The “Golden Ticket” for Cloud-Native Modernization

Market consolidation and aggressive licensing changes from legacy hypervisor vendors have created a narrow financial window for enterprises to migrate to cloud-native stacks. SUSE's GM of Cloud Native and FIS ASP's Managing Director discuss how organizations are using this moment to consolidate legacy VMware migrations, new microservices, and AI workloads onto a single Kubernetes-based foundation. Key topics include running mission-critical SAP workloads on Kubernetes virtualization, storage and networking parity, day-two operations, and the trade-offs between lift-and-shift versus re-platforming to containers. The core argument is that treating this as one unified modernization effort rather than three separate projects yields a cleaner architecture.