Migration & Modernization

Category: Cloud Adoption

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, […]

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 […]

Building a Unified Customer 360 Solution for SMB Growth on AWS

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 […]

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 […]

Accelerating to the Cloud: How Stericycle rapidly migrated over 450 servers to Amazon EC2 and other AWS native services

Accelerating to the Cloud: How Stericycle rapidly migrated over 450 servers to Amazon EC2 and other AWS native services

This post is co-written with Matthew Kozlowski from Stericycle, Inc. Discover how a five Person infrastructure team migrated 450+ servers for 24/7 operations, achieving cost savings and efficiency gains. This case study reveals their successful strategy. Stericycle, Inc. has been protecting what matters since 1989. Headquartered in Bannockburn, Illinois, this leader in compliance-based solutions serves […]

Aligning Strategy and Execution for Successful Cloud Migration and Modernization Journeys

Aligning Strategy and Execution for Successful Cloud Migration and Modernization Journeys

Cloud transformation requires balancing centralized control with decentralized flexibility across both strategy and execution dimensions, with organizations typically needing to align their approach with specific business goals while remaining adaptable.

Upskilling and Training: Preparing Teams for Cloud Migration

Upskilling and Training: Preparing Teams for Cloud Migration

During a cloud transformation journey, one of the biggest challenges you may face is not the adoption of the technology itself, but rather the ability to create a culture that encourages continuous growth, improvement, and learning. This change in culture is especially important in cloud environments. It creates benefits such as finding faster value in […]

Evolving your Cloud capabilities to enable your important business objectives

Evolving your Cloud capabilities to enable your important business objectives

In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, cloud has become a cornerstone for business seeking to drive innovation, boost efficiency, and attain strategic goals. As organizations strive to leverage cloud to enable business objectives, continuously evolving cloud capabilities becomes crucial. In this blog we will explain how Amazon Web Services (AWS) empowers your organization to develop a […]