with CDWT by Modernizing Applications on Azure
A smartphone with no or obsolete apps is comparable to a coffin. A cloud platform without end-to-end connection and synchrony with corporate apps and systems might result in a digital transformation experience that is inconceivably stunted. Leading cloud platforms, such as Microsoft Azure, provide hundreds of native tools, technologies, solutions, and apps to enhance specific, custom business capabilities. This, along with ever-evolving client requirements, has prompted businesses to fine-tune, re-architect, and regularly enhance/innovate (in many instances in real-time) their on-premise IT infrastructure and legacy corporate applications on the adopted cloud environment. Again, it should come as no surprise that corporate application modernization is widely seen as a necessary strategic step for realising the full, intelligent benefits of cutting-edge cloud platforms. This segment of the enormous global cloud market will reach a staggering 32 billion dollars by 2025.
On the Microsoft Azure cloud, CDWT, the world’s biggest end-to-end application-focused cloud managed service provider, offers a breakthrough application modernization experience. Rehost, replatform, replace, re-architect, or rebuild corporate apps on Azure, such as ERP, CRM, CMS, and Database Management Apps. Integrate CI/CD processes, adopt customised and loosely linked microservice architectures and containers, incorporate serverless functions, and deploy to the environment of your choosing. Modernized applications with hyper-agile performance and flexibility, industry-leading availability and scalability, intelligent security, and uninterrupted resilience. Accelerate your organization’s process lifecycles, including DevOps and app go-to-market deadlines, for the highest return on investment. Build creative capabilities of the highest calibre with sophisticated AI application and cognitive capabilities driven by the Microsoft Azure Cloud.
The Unmatched Benefits of Application Modernization on the Azure Cloud
Common Challenges
CDWT's Benefits
- Excalating costs for application upgrades
- Insufficient universality
- Reduced application performance, scalability, and adaptability
- Disruptions to operations, endangering business as usual
- Delays in Application Problem Resolution
- Lack of end-to-end knowledge in application administration
- Multiple application-related dangers
- Compliance and regulatory difficulties
- Disaster Restoration failures and improper management of the infrastructure
- Limited Capabilities for digital transformation. Generation of a flood of data with limited analytical skills
Escalating Costs for Application Upgrades
- Obtain outstanding, near-real-time application update capabilities with a flexible pay-per-use approach by modernising your apps on the Azure cloud.
- Rehost, replatform, replace, re-architect, or rebuild corporate apps with ease to take advantage of Microsoft Azure's sophisticated features.
- Embrace cloud-native designs for management agility and automate operations to save costs at every level of the application management lifecycle with Azure App Service.
Insufficient universality
- Gain a single dashboard overview and management for all updated Azure Cloud apps, including private IT environments, private clouds, multiple adopted clouds, and third-party business systems (SAP, Oracle, Infosys, Databases)
- Utilize Azure native connectors and APIs to provide seamless integration across diverse, complicated environments (applications, backend systems, and data).
Reduced application performance, scalability, and adaptability
- Rapidly deploy web applications and APIs on Azure Cloud. Effortlessly build with.NET,.NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python, or PHP, running in containers on Windows or Linux.
- Scale application performance needs, achieve 99.95% high availability, and achieve hyper agility. Utilize Azure AutoScale and Azure Front Door to perform traffic routing and load balancing.
Disruptions to operations, endangering business as usual
- Zero interruptions to cloud-based backend application infrastructure, including servers, networks, storage, and computing. Improve Go-to-Market schedules
- With a specialised Migration Factory strategy, maintain business as usual and save transition expenses. Utilize Azure App Service Migration Assistant to migrate.NET web applications to the cloud with minimal friction in three automated processes.
- Secure application DevOps using microservices, container, and serverless architectures on Azure. Adopt Kubernetes on Azure and the Azure Container Registry, as well as streamlined process monitoring with Azure Monitor and Azure Application Insights.
