VMware White Paper Sample

Application platform modernization has shifted from an optional activity to a requirement as a result of increasing challenges and complexity that cannot be sustained without structural change.

We are living in an era that is characterized by an ever-quickening pace of technological change. We will witness exceptional disruptive transformations in both the front end and the back end of computing systems and the architectures of applications that run on them.

Because enterprises cannot throw out existing investments in their production applications, application platform modernization is an evolutionary process. Efforts tend to occur in a forced march over a series of phases over a period of time. By the end of the evolution, enterprises will have application platforms ready for cloud enablement.