IT Leaders Spend On Cutting-Edge To Refactor Legacy Tech
ComputerWeekly, Tuesday, February 27th, 2024
Organisations carry around a huge amount of technical debt, which holds back innovation and limits application architectural decisions
The TechTarget and Enterprise Strategy Group's Technology spending intentions survey has found IT decision-makers are speeding ahead with application modernisation initiatives.
Almost a quarter (23%) of the 1,432 IT decision-makers surveyed said they are refactoring existing applications.
While it's relatively easy to start a 'greenfield' application and build it with a cloud-native architecture, most organisations have a huge quantity of older applications that can't take advantage of a cloud-native architecture.