Poor app migration could kill your cloud ROI

Application migration projects that move systems from traditional computing platforms to cloud-based platforms are becoming commonplace. I'm up to my armpits in this world right now, and I've found there are many lessons to be learned. These application migration projects move from older Microsoft and Unix-based platforms to comparable cloud-based systems, with PaaS or IaaS as the targets. The idea is to get the code up, get the data up, get it recompiled and retested, and you're done -- but that's not the reality. The ability to use the native features of public or private clouds is the real endgame. You can't do that without some code and data redos, where the applications go through needed transformations to rock the cloud-native APIs.