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much outside the corporate network as they
do within it, that means a new approach
to security, one where it is intrinsically built
in and not bolted on. Modern-day security
requires an investment shift away from
trying to prevent breaches at all costs and
towards building intrinsic security into
everything – the application, the network,
essentially everything that connects and
carries data. This is only possible through
software. Where actually the focus isn’t
on applications – it’s on the policies that
govern them. With every part of the
application, network and data adhering to
the policy, all it takes is one change to ensure
everything is compliant and updated – a
vast improvement on having to adjust every
single application within the estate.
2. Consistent management of
applications, regardless of where
they’re deployed. To remove the need
for specific skills, IT needs to be able to
manage applications across different types
of cloud, from data centre, to public, to the
Edge. This needs to be agile, efficient and
automated to ensure that IT teams can run
applications and their environments in a
consistent manner. Having this ability means
having the visibility, operations, automation,
security and governance to manage and
operate their systems and apps, even across
multiple cloud environments. It is only in
doing so that enterprises can start migrating
applications as required to meet business
objectives, rather than as capabilities dictate.
3. Ensure applications are portable
from cloud to cloud without refactoring.
25% of respondents highlighted this
is a challenge to achieving migration
goals. However, there are multiple ways
to move applications across developer
platforms, without costly refactoring – from
replatforming to adopting a multi-tier
approach, which sees the application split
(for instance, with a front-end in a public
cloud, and the data kept on-premises), to
building cloud-native applications from
scratch or deploying a Software-as-a-
Service version. The key to all of these,
however, is having consistency across
operations and infrastructure.
4. One set of tools, for one set of
environments: Dovetailing with consistent
management, having one set of tools, on
a common platform, to build and manage
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