SAP, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, and Oracle; platforms such as JAVA, Weblogic, and Tuxedo; databases such as Oracle Database, MS SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, and NoSQL databases; operating systems such as Microsoft, Solaris, and RedHat Enterprise Linux; and hardware from Sun Microsystem, Dell, and HP.
In the last decade, customers had the option to transition from a physical to a virtual infrastructure in their data centers to save capital as well as operating expenses. The Cloud Infrastructure, which enabled IT operations to modernize and migrate their infrastructure to a remote data center run by Amazon, was the most significant change in this era. Other companies such as Google and Microsoft soon followed with their cloud services. The Cloud Infrastructure promised to reduce costs and provide features such as Just-in-time provisioning, pay-as-you-go, scalability, and automation platforms for monitoring, observability, and more. Customers pursued the assessment of different cloud providers and estimated the return on investment of cloud migrations as well as the potential benefits of moving their application(s) or data center to the cloud infrastructure.
Most of the customers who moved their workload to the cloud infrastructure preferred to stick with one cloud vendor, hoping to get discounts for long-term services. However, they soon faced challenges like service disruption and performance vs cost tradeoffs with the cloud infrastructure. Also, the fierce competition among cloud providers to offer reliable and scalable services, and the emergence of other hyper-scaler cloud platforms such as IBM and Oracle Cloud contributed to the demand for more resilient cloud solutions that do not depend on a single vendor, but rather leverage the benefits of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.
P&F Solutions Digital transformation consulting services are focused on creating future state enterprise architecture by offering customer-centric consulting. We have partnered with Key Cloud Hyper Scalars to boost our multi-cloud assessment strategy against key metrics to assist customers in their infrastructure modernization journey. If you are looking forward to an assessment of the current landscape, please contact us for a consultation at contact@pafsolutions.com to assist with an assessment, pricing, migration, and operation of your future state.
Authors:
Praveen Singh is a Digital transformation leader and the Founder of P&F Solutions.