Today’s enterprise faces an array of choices and strategies when modernizing mission-critical applications and migrating them to the cloud. Successful digital transformation requires organizations to leverage the latest and greatest, not only for net-new or simple web applications, but increasingly for legacy and mission-critical applications that, until recently, were typically relegated to on-premises environments behind the firewall.

By leveraging managed services and greater levels of automation and abstraction, enterprises are better positioned to use cloud services, focus on applications and leverage open source software components without having to worry about building, maintaining and securing infrastructure.