{"id":7929,"date":"2013-06-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2684255"},"modified":"2013-06-17T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T11:00:00","slug":"cio-outlook-dealing-with-legacy-applications-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cio-outlook-dealing-with-legacy-applications-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CIO Outlook: Dealing with Legacy Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legacy apps are surely the albatross of the modern cloud-enabled IT department \u2013 you put them there, and now you have to live with them.<\/p>\n<p>Short of scrapping millions of dollars of worth of investments, something needs to be done with these apps, especially when cloud adoption is altering the efficiency and cost landscape for IT.<br \/>\nThe first thing is to consider is why the move needs to take place. The reality for most companies is that there is a finite amount of space they can utilize in the data center. Companies have certain apps that they want to run locally, which is often the most mission critical aspects of their business. If its healthcare that\u2019s EMR, if tis retail that\u2019s the point of sale platform. These applications need as  low latency as possible since there will always be someone in the organization that\u2019s doing something very important and needs that data as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2684255\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legacy apps are surely the albatross of the modern cloud-enabled IT department &ndash; you put them there, and now you have to live with them.<\/p>\n<p>Short of scrapping millions of dollars of worth of investments, something needs to be done with these apps, especially when cloud adoption is altering the efficiency and cost landscape for IT.<br \/>\nThe first thing is to consider is why the move needs to take place. The reality for most companies is that there is a finite amount of space they can utilize in the data center. Companies have certain apps that they want to run locally, which is often the most mission critical aspects of their business. If its healthcare that&rsquo;s EMR, if tis retail that&rsquo;s the point of sale platform. These applications need as  low latency as possible since there will always be someone in the organization that&rsquo;s doing something very important and needs that data as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2684255\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}