Delays in Application Problem Resolution
- Specialized experts ensure that all application migration, modernization, and administration difficulties are resolved with simplicity, assuring monitoring and application support 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
- Automatically generate warnings and conduct corrective measures. With Azure Service Diagnostics, you can conduct intelligent, interactive live troubleshooting.
Lack of end-to-end knowledge in application administration
- Dedicated full stack development, engineering, maintenance, risk management, application migration, modernization, and delivery specialists functioning as an extension of the client team eliminate any application management resource concerns.
- Obtain comprehensive strategic, advisory, and consulting services for end-to-end application modernization and management.
Multiple application-related dangers
- Enhance application security by integrating specialised security frameworks and architectures into your organization's DevOps and ITSM.
- Achieve multilayered enterprise-grade application security across code, delivery pipelines, app runtimes, and databases. Utilize automated technologies for detecting, managing vulnerabilities, and encrypting. Develop apps with extensive telemetry, actionable alerts, and complete visibility
- Utilize innovative cloud-native security solutions Azure Monitor, Azure Sentinel, Application Insights, and Azure App Service Diagnostics. Azure Web Application Firewall, Azure Firewall, and Application Gateway protect application perimeters.
Compliance and regulatory difficulties
- Applications supported and hosted on compliant-ready architectures, platforms, and systems, such as local regulations, data residency laws, and international standards - PCI-DSS, NESA, SAMA, GDPR, FedRamp, MSA, IRAP, GxP, CSA, OJK, MEITI, and RBI. The worldwide standards include ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 20000, ISO 22301, SOC1, and SOC2 certifications.
- Utilize cloud-native specialist tools, such as Azure Governance and Azure Policy, to administer and conduct compliance checks across deployed systems. Enhance threat prevention and compliance monitoring with Azure Security Center
Disaster Restoration failures and improper management of the infrastructure
- Protect your Business Continuity Planning with an automatic Enterprise Applications Recovery-backup, strict RTO/RPO, DR Drills, or a cloud-based DRaaS solution.
- To reduce catastrophe risks, host your apps and backend data centre assets, including SaaS applications, web applications, and mission-critical business systems, in your nearest location or across many countries. Select the Azure hosting location closest to you.
- Construct tailored mobile workforce apps that provide fully customizable, cloud-hosted, and collaborative remote development environments.
Limited Capabilities for digital transformation. Generation of a flood of data with limited analytical skills
- Improve application performance, responsiveness, interactivity, and user experience using innovative automation technologies, such as RPA. Streamline CI/CD with Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Atlassian Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Docker Hub, and Azure Container Registry.
- Maximize intelligent automation in application operations by using completely contemporary application development platforms with automated logging, scalability, availability, and predictive alerts.
- Utilize cloud-native and proprietary AI and Data Analytics technologies to liberate business insight and data-driven decisions. Construct application innovation capabilities with the powerful Azure Cognitive that includes intelligent content search, cognitive computing features, unified API administration, and customised capabilities with Personalizer.
CDWT is proud to be one of the few
worldwide partners to have nine Azure Advanced Specializations.
SAP on Azure
SAP on Azure
Azure WVD
Azure WVD
Analytics on Azure
Analytics on Azure
Azure Threat Protection
Azure Threat Protection
Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure
Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure
Networking Services on Azure
Networking Services on Azure
Linux and Open-Source Database Migration
Linux and Open-Source Database Migration
Microsoft Azure Modernization for Web Applications
Microsoft Azure Modernization for Web Applications
Windows Server and SQL Server Migration
Windows Server and SQL Server Migration
Intelligent, End-to-End Application Modernization Services from CDWT on Microsoft Azure
Although enterprise apps are crucial to day-to-day corporate operations, managing them end-to-end is a monumental undertaking. The challenge has been further exacerbated due to fluctuating market trends, evolving customer needs, and high maintenance costs hence requiring enterprises to adopt flexible applications that could be willfully customized, updated, and enhanced in real-time. A single operational hiccup, flow delay, or outage on-site might have devastating effects on daily operations and end user experiences in the face of such dynamic high-performance requirements. Such extensive needs for app modernisation might be met most effectively in the cloud, such as Microsoft Azure.
