CAST helps advance multi-cloud adoption with new software intelligence
24 Juni 2021 - 4:15PM
CAST, the pioneer and category leader in Software Intelligence,
today announced new technological advancements in CAST Highlight -
the software intelligence product for rapid application analysis -
to help enterprises increase readiness for deploying critical
applications across multiple cloud platforms.
Multi-Cloud Readiness Insights
Organizations considering a multi-cloud strategy for their
critical applications struggle to develop software that would be
deployable across multiple cloud platforms. CAST Highlight’s new,
first of a kind, Multi-Cloud Readiness insights pinpoint the
specific code patterns within an application that should be removed
or avoided for it to be deployed on multiple cloud platforms, or to
assure its future cloud portability. For example, CAST Highlight
automatically identifies the use of a cloud provider-specific
document storage service, which may work well in a single cloud
model, but should be reconsidered if multi-cloud is the plan.
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IBM Cloud Service Recommendations
Realizing the full promise of cloud necessitates adoption of
cloud native services once an application is migrated to the cloud.
All major cloud providers have extensive, vendor-specific catalogs
of native services that can become quite overwhelming. CAST
Highlight makes the selection easier by recommending the best
suited cloud services, based on the technical characteristics of an
application. CAST Highlight’s latest release now recommends
best-suited IBM Cloud native services. For example, when CAST
Highlight automatically detects that an application is performing
manipulation of persistent files, the IBM Cloud Object Storage
service is recommended, along with the relevant documentation for
deploying the service. This new capability is in addition to the
cloud native service recommendations already available in the
product for Microsoft Azure and AWS.
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Cloud Readiness Index
This month marks four years since CAST released its exclusive
Cloud Readiness Index within CAST Highlight - the first product on
the market enabling organizations to automatically analyze their
application source code and identify specific code blockers that
prevent or hinder an application from being migrated to Cloud PaaS.
Today, more than 200 organizations use CAST Highlight to see what’s
inside tens of thousands of applications and speed up their
migration to cloud, such as Wells Fargo, BMW, SNCF, and the US Air
Force, Army, and Navy. Global System Integrators - Accenture, CGI,
Cognizant, Infosys, LTI, Wipro, and Management Consultancy firms -
BCG, Bain, EY, extensively use CAST Highlight to help accelerate
digital transformation for their clients. Learn more about the
latest release of CAST Highlight here.
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. Contact Stephanie
Watkins at s.watkins@castsoftware.com.