Who should consider IBM Consulting VMware Migration to AWS?

1. Clients whose VMware on-premises perpetual licensing renewal is due soon.
2. Clients who are hosting their workloads in VMware in any cloud and want to exit before the lock-in price expires.
3. Clients who have already extended their on-premises perpetual licenses to subscriptions but want to exit out of VMware to avoid future cost increase, lack of innovation and vendor lock-in.

How IBM Consulting Can help? Create Approach & Roadmap: We meet the clients where they are and provide a detailed approach and roadmap based on the time left for license renewal or expiry of existing license terms with VMware.

Our Gen AI powered IBM Consulting Delivery Curator runs on AWS Bedrock helps gain insights into the application landscape from the existing knowledge base with minimal human touchpoint. It identifies the dependencies, risks, barriers, and blockers proactively much in advance and provides options to mitigate them.

As part of the assessment, we analyse the current VMware Estate & Contract, gather nature of workloads, regulatory & compliance requirements and assess current technology landscape & Currency.

At the end of the assessment phase, we provide inventory Report of application, dependencies, dispositions & Migration Approach, migration Roadmap and business Case (includes the ROM Cost for migration)

Migrate VMware Workloads to AWS: IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerator tool sets combined with AWS Migration Services provides a fully automated and seamless migration experience with minimal down time.

The tools generate the non-functional requirements, target reference architecture and migration architecture from the ingested documentation.

Our Gen AI powered Digital BOTs help to track the status of the workloads that are being migrated at any time during the course of the engagement. They identify the

As part of the migration, we do the detail design of applications, Migrate the application to AWS Services on Cloud, perform testing and hand the application to the manage team for day 2 support.

*Conditions apply.