In Budget 2018, $110 million was earmarked over six years to support SSC’s Workload Migration program, with the objective to modernize and enhance the government’s digital services. These funds are to be accessed by SSC’s partner departments to help them to modernize and to migrate their applications from older data centres to cloud solutions or to more modern data centres. Through the Benefits Delivery Modernization (BDM) program and the Technical Debt Remediation (TDR) initiatives, ESDC will be addressing many of the legacy systems and applications currently residing in legacy data centre. However, it will not address all of it; some applications will remain in the legacy data centres and will continue to present risks related to infrastructure, architecture as well as technology used. The WLM program plans on dealing with these remaining applications. The preliminary assessment shows that out of 333 applications in the Montréal and Moncton Data Centres, 22 require immediate attention due to aging IT, and 162 require a high level of attention in the coming years. The application life cycle indicates that 272 of them will need to be replatformed/replaced/rebuilt/revised/retired in a near future in order to adapt to the ongoing and growing demands in IT. Applications need to be hosted in a secured and stable environment, which they will not have if we leave them in the legacy data centres.