The cloud has become a standard operating practice for companies as it brings the necessary levels of agility required for digital transformation, be it in private cloud environments or public cloud providers. It is essential to understand that the cloud operating model can only achieve the level of agility required to meet the demands of the business if every infrastructure component has been fully modernized. Cloud architects I’ve talked to have echoed a sentiment that goes, “You’re only as agile as your least agile component,” which, in many cases, is the legacy hardware load balancer.
