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Forbes
12 hours ago
- Business
- Forbes
A Modern Approach To Legacy Software
HAVANA - SEPTEMBER 14: Men relax next to a car as Cuba hosts the week long 14th Non-Aligned Nations ... More summit September 14, 2006 in Havana, Cuba. Leaders from around the world continue to arrive for the Non Aligned Movement that currently has 116 member countries (53 of Africa, 38 of Asia, 24 of Latin America and the Caribbean and one from Europe (Belarus). (Photo by) Software is new, then immediately old. Rather like a new car, the moment you drive it out of the dealership, it starts to lose value and become old and used. It's a talking point that software engineers ponder over long into the small hours. One camp says that new versions of software are needed all the time, the other (if it ain't broke, don't fix it) camp says that legacy software is still around for a reason, it still works. There are software administrators and engineers in government IT departments all over the world using database tools from the 1990s. There are banks and financial institutions around the globe running Java and COBOL software language systems from the same epoch. That's not to say that the public sector and finance are necessarily slow; it's just that sometimes these software services just become deeply embedded and entrenched. VP of engagement and field CTO at technology analyst house GigaOm is Jon Collins. Viewing the world of always-on cloud-native technologies that constantly seek to evolve enterprise IT away from legacy code, Collins says that even though it's a truism that an application becomes legacy the moment it has been deployed; these older COBOL age systems could still perform more effectively if they were given an additional layer of integration and management control. That integration and management promise is embodied in the comparatively new notion of platform engineering, with its self-service internal developer platform structures that enable developers to manage their deployment pipelines and operations infrastructure. Does Technical Debt Stifle AI? Unsurprisingly, it doesn't take AI long to feature in this debate these days. The cloud-native community advocates the need for technologies that far outstrip the big data tools that we considered contemporary a decade ago. Low-code workflow automation company Pegasystems Inc. is among those warning enterprises over the risks of technical debt and legacy systems in relation to the adoption of AI and onward to quantum etc. The firm conducted a study with UK-based research specialist Savanta, which suggested that legacy dependency happens because organizations can't stop supporting their legacy applications even if they'd like to, because the systems are still business critical. For its analysis, Pega defined technical debt and legacy systems as outdated hardware, software, or technology platforms that remain in use due to their critical role in business operations. This is despite challenges such as limited scalability, security vulnerabilities, high maintenance costs and incompatibility with modern technologies. According to Don Schuerman, chief technology officer, Pega, technical debt is the implied (often intangible) cost of additional work or strain experienced when using these applications in business. That strain is often down to the siloed nature of disconnected systems (this app doesn't connect to the backend and show my last transaction… and so on) and the cost of maintenance. Schuerman says that applications that are resource-intensive to maintain help in 'perpetuating an organizational culture of waste' today. Recognising the fact that some companies (less than 10% in Pega's study) feel legacy applications caused no problems for their business whatsoever, Schuerman and team suggest that almost half (47%) say their oldest legacy application is between 11-20 years old, while more than one in ten (16%) run apps between 21-30 years old. Pegasystems clearly used its study of legacy mindsets to its Pega Blueprint tool. This is workflow software that developers can use to 'feed legacy process documentation' into so that it can move outdated systems into cloud-ready, future-proof workflow applications. As detailed here before now, technology surveys (even the 'independently executed' ones) generally have a payload of 'findings' that they are designed to deliver. An alternative analysis of these issues by headless CMS company Storyblok suggested that developers harbor 'widespread dissatisfaction and embarrassment' due to the poor state of the tech stacks they work with. The company thinks that 'an overwhelming number of engineers' say that their technology stack is negatively impacting their job, with some even considering quitting in the past year. When asked what made these engineers most unhappy in their day-to-day jobs, the chief culprit was 'maintaining and fixing bugs on legacy systems', followed by 'dealing with non-technical stakeholders who don't understand technical limitations' and a lack of clear requirements and constantly shifting priorities. Again, Storyblok has a headless API-first developer-friendly content management system to sell, so it has a vested interest in highlighting the limitations of pre-cloud-native technologies. Looking at the issues here from a user and business safety perspective, Scott McKinnon, CSO for UK and Ireland at Palo Alto Networks says that legacy IT systems pose a severe, yet too often underestimated cybersecurity risk to organizations across every sector. 