CAST helps accelerate Cloud Migration with new software intelligence
18 März 2021 - 3:00PM
CAST, the pioneer and category leader in Software Intelligence,
today announced major technological advancements to speed up the
time to benefit of migrating application portfolios to the cloud
and to reduce cybersecurity risks associated with open source
software (OSS) components.
As organizations migrate their most critical workloads to cloud,
decisions on which applications to migrate and how are often based
on partial data, which results in unexpected roadblocks, delays,
risks, and cost overruns. Moreover, those who do invest time to
assess application cloud readiness may spend weeks to evaluate a
single application.
CAST Highlight, a software intelligence SaaS platform for rapid
analysis of application portfolios, assesses cloud readiness and
OSS exposures in minutes. Its latest release takes the ability to
accelerate migration planning to the next level with the
introduction of its unique Portfolio Advisor for
Cloud and its exclusive Open Source Software
Intelligence Database (OSSIDB).
Portfolio Advisor for Cloud
The most critical and time-consuming aspect of planning cloud
migrations is determining if, where, when, and how to take
advantage of containers, more cloud native services, Platform as a
Service (PaaS), and serverless. The Portfolio Advisor for Cloud
automatically segments application portfolios comprised of 100s (or
even 1000s) of apps in seconds using a model similar to the
ubiquitous Gartner 5 Rs. It automatically recommends which
applications are the best candidates to Rehost, Refactor,
Rearchitect, Rebuild, or Retire using fact-based software
intelligence derived from the source code. Users can customize the
recommendations and tailor their roadmaps directly within the
Portfolio Advisor for Cloud user interface.
The new capability builds on the cloud readiness insights CAST
Highlight already provides such as identifying cloud migration
blockers and boosters, estimating cloud migration effort, and
recommending best-fit cloud native services.
Open Source Software Intelligence Database
(OSSIDB)
Understanding the cybersecurity risks associated with the use of
OSS components is also required when planning successful cloud
migrations. However, the Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures
(CVEs) officially reported in the National Vulnerability Database
(NVD) often become published months after their initial discovery
in OSS, which gives hackers ample time to exploit them before they
get addressed. The exclusive OSSIDB from CAST tackles this problem
head on. Traditional Software Composition Analysis (SCA) products
identify reported CVEs from the NVD and some augment the findings
via manual research by human analysts. CAST, on the other hand,
automatically identifies possible future CVEs, that are not yet
reported, by analyzing the most popular OSS components as soon as
they change, detecting Common Weakness Enumerations (CWEs) in them,
and classifying them as potential CVEs in its OSSIDB.
The OSSIDB augments the unique SCA insights already available in
CAST Highlight such as the Open Source Safety index which combines
vulnerability, licensing, and obsolescence risk into a single
score, as well as the ability to analyze OSS risk across an entire
portfolio and prioritize remediation based on the business impact
of each application.
Growing Ecosystem
The advancements announced today by CAST are made possible by
its $200M+ investment in its “MRI for software” for automated
analysis of the structural condition of software assets, which is
now used by a growing range of CAST Business Partners. Blackbelts
from Microsoft Azure Services and AWS use CAST for reducing the
time to assess application readiness for cloud migration from weeks
to days. IBM experts use CAST with their clients for faster and
safer application modernization. Other leading global SIs -
Accenture, CGI, Cognizant, Infosys, LTI, Wipro; management
consultancies - BCG, Bain, EY; and numerous regional CAST partners
now leverage CAST to accelerate digital transformation of their
clients.
More Flexible Pricing and Packaging
To support the growing global adoption of software intelligence
and the explosive growth in the CAST Highlight business, CAST now
offers three editions of CAST Highlight – Complete Insights, Cloud
Insights, and SCA insights, which allows clients the flexibility to
choose the option that best meets their portfolio needs at
attractive price points.
For more information, please contact Stephanie Watkins at
s.watkins@castsoftware.com.
About CAST
CAST is the pioneer and category leader in Software
Intelligence, providing insight into the structural condition of
software assets. CAST technology is renowned as the most accurate
“MRI for Software”, which delivers actionable insights into
software composition, architectures, database structures, critical
flaws, quality grades, cloud readiness levels and work effort
metrics. It is used globally by thousands of forward-looking
digital leaders to make objective decisions, accelerate
modernization, and raise the security and resiliency of mission
critical software. Visit castsoftware.com.
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