Migration & Modernization

Michael Spence

Author: Michael Spence

Michael is a Senior Solutions Architect based out of Tennessee. He has extensive experience in enterprise cloud migrations. He is currently working with AWS partners in the WWPS focused on migrations. He has a Master of Science degree in Software Engineering from East Tenn. State University and believes in quote: “The most damaging phrase in the language is ‘We’ve always done it this way’.” - Adm. Grace Hopper

OpenVMS x86 Database Modernization with Mimer SQL and Amazon EC2

In this blog post, I will show how to migrate an Oracle Rdb database to Mimer SQL running on OpenVMS x86 in Amazon Web Services (AWS). At the time of this post, Oracle Rdb is only available on VAX, Alpha, and IA-64 platforms. Customers with Oracle Rdb workloads wishing to move to OpenVMS x86 need […]

Deploying OpenVMS x86 on Amazon EC2

Deploying OpenVMS x86 on Amazon EC2

In this blog post, I will show you how to configure and run the x86 virtualized version of the OpenVMS operating system provided by VMS Software, Inc. in a cluster configuration on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) bare metal instance. I will highlight integration points between OpenVMS guests running on the Amazon EC2 […]