The implementation of digital transformation has its pro and cons. While, digital transformation evidently shows effective results in maintaining business sustainability and growth, it also leads to the increase in costs of building and maintaining an IT infrastructure. Consequently, many organisations opt for cloud migration as a solution. With more and more organisations started to shift their IT infrastructure to the cloud, the traditional lift and shift strategy had become irrelevant as it carries questionable capabilities in leveraging the many benefits of the cloud. In 2021, Gartner had proposed a few technologies that are reliable in creating a more resilient and efficient IT foundation by securing data integration and processing across cloud and non-cloud environments in order to deliver cost-efficient scaling of the IT foundation. One of it is called cloud-native platforms (CNPs). How can cloud-native platforms improve traditional lift and shift strategy ?
Lift and shift cloud migration strategy involves the process of moving workloads and tasks to the cloud without primarily change or redesign the workloads. In fact, lift and shift strategy is positively accepted by most organisations as the most popular cloud migration strategy since rehosting. On its bright side, lift and shift offers the fastest way to move workloads to the cloud as organisation are not required to spend time in optimisation and refactoring. Nevertheless, the business world today no longer agree on speed as the key to success. The winner is all about agility, flexibility and resilience delivery.
Cloud-native platforms are technologies that gives organisations the ability to build new applications that is agile, resilient and flexible. With this compelling features, cloud-native platforms dismiss various unresolved challenges brought by the traditional lift and shift strategy. Essentially, cloud-native platforms offers elastic native resources environment which makes optimisation of legacy workloads less complex. As refactoring or re-architecting becomes easier through Cloud-native Platforms, advantages of cloud such as automated performance management and stability can be fully benefited.
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