Category: Migration & Transfer Services

Many organizations want to migrate from legacy BI tools to Amazon QuickSight, but manual migration cab be costly. Wavicle’s QuickSight Migration Solution (QMS) automates and optimizes this process, analyzing existing dashboards, identifying duplication, automating conversion, and facilitating a seamless rollout. This reduces migration effort, costs, and risks so organizations can rapidly realize QuickSight’s self-service analytics, flexibility, and cost savings.

Traditional mainframe applications create data integration challenges when modernizing on the cloud. VirtualZ’s Lozen allows secure, real-time access to mainframe data from AWS without replication. This simplifies application migration while retaining the mainframe system of record. Lozen utilizes efficient data transformation and optimized protocols to improve performance, and is zIIP-eligible for additional cost savings.

Many organizations are migrating mainframe workloads to AWS to modernize applications and infrastructure. Mainframe batch jobs are business-critical, so AWS integrated its Mainframe Modernization service with BMC’s Control-M workflow orchestrator. Control-M automates and monitors batch jobs on-premises and in the cloud. This integration provides end-to-end visibility, prevents service degradation, and avoids missed SLAs.

As organizations modernize mainframe applications, integrating mainframe batch workloads into cloud environments is a key challenge. Stonebranch’s scheduler integrates with AWS Mainframe Modernization service to enable centralized, automated scheduling and monitoring of mainframe batch jobs on the cloud. This improves efficiency, optimizes costs, and accelerates mainframe modernization by enabling seamless workload orchestration across legacy and modern platforms.

Vcinity’s data movement and remote data access solutions enable enterprises to build continuous data pipelines that provide secure, performant access to distributed data. By extending high-speed networking protocols over wide area networks, Vcinity allows AWS services to operate on remote data as if it were local, reducing data transfer costs and latency. This enables real-time analytics, AI/ML model training, cloud migrations, and other use cases.

Crayon’s customizable landing zone accelerator automates setup of a secure, scalable AWS environment aligned to best practices. It establishes foundational accounts, applies baseline security controls, and integrates AWS services across the organization to drive cloud adoption for companies migrating to AWS while also improving governance for existing customers. Crayon guides customers through the landing zone build and subsequent workload migration, providing automation kits to speed deployments.

Many AWS customers using SQL Server for analytics seek to migrate to Amazon QuickSight, a cloud-native business intelligence that provides interactive dashboards and charts unmatched by SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). IPsense developed a tool to accelerate migrating SSRS reports to QuickSight which automates converting SSRS queries and stored procedures into AWS Glue jobs that populate a cloud data lake.

A global technology firm migrated its massive on-premises Apache Hadoop data center to Amazon EMR and achieved major cost savings and capabilities. By deploying Pepperdata’s optimization software, which works in real-time to maximize resource utilization, the firm achieved nearly 25% additional cost reduction on top of its Amazon EMR savings, without any code changes or manual tuning. Learn how Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer rapidly identifies existing nodes where more jobs could be completed.

For SAP customers aiming to cut costs, a popular option is replatforming to the AWS cloud, which can be done seamlessly using various migration tools and methodologies. Customers can migrate SAP HANA from on-premises environments to AWS using the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. This solution offers a fast, user-friendly migration with expert guidance along the way. Red Hat provides added security, reporting, analytics, and technical support to help organizations scale their automation programs.

Many enterprises have significant portions of their workloads running either as batch or online but still operating on mainframe technologies. Delve into the complex landscape of modernizing mainframe applications and migrating them to AWS, exploring the significant challenges that organizations face and how HCLTech’s Advantage Modernize Framework overcomes these challenges and paves the way for a successful and efficient transition to AWS.