Infrastructure is one of the four pillars of IT Modernization, along with the
Development Process, Application Architecture and Deployment methodology. Leveraging the promise of Cloud Native means using the best of each of these. However, most organizations have a spectrum of applications in their portfolio to manage from the traditional VM based to the fully Cloud Native, microservices based apps deployed in containers. The challenge for today’s CIO has is to ensure the Dev teams have access to the modern tooling, processes, and infrastructure they need, while simultaneously providing a modern platform for the traditional parts of their application portfolio. All while ensuring security, and compliance, reducing complexity, and being cost effective.