Day Two Cloud 093: Application Modernization With VMware (Sponsored)

Today’s Day Two Cloud tackles application modernization with sponsor VMware. As new application platforms such as containers and the public cloud take hold, organizations need to examine their application portfolio to figure out how  applications are meeting business requirements—and how they aren’t. The point of app modernization is to determine whether a new approach and new technologies will better align your applications with your business goals. For example, would greater agility in a critical business app help the business respond faster to new demands? Would an application be better served by elastic resource consumption or improved resiliency? On today’s show we discuss how to understand whether and when an app could do with a rethink, how to weigh the pros and cons of different approaches (containers, VMs, serverless, on-prem, cloud-native, etc.,), and why consistency should be a key element of your strategy. We also discuss VMware products and services including Tanzu and VMware Cloud. Our VMware guests are Kit Colbert, VP and Cloud CTO; and Dormain Drewitz, Sr. Director, Product Marketing for Modern Apps. Show Links: Office of the CTO Blog – VMware VMware Cloud Event – Registration VMware Tanzu Responsible Microservices, with Nate Schutta – Tanzu Conversation (Podcast) Bringing More Tanzu to Three Cloud Transformations – Dormain Drewitz via VMware @DormainDrewitz – Dormain Drewitz on Twitter @kitcolbert – Kit Colbert on Twitter Transcript: [00:00:05.880] – Ethan Welcome to Day Two Cloud. Ned, we have a show on app modernization or modern apps or I guess kind of both of them with our sponsor today, VMware. [00:00:16.620] – Ned Right. And this is a really interesting conversation. It’s not just about VMware. It’s really about this larger app modernization landscape that we find ourselves in. And the point that I took home from everything was consistency is key at multiple layers if you’re going to responsibly manage this app real estate that you have. So let’s get right into the conversation. [00:00:38.970] – Ethan Enjoy this conversation with Kit Colbert, VP and cloud CTO at VMware, as well as Dormain Drewitz, senior director of Product Marketing for Modern Apps. [00:00:49.210] – Ethan Well, welcome, both of you to the show and what we want to discuss today is modern apps. Modern application modernization is really the big idea, which is kind of a buzz word. So Dormain I want to start with you to set context for this conversation. We need to define what a modern app really is here. We’re talking about moving to cloud. OK, so is a modern app one thing, many possible things. What do we mean by this? [00:01:15.370] – Dormain Yeah, I think it’s a good question. And it’s interesting how you kind of talk about, well, there’s modern apps, there’s app modernization. And I actually prefer to talk about app modernization because that’s a spectrum that can hit so many diffe...