Category: Database

Due to the legacy nature and and high maintenance cost of its legacy AS400 application running in an on-premises data center, a large global oil and gas company decided to move to the cloud as part of its application modernization to reduce cost and improve productivity. Learn how DXC Technology can help migrate workloads to AWS in large-scale environments and bridge the gap in migrating applications across traditional, private cloud, and AWS environments.

Organizations running Oracle Database on vSphere environments are looking for migration paths for the database and the best path for them. In this post, explore database migration paths to AWS from on-premises vSphere environments and the benefit of integrating VMware Cloud on AWS with AWS Cloud Databases. We’ll also discuss how each migration path helps customers streamline operations, reduce costs, and improve overall business agility.

Ensuring the security and proper management of sensitive information is paramount, and Collibra Protect and AWS Lake Formation offer a powerful combination to address the growing challenges of enterprise data access governance. Learn how Collibra Protect, part of the Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud, protects sensitive data and makes it available to specified groups of users. AWS Lake Formation is a fully managed serverless service that allows you to build clean and secure data lakes in days.

CockroachDB is a cloud-native, distributed SQL database designed for applications with data-intensive workloads. AWS Database Migration Service is a managed migration and replication service that helps move database and analytics workloads to AWS quickly, securely, and with minimal downtime and zero data loss. Learn how AWS DMS can help migrate data to CockroachDB, and walk through an example migration.

Getting the same performance on open-source databases as you get on commercial-grade databases can be challenging. EPAM’s database assessment tool, migVisor, can play a key role in the overall migration methodology. Learn how using migVisor in combination with other AWS assessment solutions and services can help you gain a holistic view of your environment and make informed decisions to determine the feasibility of migrating your databases and correlated applications to AWS.

To curb spend and unlock scale, Precisely collaborates with AWS to provide the means to synchronize mainframe data in the cloud at speed and power modern applications. Learn how Precisely Connect integrates data seamlessly from legacy systems into next-generation cloud and data platforms. Using Precisely Connect, data from sequential files, VSAM datasets, or databases such as IMS and Db2 can be transferred to Amazon RDS.

Graph databases are useful for solving problems related to connected data, and represent data as nodes and enable organizations to uncover relationships between data that’s not possible with other approaches. Experts from AWS and Neo4j explore four types of databases and the most common applications for each: relational, document, in-memory, and graph. We’ll cover how different industries use graph databases and how they work as part of an AWS architecture.

As more workloads move to AWS, secure and robust solutions are needed for backing up AWS managed services such as Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle. Learn how fast and easy it is to protect your data securely with Druva, an AWS Competency Partner and SaaS-based platform to protect and manage enterprise data across endpoints, data centers, and native cloud workloads. We’ll also demonstrate how Druva can be configured to back up Amazon RDS Custom safely and securely.

The use of commercial databases like Oracle DB and middleware like Oracle WebLogic can become blockers in a company’s migration journey to AWS. Customers find the licensing and maintenance of commercial applications expensive, and are often locked in between license renewals of Oracle DB. Learn how Hexaware leverages its well-defined migration methodology and automated cloud migration and management platform Amaze for replatforming of legacy applications.

Migrating a company’s database architecture from an on-premises database to the cloud can be a complicated and time-consuming process. One of the critical decisions is the choice of tooling to deliver the migration, and how to get the best out of the selected tool. This post discusses key learnings and experiences Fujitsu has gained through its use of AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) during database migration projects, primarily from Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migrations.