Tag: AWS Snowball

Most enterprise customers are trying to migrate their on-premises data warehouse from Oracle or other on-premises solutions to Amazon Redshift. Learn how TEKsystems strives to put forth a series of tools, technologies, and methodologies to meet customers in their current AWS cloud journey path. With a phased migration approach, TEKsystems’s customer realized immediate savings moving off an on-premises data warehouse while running its current applications against Amazon Redshift through partner solutions.

Wipro has helped multiple SAP customers seeking to move their SAP applications to AWS to achieve agility, innovation at high speed, and improved resilience. For such migrations, Wipro leverages its FullStride Cloud Services which incorporates the company’s SAP Safe Passage Framework and helps customers assess, migrate, and seamlessly transition to operations on the cloud. Wipro has extensive experience of delivering cloud transformation projects across the globe.

Numerous legacy workloads, still hosted on premises, are mission-critical and hardly interruptible. Their migration to AWS must happen quasi-transparently for their users. This post details how the combination of AWS Outposts and CloudEndure can be used to solve for this issue. We demonstrate this by migrating a Solaris machine making use of the Charon SSP emulator by Stromasys, running on standard Amazon EC2 instances and using CloudEndure.

Verisk provides data analytic insights to customers in insurance, energy and specialized markets, and financial services. Learn how a joint team from AWS and Verisk Argus migrated petabytes of SQL Server data from on-premises to Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Glacier using AWS Snowball Edge and the Amazon EMR custom Spark ingestion framework. Through this migration framework, Verisk Argus is positioned to save millions of dollars by moving to AWS from their data center.

Data warehouse modernization has been a key aspect of many customers’ broader cloud transformation stories. Legacy data warehouse systems, however, present many challenges when dealing with today’s enterprise data needs. Learn how AWS and Infosys collaborated to transform a legacy Netezza platform on AWS for a large retail customer. With Infosys tools, processes, and industry knowledge, the collaboration between AWS and Infosys enables customers to transform their analytics platforms.

Migrating your Veritas protected data, tape backups, and infrastructure to AWS allows for increased flexibility in managing data through its lifecycle. Leveraging this strategy in conjunction with Veritas NetBackup‘s deduplication capabilities allows you to realize cost savings over managing your data on-premises. Veritas on AWS ensures your data is highly available and provides savings over storing data in your data center and/or managing the tape backup archival process.

Oil and gas operators face significant challenges accessing the subsurface data they have created and saved on tape media. Being able to perform tape migration at scale is highly complex and resource intensive, but it’s essential for oil and gas companies that want to understand their collection so they can unlock the true value of their data. Tape Ark is powered by AWS and uniquely capable of undertaking mass migrations at large scale.

Mainframe applications have been running the most mission-critical workloads in many large enterprises for decades. It’s common for them to store, compute, and transfer terabytes of data in day-to-day processing. Modernization projects can fail or become subtly complex in execution for a variety of reasons. Learn how tools and accelerators from Infosys are helping data migration from mainframe systems overcome many technical challenges.

Complementing AWS native services, APN Storage Partners are dedicated to helping customers move and store data of all types. APN Storage Partners have the expertise and experience to asses, deploy, upgrade, and manage storage-centric solutions across many use cases. As AWS continues to release new storage services and features, APN Partners are quick to follow suit with innovative solutions leveraging those new services and features, providing ever-more choice and flexibility to customers.

With the introduction of AWS Snowball Edge in 2016, AWS improved on the original Snowball appliance by adding more storage and adding compute, memory, and networking. The compute resources can be used to pre-process data before storing it on the appliance. Druva, an AWS Storage Competency Partner, now offers a complete solution to eliminate the seeding challenge for cloud-based backups using a Snowball Edge preconfigured with Druva data management technology.