Category: Migration & Transfer Services

Background Q2 is an independent software vendor (ISV) and a leading provider of digital banking and fraud solutions for banks and credit unions. Q2 completed a successful migration of online banking application stacks for over 450 of their financial institution clients to Amazon Web Services (AWS). This strategic move represents one of the most significant […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Background Many customers are looking for cost-effective ways to archive their workloads. This workload archiving use case is driven by regulatory compliance across industries like healthcare, finance, and public sector. Also, organizations must archive data to meet industry compliance standards such as PCI-DSS, GxP, GDPR etc. Amazon S3 storage tiers, particularly Amazon S3 Glacier Deep […]

AWS offers several generative AI services that transform VMware workload migrations into a streamlined, automated process. By using agentic AI technology, organizations can now accelerate their cloud journey while maintaining operational excellence and reducing risk. AI powered migration tools can assess your on-premises servers in VMWare environments to map complex application dependencies, recommend optimized resource […]

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 […]

We are excited to announce the release of the assessment capability of AWS Transform. Migration assessments are an important early step in any organization’s migration journey as they help reduce cost and accelerate migration planning so you can realize migration objectives more quickly. A migration assessment empowers organizations to understand their on-premises infrastructure footprint by […]