Infrastructure, Cloud & DevOps

Application Modernization

July 6, 2023

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Application Modernization

Delivering code quickly across multiple platforms and cloud environments is increasingly important in the distributed cloud ecosystem.
Cloud-native applications and modernized infrastructure are a de facto prerequisite for successful transformation projects.

Keeping up with advances in technology on top of maintenance means developers have a lot on their plates.

Our latest research shows increasing focus on improving efficiency via automation and using low-code/no-code to enable developers and citizen developers to deliver apps faster.

Enterprise Strategy Group’s Application Modernization analysts and demand-side research cover all aspects of the application modernization ecosystem, including:

Application build, delivery, release, testing

Application integration & development

Application modernization & observability

Cloud-native technologies

Content management systems & digital experience platforms

Continuous integration/Continuous delivery (CI/CD)

DevOps, site reliability engineering (SRE) & platform engineering

Digital transformation

Infrastructure modernization

Integration & orchestration

Kubernetes & containers

On-premises, cloud & hybrid infrastructure

Open-source software
Research Report

Application Modernization and the Role of Platform Engineering

Platform engineering is the foundation of digital transformation success, as this discipline directly affects an organization’s ability to rapidly, continuously, and cost-effectively deliver high-quality software in anticipation of and in response to complex and dynamic market requirements. Today’s landscape of cloud-native tools, technologies, infrastructure resources, and application development paradigms ultimately define optimal platform engineering strategies, […]

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Analysts Covering Application Modernization

Torsten Volk

Principal Analyst, Application Modernization

Areas of Expertise

Application Modernization

Cloud-native Applications

DevOps and CI/CD

Hybrid & Multi-cloud

Infrastructure-as-Code & GitOps

Observability, Monitoring & APM

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Recent Application Modernization Insights

Research Report | June 7, 2025

The Growing Role of AI in Endpoint Management and Security Convergence

Gabe Knuth
Emily Marsh

Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence

Research Brief | June 6, 2025

The Imperative to Involve Security Starting Early in Application Development Processes

Melinda Marks
Emily Marsh
Bill Lundell

Cybersecurity

Research Brief | June 6, 2025

IT Roles Show Discrepancies in Application Development Perspectives

Melinda Marks
Emily Marsh
Bill Lundell

Cybersecurity

Research Brief | April 29, 2025

Open Source LLMs for Everyone at Scale: Red Hat Acquires Neural Magic

Torsten Volk

Cloud & IT Operations
Networking

July 6, 2023

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Networking

Distributed IT and hybrid work create network complexity, which is driving adoption of new network technologies and operational frameworks.
Networking infrastructures and operations continue to evolve to keep pace with changes in data centers, remote/branch offices, and endpoint devices.

Data growth, virtualization, AI, cloud consolidation, and next-gen web applications are driving the need for enhanced networking infrastructure performance, elasticity, and scalability.

Our Networking analysts and demand-side research cover every aspect of an organization’s networking strategy and technology framework, including:

4G/5G private networks

AIOps & network automation

Campus networks

Cloud-based network management

Convergence of IoT, IT & OT

Data center networks

Multi-cloud networking

Network performance management

Network as a Service (NaaS)

Remote work

SASE/SD-WAN

Telecommunication networks

Unified network management

WiFi
Research Brief

Convergence and Collaboration Efforts in Application Security

Securing applications against exploit, denial of service, and other forms of cyberattack is a mission-critical goal for many cybersecurity teams today. However, due to the distributed nature of most IT environments, responsibility for application security involves a range of roles and teams such as those supporting cloud computing, on-premises technologies, networking, fraud, application development, and […]

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Analysts Covering Networking

Jim Frey

Principal Analyst, Networking

Areas of Expertise

AI in Networking

Cloud Networking

Datacenter Networking

Network Automation

Network Management & Observability

Network-as-a-Service (NaaS)

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Recent Networking Insights

Infographic | September 12, 2025

Networking and Security Convergence: Assessing SASE Progress and Best Practices

John Grady
Jim Frey

Cybersecurity

Research Report | September 12, 2025

Networking and Security Convergence: Assessing SASE Progress and Best Practices

John Grady
Jim Frey
Emily Marsh

Cybersecurity

Survey Results | September 12, 2025

Networking and Security Convergence: Assessing SASE Progress and Best Practices

John Grady
Jim Frey

Cybersecurity

Research Brief | August 13, 2025

Organizations Set Their Sights on Private 5G

Jim Frey
Emily Marsh
Christian Perry

Networking
Multi-cloud Application Deployment and Delivery Decision Making

June 28, 2023

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Scott Sinclair

As organizations continue to adopt multiple public cloud providers, maintain multiple data centers, and scale edge and colocation environments, IT decision makers must consider a wealth of locations to deploy new workloads and migrate existing workloads.

