Businesses everywhere have come to acknowledge the importance of developing software applications that accelerate business processes and differentiate services. But, without the development of software as a core competency, building an entire data center doesn’t make sense.

As a result of this knowledge, many businesses are turning to the cloud to develop and run applications and information systems. Businesses value the ability to develop and test their apps in the cloud, and then run production workloads on location.

Some of these businesses have made the decision to migrate applications to the cloud as well—including on-premises apps, packaged apps, web-based apps, open source-based apps, and other traditional applications. Once migrated, these applications can be integrated with other on-premise and cloud applications.