Migration & Modernization
Category: Enterprise Strategy
Ask not what your CMDB can do for you—ask what you can do for your CMDB
The Missing Link in Cloud Modernization: A Trusted CMDB Walk into any IT organization and mention the words Configuration Management Database (CMDB), and you’ll usually get one of two reactions: either a hopeful nod about its promise, or a sigh about its failure. A CMDB maps IT assets—or configuration items (CIs)—such as servers, databases, applications, […]
Scaling Cloudera’s development environment: Leveraging Amazon EKS, Karpenter, Bottlerocket, and Cilium for hybrid cloud
This post is co-written with Shreelola Hegde,Sriharsha Devineni and Lee Watterworth from Cloudera. Cloudera is a global leader in enterprise data management, analytics, and AI. The Cloudera platform enables organizations to manage, process, and analyze massive datasets, helping businesses across industries like finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and telecommunications accelerate AI/ML adoption and unlock real-time insights. A […]
Anonymizing RVTools Data for AWS Migration Planning
Introduction In today’s cloud migration landscape, organizations would like to share their VMware environment data with AWS and partners while maintaining data confidentiality. A tool commonly used to export VMware configuration data is called RVTools. An RVTools export can contain sensitive information such as server names, IP addresses, and infrastructure details that organizations may want […]
Understanding Layer 2 Extensions: Comparing Three Prominent Solutions
Layer 2 (L2) network extensions play a critical role in hybrid cloud and data center migrations by providing seamless connectivity between on-premises and cloud environments. They allow virtual machines (VMs) to keep their IP and MAC addresses, ensuring application continuity during migrations or hybrid deployments. Three prominent solutions for L2 extensions are VMware HCX, Nutanix […]
Accelerating Your Modernization Journey with EBA: How AWS ModAx Transforms Legacy Applications
“Organizations that successfully modernize achieve 42% faster IT resource provisioning and an 86% increase in weekly feature deployments.” – AWS Business Value of Cloud Modernization Study, March 2025 Other benefits of modernization include: 130% more databases managed per administrator after adopting Managed Databases 17% faster time to insights after adopting Managed Analytics 83% increase in […]
Building a Unified Customer 360 Solution for SMB Growth on AWS
Introduction In today’s digital marketplace, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face unprecedented challenges in understanding and engaging their customers. While enterprise organizations deploy sophisticated customer data platforms (CDP), SMBs often struggle with fragmented customer views that limit their ability to deliver personalized experiences. This challenge is acute as customers expect consistent, personalized interactions across all […]
A Framework for Accelerated Modernization and Technical Debt Reduction
Introduction Today’s evolving technology ecosystem demands a new approach to technical debt reduction. While traditionally viewed as a software development concern or cloud migration challenge, technical debt represents the cumulative impact of every technology decision, infrastructure design, security practice, and postponed improvement across the entire IT portfolio. This blog post provides a pragmatic approach to […]
How NTT DATA Payments achieved 88% faster feature rollouts and 99.99% availability with AWS ModAx
Learn how NTT DATA Payment Services modernized their Loyalty Application using AWS ModAx, achieving 88% faster feature rollouts and 99.99% availability. Through AWS Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) methodology and modernization pathways, they transformed their monolithic architecture into microservices, enhanced scalability, and improved performance. Discover how they leveraged AWS services like Lambda, DynamoDB, and Step Functions to build a robust cloud-native solution that processes 5x more transactions and reduces service restoration time by 67%.
Navigating Conflicting Decisions in Your Cloud Migration and Modernization Journey
When one enterprise moved its aging systems to the cloud, the CTO faced a tough choice: rehost apps (lift and shift applications as-is) for speed or refactor (modify applications) for long‑term cloud benefits. Rehosting meant getting there fast but sacrificing efficiency, while refactoring promised scalability but delayed growth. This kind of trade‑off isn’t unique. From […]
Availity accelerates migrations to Amazon EKS with Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA)
Introduction As healthcare technology keeps evolving, leading organizations are embracing cloud-native solutions to enhance their operational capabilities. In this post, we’ll explore how Availity, America’s largest real-time healthcare information network, leveraged a three-day Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) workshop to accelerate the migration of 13 critical workloads to AWS. Four AWS services were the focus of this […]