Extra tags: Digital Transformation
It has become more apparent that IT modernisation is crucial if you want to keep your business afloat. Especially with the accelerated digital transformation sweeping every industry in every corner of the world, the modernisation of applications can mean either success or failure when it comes to meeting business and customer requirements.
Today, this modernisation means adopting cloud-native solutions as business workloads shift to the cloud. However, migrating to the cloud is not an easy task, especially when many businesses are still relying heavily on their legacy applications.
In fact, a study found that 87% of organisations still operate with both modern and traditional architectures, and modernisation is only deemed necessary when legacy systems are too rigid to adapt to rapidly changing business conditions.
Despite this, application modernisation is still a crucial step forward for businesses that do not want to be left behind by the competition. According to the same study by F5, 77% of respondents reported they are presently modernising internal or customer-facing applications, with APIs as the primary method given their ability to combine capabilities of traditional and modern application components.
Modernisation is a journey every organisation wants and needs to undertake. However, modernising without compromising existing applications would give businesses more ease and flexibility in this journey. Such is the premise of Google Anthos, where organisations can deploy, manage and optimise all their applications, legacy as well as cloud-native, across different environments—multiple clouds, on-premises and the edge.
Aside from that, Anthos features cost-efficiency and convenience in-app modernisation. Anthos saves money by optimising your infrastructure costs and reducing management overhead—wherever your applications may be. Your developers can write an application once, then run it anywhere, so you can realise immediate operational cost savings.
Anthos also understands that app modernisation requires advanced tools and technologies for you to take this journey quicker and more effectively. With that, Anthos provides:
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Container orchestration and management with Anthos GKE: With this, you can keep your environments in sync with the same Kubernetes version, OS, runtime and add-ons between Anthos GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) deployed in your on-premises environment and in the cloud.
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Set your policy with Anthos Config Management: Delivering individual configuration changes for each of your Kubernetes deployment leads to overhead and management challenges. That is why Anthos Config Management provides platform, service and security operators with a single, unified approach to multi-cluster management that spans both on-premises and cloud environments.
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Monitor and manage your services with Anthos Service Mesh: App modernisation often means transforming large “monolithic” applications into independent microservice deployments for easier and faster deployment. This introduces challenges to operate and scale those deployments, so Anthos Service Mesh provides a suite of tools that help monitor and manage services of all shapes and sizes, whether running in the cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
These are just some capabilities offered by Google Anthos in empowering organisations to modernise their applications wherever they might be. Anthos lets you have a unified model for computing, networking and even service management across clouds and on-premises, managed through a centralised control plane.
Anthos reduces business risk by simplifying multi-cloud management and makes it a reality for enterprise customers. To learn more, click here.
