Rehosting legacy applications in the cloud
1. Rehosting legacy applications in the cloud
When a business decides to modernize and move its operations to the cloud, it might be running several specialized legacy applications that aren’t compatible with cloud-native applications. In these situations, a business might take a rehost migration path, commonly referred to as lift and shift, where an application is moved from an on-premises environment to a cloud environment without making any changes to the application itself. Rehosting applications brings with it the many benefits of cloud computing that we explored earlier, such as cost savings, scalability, reliability, and security. However, there are also some potential drawbacks to choosing a rehost migration path for legacy applications, including: Complexity: rehosting can be a complex process. Businesses need to carefully plan the migration process and ensure that they have the right resources in place. Risk: migrating applications to the cloud always involves some risk. Businesses need to carefully assess and identify potential risks and ensure that they have a plan in place in case of any problems. Vendor lock-in: by moving applications to the cloud, businesses might become locked into a particular cloud provider. This can potentially make it difficult to switch providers later. Google Cloud offers many solutions for rehosting specialized legacy applications. The first is Google Cloud VMware Engine, which helps migrate existing VMware workloads to the cloud without having to rearchitect the applications or retool operations. With Google Cloud VMware Engine, organizations can maintain their existing VMware environments and operational processes, while benefiting from the scalability, security, reliability of Google Cloud. By doing this, organizations can also access a range of Google Cloud services such as BigQuery, AI/ML, and Google Kubernetes Engine, which lets them modernize their application environment and use new capabilities and technologies as needed. And for organizations with legacy applications on Oracle, Google Cloud offers Bare Metal Solution. This is a fully managed cloud infrastructure solution that lets organizations run their Oracle workloads on dedicated, bare metal servers in the cloud.2. Let's practice!
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