Migration & Modernization

Category: Migration

Configuration Management Database Cloud

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

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 […]

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 […]

Making Decisions

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 […]

Seamlessly navigate your data center migration by understanding the end-to-end journey

Introduction Data centre migrations are transformational undertakings that touch every aspect of an organization’s IT infrastructure, operations, and potentially its entire business model. Unlike traditional technology upgrades, cloud migrations represent fundamental shifts in how organizations approach computing, storage, security, and technological innovation. Maximizing cloud value while minimizing disruption requires a holistic approach to be taken […]

Automate large-scale migration to Amazon EC2 using AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator

Automate large-scale migration to Amazon EC2 using AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator

Introduction Migrating VMware virtual machines to Amazon EC2 at scale presents significant challenges for organizations seeking to accelerate cloud benefits. AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator simplifies this process by providing a streamlined, automated approach to these complex migrations. In this blog post, we’ll guide you through a step-by-step process showing how Migration Hub Orchestrator effectively manages […]

Loyalty New Zealand migrates from VMware Cloud on AWS to AWS native and saves 30% in costs

This post has received input from Jeremy Anderson, Imran Ahmed, Matthew Jones, Ian Korolkovas and ER Hapal from Loyalty New Zealand. In this blog post, we will show you how Loyalty New Zealand executed a move from VMware Cloud on AWS to AWS native services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes […]