Leading organizations immediately become more competitive when they discover and act on this one secret. Today, we spill the proverbial “beans” on how you, too, can chart an intelligent path forward.
The technology wave driven by next-generation applications and data strategies has changed business as we know it, opening up endless possibilities previously beyond reach. However, many organizations face challenges in effectively navigating this shift.
If yours is among those struggling to capture benefits, you’re about to make a game-changing discovery.
The reason for your business woes hides in plain sight—you haven’t (yet) unlocked the next stage of your organization’s evolution, not because you are short of ideas or technical capabilities but because you use an outdated tech stack.
Outdated systems are notorious for many issues, including accumulating technical debt, reducing performance, and hampering opportunities for innovation. So, moving to a modern, agile IT infrastructure is imperative to stay competitive.
With CoreAIR (Application Infrastructure Readiness), your transformation starts today. But before we tell you about this strategic modernization solution helping leading organizations stay at the cutting edge, let’s explore how legacy infrastructure holds you back. Later, we’ll discuss the essential modernization principles for success and how CoreAIR fits into the equation. Ready? Let’s dive in!
Challenges of Legacy Infrastructure
Common problems you may face with an outdated infrastructure include:
- High Maintenance Costs: Old systems can drain as much as 60-80% of your IT budget. This is partly due to frequent breakdowns and failures, which divert valuable IT staff hours from critical business objectives. There’s also the demand and supply factor: As systems become obsolete, talent and replacement parts become more challenging to find, driving up expenses.
- Complexity: Due to their complex architectures, legacy systems require extensive debugging and maintenance, putting your business at risk of security breaches and operational disruptions.
- Security Vulnerabilities: Beyond exposing your business to attacks, legacy infrastructure also carries the compatibility cost of retrofitting new security updates. This technology mismatch requires middleware, new code, and significant configuration, which adds to IT expenses. The greatest risk, however, is the cost of getting breached—$4.88 million in 2024.
- Poor Scalability and Agility: Legacy systems aren’t ideal for high-transaction use cases. Their rigid architecture makes it difficult to scale vertically or horizontally. Persisting with them means you’ll likely be unable to handle increased data and user loads. This is a significant sticking point in today’s fast-moving business landscape, requiring near-immediate responses.
When confronted with these challenges, it’s tempting to take the easy path of applying incremental fixes as you go. However, moving to a comprehensive modernization strategy makes more sense, considering that tactical approaches only add to technical debt and ultimately bring diminishing returns.
Key Principles for Successful Infrastructure Modernization
The essential principles for modern IT infrastructure are as follows:
- Hybrid Cloud Adoption: Combining cloud and on-premise infrastructure provides the flexibility to run workloads where it makes the most sense financially and operationally.
- Automation: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) for automation streamlines operations, leading to higher efficiency, fewer errors, better productivity, and more time for IT staff to focus on areas where their core competencies are most needed.
- Robust Security: Integrating security across your entire technology ecosystem limits cyber risk as threats evolve and your infrastructure gets more complex and distributed.
- Data Strategy Alignment: Aligning data strategy with business goals helps you leverage data as a strategic asset for competitiveness by breaking silos, enhancing decision-making, and boosting compliance.
Ultimately, every infrastructure modernization initiative should ensure IT-business alignment. Without alignment, even the most sophisticated infrastructure won’t maximize ROI, support growth, or deliver other outcomes your organization needs. You’ll likely end up with bridges leading to nowhere, poorly executed business initiatives, and pain points that aren’t comprehensively addressed. That’s why it’s so important to be strategic about modernization.
Introducing CoreAIR: A Strategic Solution for Modernization
CoreAIR, Core BTS’s Application Infrastructure Readiness solution, thoroughly evaluates your current infrastructure to show its current state relative to the desired state. The assessment covers everything from your current capabilities and security posture to your IT costs.
Through CoreAIR, our pros engage your team in a structured three-phase process to build a state-of-the-art digital core that seamlessly handles modern business, data, and application needs.
- Discovery: We start by having strategic conversations with your organization’s leadership about how CoreAIR fits into your transformation agenda. Then, we inventory and analyze your applications, data storage, security posture, and IT costs for insights about the most impactful changes to make.
- Design: Next, we draft detailed design documentation regarding the application, data, security, and business continuity strategies we’ll use for modernization. Here, we also determine the total investment cost and transformation value.
- Plan: Finally, we map out a comprehensive implementation and migration plan to take your infrastructure to the next level with minimum disruptions to your operations.
Put differently, CoreAIR is your opportunity to build a modern, agile, and secure IT infrastructure that’s responsive to your business needs and keeps pace with technology.
Read this case study of how a leading bank transformed its entire data center network infrastructure in 18 months through CoreAIR.
Future Proof Your Infrastructure With CoreAIR
As the digital landscape continues moving at a breakneck speed, incorporating the latest technologies is vital to streamlining business operations and staying ahead. This is only possible with a modern, agile infrastructure.
Consider the tried and tested CoreAIR solution to help you quickly find the best path to transforming your infrastructure and supporting business objectives.
Ready to unlock new possibilities? Contact Core BTS now to start the conversation.
