Category: Enterprise Strategy

A Gartner, Inc. survey revealed that 87% of business leaders expect to increase their organization’s investment in sustainability over the next two years. This blog aims to equip Information Technology (IT) teams with the necessary resources to start the conversation with business leaders and prepare a compelling business case that highlights the opportunity for carbon […]

Application modernization is an important and growing migration strategy for many businesses. Most applications begin as a monolith, focusing on a specific business use case. As businesses grow, so does the complexity and number of business use-cases that their monoliths must support. This causes monolith application components to be tightly coupled and less cohesive, making […]

Introduction As organizations move towards modernizing their workloads in the cloud, there are key capabilities that need to be in place to enable the success of the modernization journey. The capabilities include organization structure, modernization strategy, automation, team readiness, and stakeholder sponsorship. Out of these, automation plays an outsized role in realizing the benefits of […]

Despite the many benefits of moving to the Cloud, large enterprises frequently struggle to deliver migrations (and the related business transformation) in the planned timeframe. Why?  What are the key factors that ensure a successful migration that becomes an oft-quoted industry benchmark for a Cloud driven transformation; rather than a moribund initiative where a number […]

Stalled cloud migrations can undermine cloud adoption’s business value. It is therefore important to watch out for early warning signs and take timely corrective action. This blog post looks at five big pitfalls every cloud migration leader should be aware of. The good news is you can spot these issues early and mitigate them to […]

Introduction Part one of this series described the methodology used to calculate the TCO for containerization and we covered the first scenario of estimating TCO with server inventory information. In the second part we focus on second scenario where we will estimate TCO with application level information. Scenario 2: Estimating TCO with only application level […]

Introduction When you migrate your on-premises applications to the cloud, you can use a cloud migration strategy. AWS supports the seven most common migration strategies, “The 7 Rs”. Which approach makes sense for a specific workload is situational and depends on that organization’s business drivers and strategy. Understanding the total cost of ownership (TCO) is […]

Introduction Migrating to cloud is the first step in modernizing the IT landscape. By completing the migration, the enterprise is laying the foundation for a more modern, agile, and secure IT environment. However, in many organizations, the initial momentum built during migration often slows down and leads to a stall. The true potential of cloud […]

Introduction In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are constantly seeking new ways to enhance their operations, optimize costs, and leverage the benefits of cloud computing. As organizations evolve, they often find themselves needing to migrate their virtual machines (VMs) from one cloud provider to another, such as moving from Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) […]

AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is AWS’s recommended service for migrations to AWS. It simplifies and expedites migrating your source servers from physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure platforms to run natively on AWS. Over the last year, we’ve shared with you several major updates to the MGN service, focusing on offering customers more ways […]