Cloud Computing: Mobile computing drives demand for application modernization, new methods

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Jan Stafford.

Cloud and virtualization technologies offer new options for modernizing legacy applications today. They’re just in time, because many organizations’ existing applications can’t handle the mobile- and Web-based ways people want to deliver and access information, according to Matt Brasier, IT book author and head consultant for UK-based C2B2 Consulting.

In this interview, Brasier explains both why mobile computing is putting pressure on businesses to update older applications and recent changes in ways to do application modernization.

How does mobile computing impact legacy applications today?…

Matt Brasier: The change in how users access services — towards mobile sites and smartphone apps — is a key driver for application modernization. As users move to using mobile devices, they increase their usage of services by one or more orders of magnitude; either by changing their usage patterns to access a system at times when they would normally be away, or by having an app that automatically polls the system for them at regular intervals. This can create significant scalability challenges…

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