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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are handy tools for businesses to get much-needed insights, innovate, and make informed decisions. By adopting AI and ML, companies can improve processes, enrich their customer journey, and unearth new growth prospects.

The growth of cloud computing is one of the most prominent technological advancements in recent times. At Syone, we understand the potential revolutionary role that could be played by cloud solutions to influence business operations and therefore wish to help you take advantage of this through the adoption of technologies like Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, OpenShift, and Red Hat Cloudforms.

Cloud computing offers a wide range of benefits for businesses of all sizes. By moving your applications, data, and processes to the cloud, you can achieve:

• Flexibility: Cloud-based services and applications can be accessed from anywhere at any time, enabling remote work and enhancing collaboration among team members;

Organizations are always striving to gain a competitive advantage in the rapidly changing digital world. To achieve this, they must have a comprehensive understanding of their IT infrastructure, application performance, and overall operational efficiency. That is where Syone’s observability and data monitoring services come into play with these solutions that present several options for businesses to consider growing with insights.

Everyone is talking about containers and app modernisation, right? It’s not just because it’s a trend but is actually a big improvement for DevOps team on how to work and how to optimize their time and experience on a project.

So, in this article you’ll find out more about containers, containerisation, app modernisation, an example of a solution for your business and more.

What are Containers after all?

Containers are self-contained apps that provide a standard way to package your application's code, configurations, and dependencies into a single object.

For you to quickly get an idea of where we’re heading, here is the TL;DR version about microservices, some of its main benefits and why it’s a big thing:

• Quickly scale and deliver new features and upgrades to market
• Rapidly iterate to find your next business model
• Improve and empower developer engagement

With this in mind, let’s take a step back and discuss a bit about monolithic apps, the counterpart to microservices.

Monolithic or packaged apps: why they’re getting old

The traditional way of building enterprise applications, using a monolithic approach, is becoming problematic as applications get larger and more complex or when your business needs to make adaptations to its product/service in order to respond to demand.