'Many businesses continue to rely on outdated infrastructure, software, and applications that were not designed to withstand the sophisticated, multi-faceted attacks that are in use today. While digital transformation accelerates, the foundational components of many enterprises remain rooted in the past, creating vast and exploitable attack surfaces that cybercriminals are quick to leverage,' explained McKinnon, speaking to press this month in London. Some agree that the UK public sector faces the same challenges, but at an even greater scale, as highlighted by a National Audit Office report. Although UK-specific, this free-to-view report has dedicated sections covering legacy systems and the challenges of implementing digital change in the face of outdated technologies. "The escalating challenges of technical debt are causing critical vulnerabilities across organizations globally. This is about far more than just legacy hardware; it encompasses accumulated shortcuts, unaddressed architectural flaws and the continued reliance on software and systems that are no longer supported or patched,' said McKinnon. 'As organizations rapidly adopt new digital initiatives, the underlying foundational technical debt creates a dangerously brittle security posture, providing easily exploitable avenues into critical assets that modern security solutions struggle to adequately protect." In search of the bottom line here, we may need to realize that legacy software will always exist. When (or if) we do get to a point where all enterprise applications are cloud-native and therefore more continuously updateable, we may have already entered the age of quantum computing, so even freshly cut cloud code will start to smell like it's past sell-by date. Yes, there are legacy software issues, yes modern workflow technologies are more efficient, no, we can't replace all legacy software tomorrow, no, generation-Z software developers are unlikely to learn COBOL rather than Python, yes, we need to find ways to live in a diverse world of dynamic software that's still changing. That might ultimately be what a modern approach to legacy software ends up meaning.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
WhaTap Named a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Infrastructure Monitoring Tools
The only Korean company recognized, which we believe validates global-level infrastructure monitoring capabilities WhaTap recognized for server, Kubernetes, and network performance monitoring SEOUL, South Korea, June 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- WhaTap Labs, a leading observability platform company headquartered in Korea, announced today that it has been named a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Infrastructure Monitoring Tools. In its latest Market Guide, Gartner provides insights into the evolving infrastructure monitoring landscape, key strategic recommendations, and a list of representative vendors. The report states, "Advanced infrastructure monitoring tools employ data analytics and machine learning to enhance performance by enabling real-time insights, rapid diagnosis and troubleshooting." Gartner also states: " As mature enterprises adopt cloud-native architectures, I&O teams have shifted their focus from troubleshooting toward root cause analysis in order to enhance resilience..….. As a result, Gartner forecasts demand growth for infrastructure monitoring tools at 10.1% for 2025." According to Gartner: "Infrastructure monitoring tools capture the health and resource utilization of IT infrastructure components wherever they reside (e.g., in a data center, at the edge, infrastructure as a service [IaaS] or platform as a service [PaaS] in the cloud). This enables infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to monitor and collate the availability and resource utilization data of physical, virtual and software entities — including servers, containers, network devices, database instances, hypervisors, storage and basic application monitoring. These tools collect data in real time and perform historical data analysis or trending of the elements they monitor." WhaTap was recognized in this Market Guide for its flagship solution's strength in server monitoring, Kubernetes monitoring, and network performance monitoring as a Representative Vendor. As the only Korean company included in the report, we believe WhaTap's listing demonstrates its strong technical capabilities and positions it among global infrastructure monitoring leaders. WhaTap Labs provides a real-time observability solution that enables rapid and accurate decision-making by analyzing IT operations data across the enterprise. The platform supports server, application, database, Kubernetes, and log monitoring in a comprehensive end-to-end full-stack environment. WhaTap is available as SaaS, private SaaS, or on-premises, ensuring high-performance monitoring regardless of the deployment model. IT operators and developers rely on WhaTap to quickly detect, analyze, and