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When the bottleneck is not your agent, but the applications it depends on Introduction You design an agentic workflow to automate order fulfillment without first evaluating whether your applications are ready for agent interaction. The agent monitors incoming orders, validates inventory, authorizes payment, and triggers shipping. In isolation, each step works. In production, the dependencies […]

Your VP of Engineering wants to know which of your 200 services to modernize first. Your AI team wants to deploy agents against your order management system next quarter. Your CISO wants to know what happens when an autonomous agent calls an API that was built in 2014 with hardcoded credentials and no rate limiting. […]

This post has been co-written by Damien Santé from CAST Introduction Enterprise organizations exploring agentic AI face a common challenge: with hundreds or thousands of applications in their portfolio, how do you determine which systems are ready for autonomous AI agent interaction, and which need modernization first? In our previous post we described agentic readiness […]

Migrating hundreds of servers from an on-premises VMware environment to AWS involves coordinating across teams, accounts, and tools. You need to set up your target environments, plan waves, deploy replication agents, monitor their progress, run tests, and perform cutover, often across multiple AWS accounts. Each step can be challenging on its own, requiring careful planning […]

AWS Transform for mainframe replatform is a migration service that helps organizations accelerate the modernization of their mainframe workloads to AWS. As organizations pursue their mainframe modernization journey, migrating mainframe systems to AWS has become a strategic imperative. The service provides an end-to-end automated migration pathway, including tooling, guidance, and self-managed runtime environments with Rocket […]

Introduction When planning or executing a cloud migration, you face a choice between migration strategies: rehost your applications quickly to meet data center exit deadlines, or invest the time to modernize and replatform them into cloud-native architectures. Modernization can take many forms, from serverless architectures, managed services, containers, or a combination, depending on the workload […]

Estimated time to complete: 90–120 minutes  Level: Advanced (400)   Microsoft ended extended support for Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) in 2008, yet thousands of mission-critical applications across financial services, insurance, healthcare, and manufacturing still depend on it.  These applications contain decades of business logic, but maintaining them becomes more difficult each year.  VB6 developers are increasingly expensive to hire as fewer remain in the […]

Many enterprises have used the mainframe as a platform of choice for their core business processing over decades. The simplicity and speed of initial development in monolithic architecture have consequently resulted in the creation of large (10M+ LOC) and exceptionally large (100M+ LOC) mono-repos and complex codebases. When customers are ready to modernize these applications, […]

Monolithic databases have long been a cornerstone of enterprise applications, but as organizations scale and adopt cloud-native architectures, these databases increasingly become bottlenecks. A structured approach to modernizing these monolithic databases addresses increased cost, scalability constraints, architectural rigidity, and performance degradation that prevent independent deployment and rapid innovation. Organizations embarking on cloud migration often discover […]

Introduction Organizations are modernizing their mission-critical systems on AWS to drive competitive advantage and meet evolving market demands. The drivers are clear with benefits such as increased scalability, improved application performance and reliability, accelerated time to market for new features, and advance AI/ML capabilities. Unlike traditional upgrades, application modernization is a fundamental shift in how […]