Why move your Pega on-prem apps to Cloud?

Many Pega customers are yet to migrate to the Cloud and are running Pega on bare metal or virtual machines (vm). There is some consolation: the US IRS is still migrating its assembler and Cobol code from the 50’s into Java. But unless your business processes are frozen or your CIO is not looking to reduce the technical debt in your company, you may be under some pressure to answer: “Why haven’t you moved Pega to the cloud yet?”.

If your business processes running on Pega are stable and workloads predictable, you might think there’s no need to change. After all, “if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it,” right?

• However, if your company is transitioning all IT operations from traditional bare metal to a more elastic, scalable, and resilient infrastructure—whether public or private cloud—this could be a game-changer.
• Alternatively, if your business processes are evolving and your Pega team is struggling to keep up with new requirements, it’s time to reconsider your approach.

In the first scenario, you’re in luck. Pega has already migrated its architecture to support containerised deployments using Kubernetes. Deploy Pega in containers using Kubernetes.

In the second scenario, you might be grappling with identifying which processes need enhancement, how to improve user experience, or realising that new Pega features could significantly reduce development time.

Despite the fear of introducing changes and potential production issues, it’s essential to embrace the benefits these new features can bring to your business processes. It also makes complete sense to stay ahead by leveraging the groundbreaking GenAI capabilities of the Pega platform. More on this later.

In absence of a Cloud, provisioning new environments using the traditional manual approach on bare metal can take weeks. This timeframe doesn’t even account for the additional delays involved in approving the purchase of new equipment.

This inefficiency can lead to stagnation in your production environment. In contrast, cloud infrastructure allows you to treat your infrastructure as code, bringing agility, flexibility, consistency, on-demand environments, and better control over versioning. This is especially crucial for applying security patches and hotfixes.

With Pega, you have the option to transition to Pega Cloud, where Pega manages all infrastructure at a premium service level. However, if your CTO mandates strict data residency, security, and cost control policies, Pega offers the flexibility to deploy on public clouds like AWS, GCP, or Azure, or even on your preferred container platform, such as OpenShift.

To sum up, migrating Pega solutions to the cloud is not just a technological shift; it’s a strategic decision to drive sustained growth and innovation. Embrace the future with confidence and explore the limitless possibilities of the cloud. We combine Pega expertise with cloud migration experience to offer you the best of both worlds, and we can certainly help you with this transition.

Should you have any questions or need further information, contact us and we’d be happy to have a chat!

TL;DR

You want to move your Pega workloads to Cloud to:

• Reduce Technical Debt: Your technical debt hinders innovation. Cloud migration reduces this burden.
• Achieve Business Agility: Cloud services offer the flexibility and scalability required to adapt to changing business imperatives swiftly.
• Stay Competitive: Leverage cutting-edge technologies like Pega Blueprint GenAI to ensure your platform evolves with market demands.

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