Intelligent and Intuitive Ecosystem: Why Application Modernization on the Google Cloud Platform Is Important
Google Cloud is a very new player in the worldwide hyperscaler cloud race. However, what is more significant is that the platform is already among the top three cloud service providers worldwide. Google’s familiarity amongst the world’s billions is perfectly balanced by an advanced cloud native ecosystem enriched with Google’s latest digital innovations; AI, Automation, Analytics, IT modernization solutions and services, to fuel this rise and its accelerated enterprise adoption across the globe. Google is associated with the internet for billions of Millennials and Generation Z members throughout the world. Unsurprisingly, they are today’s rapidly expanding entrepreneurs and business mentors. Thus, Google Cloud’s popularity is firmly established. But why is the cloud ecosystem unprecedentedly promising for the application modernization capabilities of a company, regardless of its size or complexity? Filtering out the familiarity and intuitiveness aspects, Google Cloud ingests the top technologies in the IT universe, trading with the world’s foremost technology suppliers and innovation architects.
This results in a cloud ecosystem that is extremely adaptable, super-innovative, and highly intelligent and analytics-driven, which is ideally suited to the operational needs of modern businesses, which must juggle hundreds of applications daily and millions of modern options to meet ever-changing market demands. Google Cloud’s increased emphasis on expanding its presence outside traditional datacenter boundaries has resulted in an array of services that cater to hybrid and multi-cloud applications, all the way to the edge and endpoint levels. It is a clever new alternative for application modernization because it combines exceptional adaptability with an intuitive, intelligent ecosystem that can be effortlessly expanded and applied to an organization’s IT presence wherever (remote offices, datacenters, edge, multiple clouds, IoT, endpoints).
Built using the Google Cloud Platform. CDWT Implements and Manages
With CDWT, the world’s leading end-to-end application-focused cloud managed service provider and a trusted Google Cloud MSP, you can have a transformational cloud-based application modernization experience. Rehost, replatform, replace, re-architect, or rebuild adopted corporate applications depending on organisational goals and an evaluation of the current situation.
Integrate GCP-native tools and services for seamless hybrid and multi-cloud application management, intelligent cloud-native application development with microservice competencies, streamlined API management across multiple ecosystems, serverless operations architecture designs, CI/CD implementations, mainframe modernization, and Site Reliability Engineering. Leverage CDWT unique technologies and frameworks to provide industry-leading application performance and availability, as well as top-tier security and end-to-end monitoring, 24/7/365 for hybrid and multi cloud systems powered by Google Cloud. Accelerate your product lifecycles with industry-leading DevOps technologies and go-to-market schedules for the highest ROI.
Flexibility, Intelligence, and Seamless Expansion: 03 Reasons to Modernize Applications with Google Cloud Solutions
Common Challenges
Managed Benefits
Escalating Expenses for Software Updates
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
Boost your Google Cloud Application Modernization Services with CDWT: Automated, AIOps-powered Offerings
The world of cloud managed services is undergoing a rapid transformation. With increasing customer expectations, high-fidelity digital experiences, and large-scale datasets, businesses can no longer satisfy their infra needs from the cloud while controlling everything securely. Consequently, businesses are gravitating towards MSPs such as CDWT that provide end-to-end ITOps management in the cloud from the infra to the application layer under a single SLA. In this setting, application modernisation transforms from a simple request to a key piece of the comprehensive cloud transition jigsaw.
CDWT, an AIOps-driven provider of end-to-end cloud migration, modernization, and administration services, ensures high-quality application modernization experiences at maximum availability, exceptional agility, and greater scalability with no interruption to business as usual. Integrate cutting-edge automation solutions with state-of-the-art security and process analytics with CDWT for constant development at optimal outputs, intelligence to assure hyper-performance, and inventive results at the most cost-effective rates.
CDWT collaborates with Google Cloud to Build Unique Center of Excellence
Delivering tailored, innovative, and use-case specific solutions and services has always been the aim for CDWT. CDWT envisioned a specialised Center of Excellence (CoE) for mission-critical corporate infra, app, and workload transformations on the Google Cloud in light of Google Cloud’s fast expanding ecosystem and solutions portfolio. The most recent CoE development by CDWT for SAP and Anthos, powered by Google Cloud, is evidence of this goal.
Which 6 R Application Modernization Framework on Google Cloud Best Suits Your Organization?
Cloud-based application modernisation is an absolute need for revitalising IT processes and expanding delivery and service experiences. As a result of the absence of app modernization on cloud expertise, however, the majority of organisations just lift and transfer their apps, resulting in severely constrained and decreased performance. The comprehensive cloud strategy, development, full-stack architecture, maintenance, and security engineers at CDWT operate as an extended team to update a client’s application environment end-to-end on Google Cloud.