With CDWT's comprehensive Azure application modernization services, you can restructure, develop, deploy, and scale corporate applications across diverse IT-delivery environments with industry-leading availability, agility, and resilience. Adopt a cutting-edge cloud-native backend architecture and modernise middleware-OS-platforms-development environment frameworks and libraries using Azure's fully managed modern application development platform (Azure App Services). Integrate disparate systems and platforms with multi-purpose APIs, streamline complex app database management, infuse CI/CD with DevOps to accelerate Go-to-market timelines, and embrace world-class multi-layered app security for end-to-end protection.
Utilize cutting-edge process automation tools, products, and advanced Azure native solutions such as Azure App Services, Azure Container Registry, Azure Cognitive Services, Personalizer, Azure Application Insights, App Service Diagnostics, Azure Monitor, Azure Content Delivery Network, Azure Autoscale, and Azure Front Door, Azure Functions, Azure Web Application Firewall, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Active Directory, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Policy to administer-advanced cloud-based applications. Gain a single pane of glass to easily manage your complex, disjointed IT infrastructure. Avail 24/7 application support for end customers.
It is Still Possible to Invest in a DR Strategy on the Azure Cloud
REPURCHASE (Drop and Shop)
This phase entails minimum changes to transition to a cloud-based system. The business abandons its on-premises software licence and migrates to the cloud-based version of the same software, effectively repurchasing the licence.
REHOST (Lift and Shift)
Identify the apps and current workloads that need to be lifted and shifted to the cloud environment. The migration utilises cutting-edge native tools and support services to migrate the current on-premises application stack to the cloud.
REPLATFORM (Lift, Change, Shift)
This procedure employs the same methods as the migration of on-premises platforms and applications to the cloud ecosystem. In this case, however, adjustments are performed to optimise the cloud performance of the platforms.
REFACTOR/RE-ARCHITECT
Existing on-premises programmes, databases, and workloads are extensively overhauled, often at the coding level, in order to migrate them to the cloud. This phase or strategy requires the greatest effort and expenditure. In this phase, it is usual practise to divide monolithic structures into microservice designs for improved cloud performance. As the programme is modified to fit the cloud's natural environment, such an approach guarantees that the greatest capabilities of the cloud are used.
RETIRE
This method includes the identification of duplicate apps or platforms that might result in needless cloud load/overprovisioning, hence driving up operating expenses. Under such situations, businesses may decide to retire and replace the application with a cloud-friendly one.
RETAIN
Businesses may choose to keep certain old on-premises apps operational if they give high performance and are related to crucial initiatives. In such a scenario, the remaining core systems may function in the cloud, while the maintained on-premises applications may work independently or in tandem with the cloud applications through APIs.
A Comprehensive Analysis of the CDWT Application Modernization Services for Microsoft Azure
- Migration of Applications to Azure & Cost Management
- Management of Industry Applications on Azure
- Database Management on Azure
- Integration of Applications on Azure
- DevOps on Azure
- Mircoservices on Azure
- Architecture without servers on Azure
- Microsoft Azure Application Security & Event Management
- Azure Application Architecture with Compliance
- Azure Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning
- Azure Automation & Intelligence
Utilize CDWT's industry-leading Transfer Factory methodology to simplify the migration of corporate and SaaS application workloads, resources, and PaaS platforms to Azure. With this assembly-line methodology implemented by cutting-edge automation processes and administrative experts, you can achieve a high ROI, rapidly deploy/provision cloud infrastructure, simplify on-demand provisioning of cloud stacks, and integrate with your existing ITSM processes in a seamless manner. Azure native solutions such as App Service Migration Assistant enable the migration of.NET, PHP,.NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python-based apps, Linux and Windows-based app clusters and containers to the Azure cloud in three completely automated phases. Implement a lean application lifecycle environment across the whole enterprise, including Azure CI-CD integrations, DevOps and DevSecOps enhancements, and SysOps procedures. Obtain industry-leading application performance, hyper agility, operational scalability, and continuous availability.
