Keeping up that pace means new ways of
building, managing, running and securing
the entire application estate. To help cope
with this, two thirds (67%) have already
containerised applications to drive developer
productivity and app availability.
Accelerating towards speed bumps?
However, while enterprises are accelerating
their ability to modernise applications, they
are coming up against challenges. The study
found that security, a skills gap, production
risks and refactoring complexity were the
top four obstacles faced when reaching
migration goals.
When it comes to security, applications are
no longer static, hidden inside a corporate
network behind a firewall. Both applications
and their data are constantly moving
across clouds, be it private, public or in a
hybrid environment. Being able to protect
this properly becomes near impossible
with traditional approaches. Even basic
cyberhygiene principles, such as applying
patches and updates, become a timeconsuming
minefield and dramatically
increase the potential success of a breach
and its devastating consequences.
Then there’s the skills gap issue and
associated production risks. The proliferation
of environments needed to support these
applications has meant organisations are
faced with either upskilling existing teams or
hiring the right employees in.
The challenge is that there is a limited talent
pool, both for training and hiring. This is
leading to a skills gap and also runs the risk
of creating silos, in much the same way that
traditional IT was hamstrung by the need
for separate teams for different systems.
Enterprises run the risk of creating a new era
of disparate, disconnected functions. Only
this time it’s in the cloud.
Building on that are the challenges of
deploying unfamiliar operations and
infrastructure. Without the skills to service
them, there is a very real possibility of not
being able to use these new environments
effectively, being challenged by inconsistent
data centre and cloud operations, making
it harder to achieve security, control,
portability and collaboration benefits,
wasting investment, derailing their drive to
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