In our “there’s an app for that” environment, businesses need to offer their customers anywhere, anytime, any device access to engage with customers, suppliers, and employees. However, critical business logic in legacy applications is often trapped in on-premises datacenters, limiting access in today’s multi-cloud, multi-vendor world.

This BattleCard looks at ways business-critical legacy applications can be freed from their data center roots, and how to develop a plan for re-factoring or re-platforming tried-and-true code to embrace a business’ digital transformation and become more cloud-savvy

Businesses face a myriad of decisions when embarking on their digital transformation journey. Young companies are often ‘born in the cloud’, while established businesses often are burdened with legacy applications and infrastructure that can siphon IT attention from adding business value to chasing after OS upgrades and hardware failures.

This battlecard looks at the challenges enterprises are facing at the outset of their digital transformation and provides guidance on how to utilize off-site hosting capabilities as an important first step to both modernization and the cloud.

Experts Share Tactics to Help Financial Services Organizations

According to PWC, attacks on financial institutions grew 130% last year. And in a recent outage at a regional bank, equipment failure led to $15 million in lost revenue and another $5 million in fee waivers and associated costs. In addition to the raw cost of an incident, financial organizations also face the risk of exposed customer information, regulatory fines, loss of trust and impact to stock prices.

In the webinar, Minimizing Data Disruptions Through Business Continuity Planning, our experts will:

• Define the scope of data continuity, including disaster recovery and mitigation.
• Discuss common causes of service interruptions.
• Show you how to identify the right data continuity solution for your organization.
• Define tiers of disaster recovery, including multi-tenant DR and full-featured solutions.
• Share strategies for handling complexity and other DR issues.

An effective business continuity strategy can provide immense value for your organization — better planning would have saved that regional bank $20 million and a lot of dissatisfied customers.

Experts Share Tactics to Help Financial Services Organizations

According to PWC, attacks on financial institutions grew 130% last year. And in a recent outage at a regional bank, equipment failure led to $15 million in lost revenue and another $5 million in fee waivers and associated costs. In addition to the raw cost of an incident, financial organizations also face the risk of exposed customer information, regulatory fines, loss of trust and impact to stock prices.

In the webinar, Minimizing Data Disruptions Through Business Continuity Planning, our experts will:

• Define the scope of data continuity, including disaster recovery and mitigation.
• Discuss common causes of service interruptions.
• Show you how to identify the right data continuity solution for your organization.
• Define tiers of disaster recovery, including multi-tenant DR and full-featured solutions.
• Share strategies for handling complexity and other DR issues.

An effective business continuity strategy can provide immense value for your organization — better planning would have saved that regional bank $20 million and a lot of dissatisfied customers.

Both the number of companies using multiple clouds, and the number of clouds they’re using, are growing. And, according to our recent Cost of Expertise Report, 44% of IT workers say they spend more time maintaining cloud services than initially expected.

In our new webinar, Navigating Multi-Cloud Complexity and Integration, our experts will:

• Examine the financial and business costs associated with management and maintenance of multiple clouds.
• Explore ways to integrate monitoring, maintenance and management of your clouds.
• Share how TotalTrax, a Rackspace customer, found greater efficiency in its multi-cloud environment.

Stepping out of legacy databases and applications is complicated and one of the biggest challenges IT organizations face. You can’t afford to maintain the status quo, and yet you cannot afford a costly misstep in the process of modernization.

• How do you know where to start?
• What’s a cost-effective replacement for a legacy database?
• How much can you reasonably expect to save with a modernized application stack?

In our new webinar, Modernizing Legacy Databases & Applications, Rackspace experts will share their modernization experiences and how we helped TotalTrax, a telematics firm, move its applications from an on-premises customer environment to a cloud model.

Migrating your application portfolio is a critical first step for success in the cloud. But the process, if performed correctly, requires painstaking discovery, planning, testing and data configuration. This webinar provides a closer look at some of the more common hiccups companies face during migration. We’ll also discuss how Aeroméxico, the largest airline in Mexico, partnered with Rackspace to build a high-volume digital environment capable of supporting customer transactions for each if its 600 daily flights.

Selecting the right cloud platform for your workload, architecting a solution and modernizing operations is a complex process. There are many variables to consider, including the level of scalability you require, the level of security your data needs, and your business continuity and governance requirements. This webinar takes a look at cloud selection through the lens of British Medical Journal’s need to run multiple workloads with very distinct requirements.

• What are some of the big differences between clouds?
• What are some commonalities?
• What are some common needs that dictate one cloud over the other?
• How can you be sure you’re making the right choice?