Using the sophisticated 6 R Methodology, rehash and reboot your apps to uncover further agility, improved performance, and end-user excellence on a GCP-powered backend. Modernize old on-premises systems and apps. Optimize and manage applications with consistent development and reliability engineering to innovate more quickly in response to business objectives and consumer requests.
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 and Digital Transformation Services Using Google Cloud
Utilize CDWT's industry-leading Transfer Factory methodology to expedite the migration of corporate and SaaS application workloads, resources, and PaaS platforms to Google Cloud Platform. 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. Utilize GCP-native solutions to migrate.NET, PHP,.NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python-based apps, Linux and Windows app clusters and containers to Google cloud in a series of easy, automated stages. Implement a lean application lifecycle environment across the enterprise, including CI-CD integrations, DevOps and DevSecOps enhancements, and SysOps procedures. Obtain industry-leading application performance, hyper agility, operational scalability, and continuous availability.
CDWT helps integrate, simplify, and unleash hyper performance for critical industrial and SaaS applications, PaaS platforms in banking, healthcare, e-commerce, corporate operations, and information management, among other industries. On Google Cloud Platform, get comprehensive modernization and implementation help for SAP ERP, Oracle, SAP Full Stack, Infosys Finacle, Intellect, Magento, opentext, and industrial apps. Integrate with virtualized networks, incorporate containerization-serverless-microservice capabilities, and provide enterprise-level security and compliance. Obtain a high level of availability of 99.95% and grow applications internationally without interruption.
Google Cloud makes it simple to host, manage, administrate, and protect databases for mission-critical corporate ERP, CRM, CMS, and related applications in on-premises, Edge, and IoT settings. 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. Fully administered cloud-based databases provide excellent data availability, scalability, and quick access to cutting-edge analytic tools. Integrate superior security solutions and cloud-based firewalls to ensure world-class 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. Reinforce application integrity with multipurpose APIs and event-driven architectures after migrating and modernising programmes on the Google cloud. 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 CDWT'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. Develop apps in the language of your choosing -.NET, PHP,.NET Core, Node.js, Java, or Python - with the Azure advantage. Bring in containers and frameworks-libraries of your choosing operating on Windows or Linux, improve developer productivity, and simplify CI/CD using Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Selenium, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Atlassian Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Docker Hub, 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.
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 for the app modernization process, covering frontend applications, middleware, operating systems, libraries, frameworks, APIs, and virtual machines. Integrate microservices design with containerization in order to maximise FaaS on GCP. 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. Utilize GCP native technologies to support serverless processes, such as Cloud Functions and Cloud Run.
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 for round-the-clock monitoring, identity and access control, firewall management, API security, app database threat management, and network monitoring. Utilize the game-changing preventative maintenance capabilities of CDWT's SHOP (Self-Healing Operations Platform).
Obtain a worldwide compliant-ready application architecture with CDWT's application managed services for Google 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. Adopt rigorous compliance checks for your application's assets. Never again let compliance difficulties to impede the functionality of your applications and the advancement of your firm.
Obtain a worldwide compliant-ready application architecture with CDWT's application managed services for Google 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. Adopt rigorous compliance checks for your application's assets. Never again let compliance difficulties to impede the functionality of your applications and the advancement of your firm.
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 application processes, workflows, and data, and to adopt intelligent, data-driven decision-making capabilities. Choose from hundreds of innovative cloud-native tools and business apps powered by the Google cloud to simplify asset management, workflows, compliance, governance, and more. Unlock cutting-edge innovation skills with cloud-based Machine learning solutions such as Vertex AI, AutoML, Vision AI, Dialogflow, BigQuery, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Composer, AI Infrastructure, Cloud Natural Language, AutoML Tables, and so on. GCP's completely updated development platform offers automatic logging, scalability and high availability, extensive telemetry, proactive 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.
Zero-loss, Fault-Proof Implementation: The CDWT Application Migration and Modernization Factory Methodology
Phase 01
Assessment- 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
- Priority recommendations for application modernisation
- Stakeholder buy-in and finances
Phase 02
Plan- Creating a plan for modernising
- Approaches to app migration and transformation
- Migration plan and target deployment environments
- Plans for Development and Testing
- Document Impact Plan and Document Project Milestones
- Budgeting
- Acceptance by stakeholders and funding release
Phase 03
Execution- Project Launch
- Configure Cloud Platforms
- Quality Control
- 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?
Frequently Deployed and Integrated Google Cloud Native Common Tools and Services
API Management
AI and Machine Learning
Data Analytics
Containers
Databases
Developer Tools
Hybrid and Multi Cloud Applicaitons
Application Security
Serverless Computing
Why Partner with CDWT for your Google Cloud Application Modernization Journey?
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
Google Cloud 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 modernize apps, businesses must remodel app databases, fine-tune database management systems, adjust application networks-protocols-libraries, customize servers, connect with DevOps, and simplify app security.
Firms may execute the aforementioned without interruption by using the services of application modernization partners like CDWT or native cloud-tools.