Dealing with legacy applications in the cloud is not a simple, straight ahead proposition. The bottom line is it can be done, but doing it smartly is a whole other issue.
As Dan Woods asks:
“Can cloud infrastructure support traditional applications that were not built to deliver reliable performance from unreliable components?”
The reasons to move legacy apps to the cloud are manifest: improved performance, ROI, and associated upkeep costs, to name a few. So much money has already gone into creating the tech and utilizing the data center real estate that simply abandoning what you’ve been using would be like burning millions of dollars.
However, the answer to Dan Woods’ question is not a simple yes or no, and many providers who reply in one way or the other are selling short the amount of thinking that has to go into making legacy applications at home in the cloud.