Application transformation company appOrbit exited stealth mode this week with a platform based on software containers that can repurpose pretty much any application so it can run in a modern computing environment.

The San Jose, California-based startup noted that many organizations are facing a race against time to transform their information technology infrastructure and applications. Businesses can benefit from much greater agility and huge cost savings by doing so, putting themselves in a more competitive position. But digital transformation is a tough challenge, as companies must contend with problems such as the high costs and the time-consuming nature of software testing, data management and production break-fix.

AppOrbit reckons it has the solution to those problems. Its platform can speed up the movement of legacy applications such as Oracle Corp.’s or Siebel’s to any kind of cloud or container infrastructure. In addition, the platform also provides a framework companies can use to build, deploy and manage microservices-based applications that can easily be moved to any kind of infrastructure.

Specifically, what appOrbit does is it enables the management of both new and legacy apps to run on any cloud or container technology without altering a single line of code. AppOrbit can do this because it can separate applications from their underlying infrastructure and data stores and make them portable. What this means is that application environments can easily be cloned for new developments, production fixes and test data management. Doing so accelerates application modernization projects, the company said.

AppOrbit reckons the main benefit of doing this is to avoid being locked in to a particular supplier. In addition, companies using its platform will be able to choose any infrastructure platform they want, based on availability, price, reliability and other factors, rather than being forced to use the original platforms their apps were built to run on.

The company boasts more than 20 large customers, including Ericsson AB, Infosys Ltd. and KPIT Technologies. Last year it secured a $10 million Series A funding round led by Kleiner Perkins.

“We founded appOrbit with the vision to simplify the holistic management of applications, regardless of whether three-tier or microservice, cloud-native or legacy enterprise, across any cloud,” co-founder and Chief Executive Rahul Ravulur said in a statement. “All applications should be on-demand, self-healing, scalable, composable, secure and completely portable to any environment, not the hard-to-update monoliths trapped on a single infrastructure they are today.”

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