Top 3 Tips to Accelerate Your Application Modernization Process
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Moving beyond lift & shift to modernize critical applications is a high-stakes, high-anxiety affair for IT leaders, especially when looking at refactoring and shifting them to cloud. Lack of accurate knowledge and insight into the inner working of the applications further exacerbates the challenge during the migration process. These are just a few of the complications organizations face during the cloud migration and application modernization process.
Join Google and CAST, a global leader in Software Intelligence and Application Modernization, on Wednesday, August 17th at 3pm ET, as they share how customers are refactoring and migrating applications to cloud with a smarter, transparent, and more automated approach.
In this session, Google and CAST will share the approach and real-world examples.
Learn about:
- Key challenges to be aware of when moving to cloud native and containers
- Benefits of refactoring apps for PaaS vs rehosting to IaaS
- How to use software intelligence to de-risk and accelerate the transformation
Speakers
Aniruth Sarathy
Global Solutions Manager at Google
Aniruth is an established practitioner who has helped several Fortune 100/500 companies in their Digital Transformation journey. Formerly he was the North America leader for Application Services at VMware, where he led teams at several enterprises that focused on rationalizing and modernizing their traditional applications as part of their cloud journey. He has mainly focused on training the customer’s team on how to focus on business outcomes by changing the way of how they build software through Agile and XP practices. He is now the Global Solutions Manager at Google’s Application Modernization practice, and is focused on bringing Google’s unique approach, and its products towards building products for its customers.
Cedric Yao
Application Modernization Scale Solution Specialist at Google
Cedric is an accomplished technical and business leader drawing on his consulting experience and technology background. Formerly a leader at multiple consulting organizations, he has routinely led teams at large enterprises modernizing applications as part of their cloud transformation journey. He’s passionate about transforming the way companies build software through agile software practices, cloud native technologies and collaborative culture change. He is now leading Google’s Application Modernization practices and loves showcasing Google’s distinct approach towards building products.
Chakra Yarlagadda
Senior Vice President, CAST
Chakra is Senior Vice President with CAST Software helping clients globally on modernizing applications and migrating to cloud faster and cost effectively. Previously, he was responsible for starting the IBM cloud in China and helping global customers leverage cloud native solutions. Before this, Chakra managed various leadership roles internationally, including M&A transactions totaling about $9 billion in value. Chakra has an MBA from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s in engineering.
Kevin Furet
Senior Solutions Architect, CAST
Kevin is a Senior Solutions Architect at CAST, helping partners and clients to leverage software intelligence to build value based offerings for software modernization, application diagnostics and risk management programs.
As a member of Strategic Partnerships Team, he helps Advisories and Consulting firms assess large IT organization's application landscapes and define actionable future-proof strategies.