With the power of Azure cloud-native architecture and its fully managed enterprise modernization platform, Azure App Service, CDWT helps to integrate, streamline, and unlock hyper performance for key industrial and SaaS applications, PaaS platforms in banking, healthcare, e-commerce, enterprise operations, and more. Avail end-to-end modernization, implementation support for SAP ERP, Oracle, SAP Full Stack, Infosys Finacle, Intellect, Magento, opentext, industry applications on Azure Cloud Platform. Integrate with virtualized networks inside the Azure App Service Environment, incorporate containerization-serverless-microservice capabilities, and deploy enterprise-grade security and compliance for web applications. Using Azure Autoscale and Azure Front Door, you can achieve a high availability of 99.95% and smoothly scale applications worldwide with minimal disruptions.
On the Azure Cloud, it is simple to host, manage, administer, and protect databases for mission-critical corporate ERP, CRM, CMS, and associated applications including on-premises, Edge, and IoT environments. CDWT supports SQL OpenSource Database programmes like MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL; SQL commercial database systems like IBM DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, SAP ASE, and SAP HANA; and NoSQL Open source database apps like MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, redis, etc. Azure Personalizer enables individualised digital transformation capabilities. Fully administered cloud-based databases provide excellent data availability, scalability, and quick access to cutting-edge analytic tools. Integrate world-class perimeter security technologies, such as Azure App Service Diagnostics and Web App Firewall, for superior data security.
Integrity of apps and their backend architectures and databases is a prerequisite for achieving frontend operations that are seamless across various IT environments. Via applications migrated and upgraded to the Azure cloud, reinforce application integrity with APIs and Connectors that serve several purposes. The latter facilitates the effortless synchronisation of disparate applications with other databases, applications, systems, platforms, and backend infrastructure as needed. In addition, improve remote workflow management by implementing flexible, customised, and fully managed remote development environments, remote workforce apps, and more.
Modernizing your DevOps infrastructure is essential for accelerating the product delivery lifecycle. Embrace an automated, agile, and highly scalable ecosystem across the Software Development Lifecycle by using DevOps practises supported by and driven by Microsoft Azure. Align your DevOps environment across diverse application landscapes by integrating important technologies like as containerization with Docker and Kubernetes for Azure, orchestration, and Infrastructure as a Code. Utilize Cloud4C's main toolkit experience in platform architectures, configuration, CI/CD pipeline, coding, systems development, automation, and testing to enhance your cloud-based DevOps and application operations. With the Azure advantage, develop applications on the language of choice -.NET, PHP,.NET Core, Node.js, Java, and Python; bring in containers and frameworks-libraries of choice running on Windows or Linux; improve developer productivity; and streamline CI/CD with Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Selenium, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Atlassian Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, and Azure Container Registry. Utilize Azure native automation technologies to accomplish hyper-agile app release and time-to-market without sacrificing availability, scalability, user experience, or continuity. Integrate security by design into the DevOps application lifecycle: DevSecOps.
Monolithic architectures, which have powered legacy systems and software for decades, are increasingly being replaced. Due to their unsurpassed rigidity, conventional architectures make it difficult for engineers to detect code faults or implement significant changes. With the cloud revolution driving updated development environments, deconstruct historical systems and create new software in a powerfully modularized manner: abstracted components devoted to executing important functions, woven into a central whole with the aid of innovative tools. Such modularized, self-sufficient software parts make it simple to identify faults, push updates, and automate the delivery process for quicker provisioning and operation in live situations. This also helps with load distribution and traffic management. Individual server functions executing each microservice segment may be individually scaled up or down depending on traffic needs without impacting the overall performance of the programme, hence eliminating server overprovisioning and lowering costs. Utilize Azure-native technologies to develop, deploy, and operate microservices, including Azure Service Fabric, Azure Service Fabric Mesh, Azure Functions, Azure Event Grid, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Container Instances (ACI), and Azure API Management.
