IDG Contributor Network: 5 reasons for containerizing your legacy Windows Server applications

Applications are the lifeblood of your business and keeping them alive and well on modern infrastructure is essential to maintaining operational excellence. With Microsoft no longer supporting Windows Server (WS) 2003 and support for WS 2008 officially being discontinued in January of 2020, the reasons to modernize your legacy applications are only growing. Cost of maintenance will skyrocket, while security and compliance risks will increase without regular patches. So, the inevitable challenge