Learn more about these trends with the infographic, Multi-cloud Application Deployment and Delivery Decision Making.

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Aviv Kaufmann

June 22, 2023

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Bill Lundell

June 22, 2023

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Enterprise Strategy Group

June 22, 2023

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Tony Palmer

June 22, 2023

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Jon Brown

June 22, 2023

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About

Senior Analyst Jon Brown has 20+ years of experience in IT product management as well as a passion for marketing and product positioning.

Jon was formerly Vice President, Market Insights at TechTarget, Enterprise Strategy Group’s parent company, and Publisher of TechTarget CIO, TechTarget IT Operations, and TechTarget Sustainability & ESG.

Prior to joining TechTarget and Enterprise Strategy Group, Jon held product, sales, and business management leadership roles at a variety of enterprise software firms. He holds a BA from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts and an MBA from The Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Areas of Expertise

AIOps

Backup

Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery

Data Protection

DRaaS

FinOps

IT Ops

IT Service Management

Sustainability

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Sustainability is rising as a purchase decision factor, and all IT vendors must be able to demonstrate their commitment to these principles or face potential elimination from purchase consideration by multinational organizations.”
Jon Brown
Senior Analyst, Data Protection, Ops & Sustainability

Research Report

Reinventing Backup and Recovery With AI and ML

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the world of backup and recovery, bringing new opportunities and challenges for organizations that want to protect and leverage their data assets for business value. AI can help automate backup and recovery processes, improve data security and resilience, enable data reuse and insights, and optimize costs and performance. However, AI […]

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Jon Has Appeared In

Latest Insights from Jon

Research Brief | January 23, 2025

AI Is Transforming Application Development Amid High Expectations

Jon Brown
Emily Marsh
Christian Perry

Cloud & IT Operations

Research Brief | January 23, 2025

Container Orchestration Deployments Show Penchant for Wide Variety

Jon Brown
Emily Marsh
Christian Perry

Cloud & IT Operations

Research Brief | January 23, 2025

Large Enterprises Keep a Critical Eye on AI’s Impact on Sustainability

Jon Brown
Emily Marsh
Christian Perry

Cloud & IT Operations

Research Brief | January 23, 2025

Unique APJ Sustainability Perceptions Create Both Opportunity and Adversity

Jon Brown
Emily Marsh
Christian Perry

Cloud & IT Operations

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Scott Sinclair

June 22, 2023

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About

Practice Director Scott Sinclair leads ESG’s analyst team focused on infrastructure, cloud and DevOps.

Scott a proven history with 25+ years of experience in the server and storage industries. He uses his keen understanding, which he leveraged while investigating new technologies and designing business strategies for Fortune 500 technology companies, to solve unique problems for his clients.

Prior to joining Enterprise Strategy Group, Scott held senior product management and marketing roles at enterprise storage vendors Dell Technologies and EMC Corp.

Scott holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and an MBA from the Texas McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

Areas of Expertise

Cloud-native Storage

Composable

Computational Storage

Data Storage

Hybrid Cloud

Hyperconverged (HCI)

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Intelligent/Automatic Infrastructure

Kubernetes

Server/Compute

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The cloud experience has been too beneficial to businesses for it to be isolated to off-premises public cloud services alone; the mission of contemporary IT is to extend the cloud experience everywhere.”
Scott Sinclair
Practice Director, Infrastructure, Cloud & DevOps

Research Brief

Navigating the Edge Data Deluge Is No Small Feat

Edge computing locations are important and often mission-critical sites for business transactions and operations. As such, they can be the point of ingress for large volumes of data with varied processing and storage needs. Recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group examined the storage profile of edge sites for further insights into this landscape. Already […]