resolve diverse system issues in real time. Dongin Lee, CEO of WhaTap Labs, commented, "It's an honor to have our decade-long commitment to technology and innovation recognized globally. Starting as Korea's first SaaS-based monitoring service in 2015, WhaTap has evolved into a full-stack observability platform. We will continue delivering high-quality solutions that support our customers' digital transformation and stable IT operations, while accelerating our global expansion into markets such as Southeast Asia." Gartner, Market Guide for Infrastructure Monitoring Tools, 5 March 2025 Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. About WhaTap Labs Founded in July 2015, WhaTap Labs is a leading provider of integrated IT monitoring and observability solutions. As Korea's first SaaS-based monitoring service covering servers, applications, databases, and Kubernetes, WhaTap offers true observability by enabling real-time visibility into IT systems through a unified platform. Trusted by over 1,200 customers across industries, WhaTap helps developers and IT teams operate their systems safely and efficiently. Learn more at View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE WhaTap Labs Inc. Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
WhaTap Named a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Infrastructure Monitoring Tools
The only Korean company recognized, which we believe validates global-level infrastructure monitoring capabilities WhaTap recognized for server, Kubernetes, and network performance monitoring SEOUL, South Korea, June 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- WhaTap Labs, a leading observability platform company headquartered in Korea, announced today that it has been named a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Infrastructure Monitoring Tools. In its latest Market Guide, Gartner provides insights into the evolving infrastructure monitoring landscape, key strategic recommendations, and a list of representative vendors. The report states, "Advanced infrastructure monitoring tools employ data analytics and machine learning to enhance performance by enabling real-time insights, rapid diagnosis and troubleshooting." Gartner also states: " As mature enterprises adopt cloud-native architectures, I&O teams have shifted their focus from troubleshooting toward root cause analysis in order to enhance resilience..….. As a result, Gartner forecasts demand growth for infrastructure monitoring tools at 10.1% for 2025." According to Gartner: "Infrastructure monitoring tools capture the health and resource utilization of IT infrastructure components wherever they reside (e.g., in a data center, at the edge, infrastructure as a service [IaaS] or platform as a service [PaaS] in the cloud). This enables infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to monitor and collate the availability and resource utilization data of physical, virtual and software entities — including servers, containers, network devices, database instances, hypervisors, storage and basic application monitoring. These tools collect data in real time and perform historical data analysis or trending of the elements they monitor." WhaTap was recognized in this Market Guide for its flagship solution's strength in server monitoring, Kubernetes monitoring, and network performance monitoring as a Representative Vendor. As the only Korean company included in the report, we believe WhaTap's listing demonstrates its strong technical capabilities and positions it among global infrastructure monitoring leaders. WhaTap Labs provides a real-time observability solution that enables rapid and accurate decision-making by analyzing IT operations data across the enterprise. The platform supports server, application, database, Kubernetes, and log monitoring in a comprehensive end-to-end full-stack environment. WhaTap is available as SaaS, private SaaS, or on-premises, ensuring high-performance monitoring regardless of the deployment model. IT operators and developers rely on WhaTap to quickly detect, analyze, and resolve diverse system issues in real time. Dongin Lee, CEO of WhaTap Labs, commented, "It's an honor to have our decade-long commitment to technology and innovation recognized globally. Starting as Korea's first SaaS-based monitoring service in 2015, WhaTap has evolved into a full-stack observability platform. We will continue delivering high-quality solutions that support our customers' digital transformation and stable IT operations, while accelerating our global expansion into markets such as Southeast Asia." Gartner, Market Guide for Infrastructure Monitoring Tools, 5 March 2025 Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. About WhaTap Labs Founded in July 2015, WhaTap Labs is a leading provider of integrated IT monitoring and observability solutions. As Korea's first SaaS-based monitoring service covering servers, applications, databases, and Kubernetes, WhaTap offers true observability by enabling real-time visibility into IT systems through a unified platform. Trusted by over 1,200 customers across industries, WhaTap helps developers and IT teams operate their systems safely and efficiently. Learn more at View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE WhaTap Labs Inc.
