Modernizing Off the Shelf Software - Simplify, Scale and Future Proof Your Applications

A series of webinars on demand

OVERVIEW

OpenShift

In today’s digital landscape, business success depends on delivering exceptional customer experiences and rapidly entering new markets. AI, Cloud, DevOps, Containers, Microservices, and Security are at the core of modern innovation, but unlocking their full potential requires the right cloud strategy and streamlined operations.

As organizations modernize their IT environments, containerizing commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications is becoming essential to improve scalability, performance, and security. However, managing this transformation across diverse infrastructures can seem complex.

Join us to discover how Red Hat OpenShift provides a unified, easy-to-manage platform for running all your COTS applications. Learn how a standardized container platform with shared services can simplify infrastructure management, enhance security, improve resiliency, and accelerate innovation—ultimately delivering significant cost savings and a faster path to business growth.

 
 

 

What’s in it for you?

Join us as we explore how running your COTS workloads on OpenShift Container Platform can drive efficiency, scalability, and innovation. Key takeaways include:

  • Maximize ROI & Reduce Costs – See how organizations achieved up to 468% ROI in three years with Red Hat OpenShift Cloud Services, while cutting VM footprints by 50%
  • Unify & Modernize Your Workloads – Bring all your COTS applications into a single, modern platform—on your terms
  • Simplify Management & Boost Agility – Discover how OpenShift streamlines operations, scales seamlessly, and enables a cloud-native approach for AI, VMs, and containers
  • Real-World Success Stories – Gain insights from businesses that have successfully migrated and optimized their COTS workloads with OpenShift
  • Accelerate App Modernization – Learn how to modernize legacy applications in place using Red Hat tooling, reducing technical debt and freeing up resources for innovation

Don’t miss this opportunity to simplify your COTS modernization journey and unlock new business potential.

What you’ll experience

The “Modernizing Off the Shelf Software” webinar series delivers more than just theoretical insights—it offers a practical, multi-dimensional learning journey that meets professionals where they are, across industries and technical backgrounds:

  • Real-World Use Cases: Each session features concrete examples of how organizations are tackling the challenges of legacy COTS modernization—what worked, what didn’t, and why
  • Expert-Led Discussions: Led by architects, product managers, and modernization specialists who have done the work. Attendees gain credible, experience-backed perspectives—not just slides and buzzwords
  • Demos and Frameworks: See how to containerise, extend, or integrate COTS with modern platforms like OpenShift. Get actionable playbooks, reference architectures, and modernization toolkits
  • Multi-Stakeholder Focus: The series speaks to technical, business, and operational roles—ensuring everyone from architects to procurement managers gets relevant insights
  • AI-Enhanced Strategies: Learn how AI can accelerate COTS modernization—from automating code analysis and dependency mapping to enabling smarter observability and support tooling
  • Security-First Modernization: Understand how to modernize with security built in—not bolted on. Sessions explore zero trust, vulnerability management in legacy COTS, and how containerized COTS improves compliance posture

Who should attend?

This event series is valuable for a wide range of professionals, including:

Enterprise Architects Why: As custodians for the long-term technology strategy, understanding modernization approaches helps align legacy COTS systems with cloud-native, API-driven, and containerized architectures
IT Directors / CIOs Why: Modernizing COTS can reduce technical debt, improve agility, and cut long-term operational costs—key goals for any technology leader
Application Owners / Product Managers Why: Learning how to refactor or extend COTS software will help you improve performance, resilience, and time-to-market for new features
DevOps and Platform Engineers Why: These teams often maintain or integrate COTS into CI/CD pipelines or cloud platforms. Understanding modernization techniques like containerization or operator integration helps streamline operations and improve reliability
Software Vendors / ISVs Why: As a COTS product creator/contributor, attending will provide insights into how customers are modernizing and what capabilities you should support (e.g., technology compatibility, operator support, cloud-readiness)
Business Analysts / Digital Transformation Leads Why: The series of webinars will help you understand how COTS modernization supports transformation initiatives, from improving user experience to enabling faster innovation
Security and Compliance Officers Why: Legacy COTS often lacks modern security features or cloud compliance. Modernizing improves posture and helps meet evolving standards (e.g., FedRAMP, ISO 27001, etc.)
Procurement and Vendor Managers Why: Understanding modernization will help you evaluate COTS vendors’ cloud-readiness and long-term value, and better engage in renewal or replacement decisions
 
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