IDG Contributor Network: How to containerize your legacy apps without sweating

MetLife will turn 150 years old next year and the venerable company is still using applications that were written in 1980s.If you think MetLife is unique, think again. According to a 2016 Fortune article, "the average age of a Fortune 500 company is 80 years."In a keynote speech at DockerCon, Aaron Ades, an assistant vice president at MetLife, explained the challenges companies like MetLife face with legacy applications. Here we have a 150 year-old company, banking on a technology that is less t