Migration & Modernization

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 […]

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 […]

“Organizations that successfully modernize achieve 42% faster IT resource provisioning and an 86% increase in weekly feature deployments.” – AWS Business Value of Cloud Modernization Study, March 2025 Other benefits of modernization include: 130% more databases managed per administrator after adopting Managed Databases 17% faster time to insights after adopting Managed Analytics 83% increase in […]

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 […]

This post is co-written with Vihang Shah from Moody’s. Introduction Managing change requests across hundreds of applications while maintaining operational excellence presents a complex challenge for growing SaaS companies. Manual processes that once worked for dozens of deployments become unsustainable bottlenecks when scaled to enterprise levels. A solution to these bottlenecks is serverless automation that […]

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 […]

This post is co-written with James Chao, Distinguished Software Engineer from Turnitin. In this post we discuss how Turnitin migrated from a monolithic frontend to a micro-frontend architecture built on AWS to support their growth, improved user experience and faster feature releases. We’ll discuss their previous monolithic frontend architecture, the key drivers for an architectural […]