New fixed-price service offers the ability to containerize and manage a legacy application in five days or less, without touching the source code.
Docker Wednesday unveiled Modernize Traditional Applications (MTA), a new program to help companies bring the benefits of containers to legacy enterprise applications without modifying the app source code. This fixed-price service will containerize one legacy application, in its current form, in just five days or less.
Docker is making the program available with partners Avanade, Cisco Systems, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Microsoft. MTA includes professional services Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) Standard (Docker Datacenter) for application management, and hybrid cloud infrastructure from HPE, Cisco or other partners.
For Docker, this gets companies started down the path of embracing a microservices architecture. It’s a hot topic for partners, too, because moving enterprises onto a microservices architecture could lead to recurring revenue since the architecture allows for continuous improvement – breaking large system problems into smaller, manageable chunks means partners and companies can incrementally improve software applications and services over time versus doing huge, disruptive system updates.
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Docker is both reacting to a market need and giving itself a path to keep growing. “We think it’ll help us expand into net new customers very, very quickly,” Docker’s COO, Scott Johnston, told CRN. “To start, for the last six months, we’ve been working with existing customers to refine the methodology and tooling and the messaging – and because existing customers already knew Docker, we started at a good place already because they knew the value of containers.