If microservices are believed to revolutionise how applications and software are produced or constructed, Serverless or Functions-as-a-Service assures that the same are executed in an agile and transformational manner on the cloud. Once the produced code is transferred to the cloud using this method, the microservice modules or functions are given separate servers/fire only when the specific function is invoked, hence eliminating idle running or overprovisioning. Under this design, the company just pushes the modules to the cloud environment, and the cloud environment handles the rest, including assigning servers to execute the modules. Adopt the Functions-as-a-Service methodology (Azure Functions environment) for the app modernization process, which includes frontend applications, middleware, OS, libraries, frameworks, APIs, and virtual machines, among others. Integrate microservices design and containerization in order to maximise FaaS on Azure. Using serverless event processing, design and construct the architecture of an event-driven application that consumes data streams, processes them in the cloud, and synchronises the results back to back-end databases with zero data loss, zero disturbance, and ultra-low latency.
With a multitude of cloud-native technologies, over 40 Security Controls, dedicated Security Operations Center managed services, and cybersecurity specialists, you can safeguard your application assets end-to-end. Utilize the sophisticated Managed Detection and Response platform for automated management of threats and malware. Reduce Mean Time to Detect and Response across all touchpoints, provide comprehensive endpoint protection, and use sophisticated data analytics to acquire distinctive security management insights. Utilize cloud-native solutions, such as Azure Active Directory, to provide 24/7 Monitoring, Identity, and Access Management. Secure perimeters with Web Application Firewall and Application Gateway, and accomplish sophisticated threat prevention with Azure Sentinel, Azure Security Operations Center, etc. Adopt innovative preventative maintenance capabilities (Self-Healing Operations).
Obtain a worldwide compliant-ready application architecture with CDWT's application managed services for Azure Cloud, including strict adherence to local-national-global laws such as PCI-DSS, NESA, SAMA, GDPR, FedRamp, MSA, IRAP, GxP, CSA, OJK, MEITI, and RBI. The worldwide standards include ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 20000, ISO 22301, SOC1, and SOC2 certifications. Easily comply with data residency and local requirements with secure in-country hosting. Using Azure Policy and Azure Governance, enforce severe compliance checks on your application assets. Compliance difficulties should never again impede the functionality of your applications or the advancement of your firm.
Streamlined, integrated Disaster Recovery tools and solutions to assist organisations in achieving near-zero operational outages. Advanced automated backup, recovery, and disaster management systems with high RPO/RTO criteria for your applications and associated assets. Construct your bespoke DR plan on the Azure cloud using DRaaS architecture, adopt customised solutions for corporate operations, simplify protection of data storage platforms, and choose periodic DR drills for maximum effect. Utilize geo-native Azure hosting for the highest levels of application availability, scalability, performance adaptability, and continuity.
With CDWT's turnkey hyperautomation solution, you can uncover the appropriate business processes for automation, collect data from even unstructured sources, automate difficult operations, and strategically expand automation throughout your organisation, among other capabilities. With their experience in process analytics and automation, our certified automation specialists have assisted a variety of firms in automating essential operations and transforming their businesses.
Utilize proprietary cutting-edge AI, Big Data, Analytics, RPA, and automation technologies and solutions to modernise processes, workflows, and data and adopt intelligent, data-driven decision-making skills. Choose from hundreds of innovative cloud-native tools and business apps powered by Azure cloud backend to simplify asset management, workflows, compliance, governance, and more. Unlock cutting-edge innovation capabilities with Azure Machine Learning and Azure Cognitive Services, decrease latency with Azure Content Delivery Network, enable AI-powered contextual searching, enhance usability with Personalizer, and manage all APIs via a single interface. Azure's fully managed contemporary development platform offers automatic logging, scalability and high availability, extensive telemetry, actionable alerts, and complete insight into applications and underlying systems. Streamline manual redundancies and automate repetitive procedures to optimise the ROI and resiliency of corporate systems.
