Migration & Modernization

Introduction Mainframe customers face a myriad of options to modernize. Organizations now face urgent imperatives to modernize due to talent shortages, high and often rising costs, and restrictions on business agility imposed by the legacy environment. Customers also find themselves navigating a multitude of modernization patterns, tools, and strategies. The disposition strategy includes guiding principles […]

As more organizations take their first steps in the cloud migration journey, we’re seeing them facing a common on-premises challenge: applications that are tightly coupled with their datasets. This means that while their applications (running on physical or virtual machines) are ready to be migrated to the cloud using the rehost (“lift-and-shift”) strategy, there may […]

Introduction: The Missed Opportunity in the Cloud Consider companies that simply moved their existing business models to digital platforms without reimagining the underlying processes. Many became irrelevant while competitors transformed entire industries. Yet this mirrors what many organizations do today. They migrate legacy processes to the cloud without reimagining them. AWS defines seven migration strategies […]

This post is co-written with Evan Doyle and Blake Sherwood from Smarsh Customer Overview As a global leader in digital communications compliance and intelligence, Smarsh enables companies to transform oversight into foresight by surfacing business-critical signals across all digital communications. The company serves a global client base that spans 18 of the top 20 banks, […]

Discover how to revolutionize your VMware environment with AWS’s latest AI-powered migration tools and modernization solutions. This year’s re:Invent showcases new breakthroughs such as AWS Transform and Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS), real-world transformation strategies from industry leaders and guidance to get your digital transformation started. We’ve curated the top VMware-focused sessions that matter […]

NOTE: AWS Application Discovery Service is no longer open to new customers. Alternatively, use AWS Transform discovery tool or partner supported tool which provides similar capabilities. AWS Transform for VMware added new agentic AI capabilities for enterprise VMware migrations. Learn more about AWS Transform’s new experience.  Organizations migrating VMware workloads to AWS without specialized tools […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]