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Scott Has Appeared In

Latest Insights from Scott

Research Brief | September 2, 2025

Supermicro Direct Liquid Cooling DLC-2

Scott Sinclair

Infrastructure

Research Brief | August 22, 2025

AI Presents Opportunity To Integrate Alternative Virtualization Platforms

Scott Sinclair
Emily Marsh
Christian Perry

Infrastructure

Research Brief | August 22, 2025

Infrastructure Management Tools Create Cost and Complexity Concerns

Scott Sinclair
Emily Marsh
Christian Perry

Infrastructure

Research Brief | August 8, 2025

Pay-per-use Private Clouds Strategic for Data Centers

Scott Sinclair

Cloud & IT Operations

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Aaron Tan

June 22, 2023

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About

As Enterprise Strategy Group’s regional director of analyst services for APAC, Aaron Tan helps clients identify and quantify key market trends on a wide range of technology topics, including cloud infrastructure, DevOps, business applications, and cybersecurity in the Asia-Pacific region.

Aaron also serves as Editor in Chief, APAC at ESG’s parent company, TechTarget.

Aaron is a seasoned media and information professional who has been involved in technology implementations in the public sector and has nearly two decades of experience covering B2B technology for leading media companies. He has held various managerial roles in the Singapore public sector, including the National Library Board of Singapore and the Infocomm Media Development Authority.

Aaron holds a bachelor’s degree in Communications from Nanyang Technological University Singapore and a master’s degree in Information Science from Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.

Areas of Expertise

Application Modernization & DevOps

Business Applications

Cloud Computing

Cybersecurity

DevOps

IaaS/Cloud

IoT

Networking & 5G

Storage

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The growing use of public cloud services in Asia-Pacific has not only drawn cloud suppliers to the region but also integration platform players who provide the glue that ties cloud services together in a multi- cloud and hybrid IT environment.”
Aaron Tan
Regional Director Analyst Services, APAC
Alex Arcilla

June 22, 2023

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Simon Robinson

June 22, 2023

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About

Principal Analyst Simon Robinson has more than 25 years of experience leading analyst teams and producing research and insight into all aspects of digital infrastructure.

Simon focuses on delivering research insights into the rapidly evolving technology landscape to help clients position their infrastructure solutions for success.

Simon was an IT journalist and editor before becoming a founding analyst at 451 Research, where he led the storage and infrastructure research practice. He is an industry-recognized authority, commentator, and public speaker on a range of emerging storage technologies, including disk-based backup, object storage, cloud storage, all-flash storage, and hyperconverged infrastructure. Simon also led survey-based products and managed 451’s analyst team prior to the company’s acquisition by S&P Global in 2019. He assumed overall responsibility for the Technology, Media and Telecoms research team following S&P’s acquisition of IHS Markit.

Simon is based in the UK and has a degree in Economics from the University of Central Lancashire.

Areas of Expertise

Cloud-attached Storage

Cloud-native Storage

Flash-based Storage

Hybrid Cloud

Hyperconverged infrastructure

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Primary Storage Arrays

Software-defined Storage

Storage Hardware

Storage Networking

Storage/Data Management

Connect with Simon Robinson

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Data is an organization’s lifeblood, at the heart of next-generation intelligent applications and services. As data becomes ever more distributed it’s never been more important for IT organizations to build out a modern, performant, intelligent, and connected data storage infrastructure; it’s increasingly a critical, foundational piece of any successful organization.”
Simon Robinson
Principal Analyst, Storage & Converged Infrastructure

Research Brief

AI Is the Leading Driver of Storage and HCI Projects in 2024

Organizations seeking digital transformation success are ensuring their operations run on modernized infrastructure. Recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group found that as AI initiatives pervade a variety of teams and departmental goals, IT leaders are swinging their focus from augmenting the compute layer to optimizing their storage. Already an Enterprise Strategy Group client? Log […]

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Simon Has Appeared In

Latest Insights from Simon

Infographic | September 12, 2025

The Critical Role of Storage in Building an Enterprise AI Infrastructure

Simon Robinson

Infrastructure

Research Report | September 12, 2025

The Critical Role of Storage in Building an Enterprise AI Infrastructure

Simon Robinson
Emily Marsh

Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence

Survey Results | September 12, 2025

The Critical Role of Storage in Building an Enterprise AI Infrastructure

Simon Robinson

Infrastructure

Research Brief | August 25, 2025

Nasuni Doubles Down on Intelligence Layer for Unified File Data Platform

Simon Robinson

Data Platforms

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