In CDWT's Application Migration and Modernization Factory Methodology
- Exploration Workshops
- Industry- and region-specific guidelines
- Examining applications at risk and loopholes
- Risk and security evaluation using prioritisation
- Cost-Benefit Analysis with Costs for Risk Mitigation
- CDWT Endorsement Priorities
- Creating a plan for modernising
- Approaches to app migration and transformation
- Migration plan and target deployment environments
- Plans for Development and Testing
- Impact Plan and Project Milestones Documentation
- Budgeting
- Acceptance by stakeholders and funding release
- Project Launch
- Configure Cloud Platforms
- Quality Checks
- Checks for Safety and Authorization
- Health and Functionality Verification
- Status Report to Migration Teams
- ROI Validation
- Deactivate Technologies
- Project Acceptance
Why Implement CDWT's Application Migration and Modernization Factory?
Why do CDWT’s Application Modernization Services on Azure?
Twelve or more years as one of the most trusted Managed AWS cloud services and Application Modernization providers in APAC, MEA, and the Americas.
As a committed AWS Partner, the world's leading Application-focused, high-end managed services provider with AIOps-driven AWS Managed Operations.
24/7 Support supported by more than 2,000 cloud-certified professionals (including Kubernetes and DevOps specialists) who are proficient with ITIL, ITSM, and CoBIT delivery processes, and 26 Centers of Excellence.
Zero Friction AWS Application Modernization Model with industry-leading Application Migration Factory methodology, 25000+ migrated Apps, and Databases.
4000+ business clients, including 60 of the Fortune 500 and 5 of the top 20 global banks
The successful implementation of Public, Private, Hybrid, Multi, and Community AWS Cloud systems in 26 countries globally.
99.95% application availability, hyper-scalability, industry-leading uptime, and 50,000+ transactions per hour without failure.
Proven knowledge administering over 10,000 SAP instances and over 2,300 TB of HANA Database on AWS Cloud.
Proven knowledge with IBM, Oracle, OpenText, and Infosys, as well as cloud-native enterprise application management, including SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS transition on AWS Cloud.
Host and deploy apps in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) region of your choosing to ensure high availability and minimal downtime.
Proven knowledge in end-to-end Application Modernization with a focus on development, engineering, maintenance, administration, and security monitoring.
Dedicated DR options on AWS for diverse, complex application environments, including automated recovery-backup, failback-failover techniques.
Expertise in Dedicated Application Managed Security Services on AWS, 40+ Security Controls, and Dedicated SOCs.
CDWT's automation solutions, including Self-healing Operations, Automation Delivery platforms, and RPA solutions, include Self-healing Operations.
Expertise with hundreds of AWS cloud-native apps and technologies, best handled in accordance with customised business processes
Cost-effective Pay-per-use model under single SLA
1 Billion+ Hours of Managed Fail-safe Application Hosting managing 40,000+ VMs
Strict compliance with regulatory and country-specific data residency requirements
Azure Application Modernization – FAQ’s
Legacy programmes are often hardwired to certain systems, kernels, or backends; hence, merely lifting and shifting them to the cloud results in poor performance.
Modernizing programmes should be at the top of corporate owners' to-do lists for maximising the benefits of sophisticated cloud architecture and ensuring optimal workload performance.
Rehosting entails moving apps as-is to the cloud environment, while Replatforming entails the same process but with a few adjustments for enhanced cloud performance.
Refactoring or re-architecting programmes entails breaking down monolithic structures into smaller modules or microservices and rebuilding codebases in order to not only move them to the cloud but also make them cloud-ready end-to-end.
Retire and Retain refers to the replacement of obsolete, superfluous software and the retention of current, mission-critical on-premises programmes, respectively.
Consequently, in order to properly modernise apps, businesses must remodel app databases, fine-tune database management systems, adjust application networks-protocols-libraries, customise servers, connect with DevOps, and simplify app security.
Firms may execute the aforementioned without interruption by using the services of application modernization partners like Cloud4C or native cloud-tools.