Your Sterling Platform Is Carrying More Than It Was Built For.
Sterling Containerization helps scale your integration platform for high transaction volumes. Improve uptime, reduce costs, and modernize without replacing systems.
Peak volumes, partner growth, and every new integration are quietly pushing your legacy Sterling environment past its limits. Containerization gives you elastic scale, zero-downtime upgrades, and a cloud-ready architecture – without rebuilding the platform your business runs on.
Scale Was Never Part of the Original Design
Monolithic, resource-heavy Sterling environments hold up fine at yesterday’s volumes. But as partner ecosystems expand and transaction data multiplies, the same infrastructure that once felt dependable starts working against you – and every workaround costs more than the last.
- Systems that can’t scale during peak transaction volumes
- Infrastructure costs climb – and refuse to scale back down in quiet periods
- Upgrades mean extended downtime and disruption
- Manual detection and restart of failed services
- Limited API compatibility with legacy EDI
- Complex CI/CD and DevOps integration
- Slow trading partner onboarding
Scaling challenges in integration aren’t an IT inconvenience they’re a direct hit to business performance and uptime.
Modernize the Engine. Keep the Platform.
- Containerize your Sterling environment for elastic, on-demand scalability
- Auto-scale out for peak loads, auto-scale in to cut idle infrastructure cost
- Real-time visibility and monitoring across every integration
- Blue/Green deployments mean upgrades with zero downtime
- Move toward a modern, microservices-based architecture – no platform migration required
- Built-in encryption, access controls, and compliance-ready configuration
Move from infrastructure limitations to scalable, resilient integration without rebuilding a single system you rely on today.
Faster Deployments
Reduction in TCO
Lower Infrastructure Cost
Uptime
Apply sterling containerization to a defined use case.
Evaluate a representative Sterling workload under the target deployment model. Review resource constraints and supported scaling behavior alongside storage, connectivity and transaction recovery requirements.
Define the engagement scope.
Assess the Sterling applications, supported deployment options, platform dependencies and current operating procedures before planning containerization. Review persistence, networking, identity, secrets, scheduled workloads and external partner connectivity. Containerization must preserve the business exchange behavior while establishing a maintainable deployment and support model.
Validate the operating result.
Rehearse representative partner transactions, batch windows, node recovery and deployment changes in a non-production environment. Validate storage behavior and restart handling rather than assuming that a running container means the application is ready. Agree rollback and reconciliation procedures for interrupted exchanges before cutover.
Prepare for a focused working session.
Bring installation details, configuration exports, customization records, infrastructure requirements and performance baselines. Define the environment build, deployment pipeline, regression tests and monitoring coverage included in the engagement. The resulting plan should make ownership clear across the integration, platform, security and support teams.
Make the next step specific.
Bring your operating context, priorities and questions. We’ll help identify the relevant next step.
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