Many organisations are pushing to reassess and accelerate their IT modernisation strategies due to Broadcom’s recent announcement about licensing changes. Businesses that are primarily run in VMware cloud environments are the most impacted, especially those that are looking to use more modern data platforms, improve customer experience, and integrate advanced data insights – including the use of Generative AI.
STRATEGIES ON HOW TO MIGRATE FROM VMware cloud TO AWS
Running on-premises, especially within a VMware cloud environment, often means dealing with scalability, flexibility, and speed challenges that limit your ability to deploy modern data platforms and improve customer experience. These resulting limitations can impact your ability to maintain competitive advantage and meet changing customer expectations.
Transitioning to a more scalable and flexible cloud like AWS is crucial if you want to be more adaptable, agile, and able to accelerate your deployments. Here are some of the strategic pathways you should consider when migrating from VMware to AWS:
- Containerisation: Adopting containers offers a way to encapsulate and manage applications more efficiently and is well-supported on AWS cloud through services like Amazon ECS and EKS.
- Open-Source Solutions: Moving to open-source software where possible can reduce costs and increase adaptability.
- Managed Databases and Analytics: Leveraging AWS’s Managed Services such as Amazon RDS, Aurora or Amazon Redshift can simplify operations and enhance performance.
- Zero Trust Security Model: Implementing this security model ensures that trust is never assumed, regardless of the source.
- Generative AI: Integrating new AI capabilities can help automate and enhance decision-making processes.
Modern Ways of Working: AWS’s vast array of tools and services can make adopting agile and flexible working practices easier.
HOW TO ACCELERATE THE CLOUD MIGRATION FROM VMWARE TO AWS
More than just switching to another environment, migrating from VMware to AWS is also a timely opportunity to modernise and make your workflows more efficient. And the key to a successful and accelerated transition to AWS cloud are the following steps:
- Assessment and Planning: Conducting a thorough review of your current VMware cloud environment with a focus on how each component can be modernised rather than just lifted and shifted to the cloud is essential. At DNX Solutions, we can assess your environment and design a migration plan that considers your business objectives in as little as 1 week.
- Architectural Foundation: A well-architected AWS foundation ensures that your infrastructure follows best practices and compliance standards such as CIS, NIST, SOC2, and ISO. We have tested and established deployment patterns that we can use so you can have this foundation working, operating, and ready in just 1 week.
- Infrastructure Choices: This choice will dictate your infrastructure strategy. With tested patterns and methodology, we know where and how to determine the impact to the business here (ROI) so we can equip you with information and insights that can help you make the decision between moving to open-source solutions and containerising your applications.
- Simplify Your Data Platform: Structuring your data platform into three key areas – producers, platform, and consumers – will help clarify your platform strategy based on the needs and perspectives of the data consumers.
WHY SHOULD YOU CONSIDER EXPERIENCE-BASED ACCELERATORS (EBA)?
An Experience-Based Accelerator (EBA) approach can truly accelerate your cloud migration and modernisation initiatives with proven and tested deployment patterns. Using this methodology starts with a focused, bootcamp-style workshop that brings together key stakeholders from various departments to assess and find solutions for modernisation challenges. These sessions aim to produce actionable results that can speed up your migration or modernisation strategy effectively and successfully.
TURN TRANSITIONING FROM VMware to AWS INTO AN OPPORTUNITY
Transitioning from VMware cloud to AWS offers plenty of opportunities to improve your organisation’s infrastructure, security, and operational efficiency. At DNX, we have the expertise and proven methodologies to help you make this transition smoothly and quickly. If you’re ready to modernise and think that AWS might be the right solution, don’t hesitate to reach out. We’re here to help you understand your options and implement the best possible solutions for your business needs. Let’s work together to unlock the full potential of your IT environment.
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