At a glance
Legacy sources: On-prem estates · Legacy Windows apps · Obsolete OS · Specialized peripherals · Regulated workloads
Modern targets: AWS · Azure · C# .NET · Golang · Cloud APIs
Typical timeline: 2 months to 18 months
Project range: $30,000 to $400,000
U.S. delivery: 100% U.S. citizen workforce, U.S.-soil delivery
What to know before you modernize
Modernizing with Hybrid Solutions
Hybrid is the right answer when something genuinely cannot move to the cloud: regulated data residency, hardware peripherals, deterministic latency requirements, or just the boring fact that a piece of equipment expects a serial port and an old PC under a desk. The cloud parts of the system get the elasticity, observability, and deployment discipline of cloud-native. The on-premises parts stay where they belong. Phased, not heroic.
Overcoming Legacy System Obstacles
Legacy applications often pose real integration challenges: 16-bit or 32-bit dependencies that resist 64-bit migration, peripheral hardware with no modern driver support, and operating systems past their support windows that nonetheless run mission-critical processes. Hybrid modernization isolates these constraints so they do not block the parts of the system that can move forward.
Advantages of Hybrid Solutions
Hybrid earns its complexity when the alternative is forcing a bad fit. A factory floor application talking to PLCs over a deterministic industrial protocol does not belong in a public cloud region halfway across the country. A reporting and analytics layer over the same data absolutely does. Hybrid lets each part live where it works best. The real engineering work is in the seams: the integration patterns, the data synchronization, and the operational handoffs between environments.
Comprehensive Hybrid Solutions for Modernization
The starting question is what actually has to stay on-premises and why. From there: modern application code (C# .NET or Go), cloud backend APIs on AWS or Azure where they make sense, cross-platform clients where users are mobile, and event-driven integration between the two halves. For programs requiring U.S. citizen workforce and U.S.-soil delivery, we operate entirely under those constraints. We are not currently DDTC-registered for ITAR, and we are honest about that during scoping.
Deliverables
- Modernized application in C# .NET or Golang
- Cloud backend APIs on AWS or Azure
- Cross-platform access (desktop, tablet, iOS, Android)
- Re-architected around business domains (microservices, CQRS)
- 100% U.S. citizen, U.S.-soil delivery