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Whether you call it Lift and Shift, Rehost, Re-platform, Transform, or Refactor it essentially means you are looking to spend money now to save money later. The business events that drive the change may vary, but the needs are the same, to move off what you have and into something you want, or believe you need, to satisfy your business demands. The “want” and “need” essentially boils down to saving or making more money.I bet you feel that “the cloud” will address the money question because of the wonderful benefit of, <insert cloud marketing slogan here>. Hyperscale providers speak of elasticity, scalability, availability, reliability, optimized costs, improved performance, and innovative solutions. They will speak of the importance of Kubernetes, Containers, micro-services, statelessness, AI, ML, and highly secured options; however, hyperscale providers rarely, if ever, talk about something that is very important. Long-term strategies of portability and interoperability.This pap

 Ever had one of those moments when you realized you should have paid the fee for the extended coverage? You know, for a small fee you can get a 3-year warrantee to fix or replace your purchase. You think, “I haven’t needed it before. It is just a waste of my money. I can get a Carmel swirly mocha-frap, half skim, decaf, boba and kale smoothie instead.” Well, skipping the fee maybe fine for your overnight web order of a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth mini Siri enabled key fob, but what about the “simple” IT project to move the 10 servers to the new location, or the transfer of 40 terabytes (TB) of data from the old storage array to the new one, or even the simple effort to move the development servers to “the cloud”… come-on… its development, how much risk can that be…Many providers preach the “cost of free” for the first 30 days, but you may also want to look at the cost of risk. Risk is a fickle thing… it is obvious that too few resources can incur risk by not having enough staff to complete th

When businesses hear that “end of support” is approaching for one of their core business systems, it often evokes fear – and a frantic scramble in the IT department to implement a quick fix. However, it doesn’t need to be this way!  Windows SQL Server 2016 will reach the end of its extended support on July 14, 2026. While this date may seem like it is far away, now is the perfect time to assess your environments, plan your budget and allocate the resources needed to modernize these servers.    Why modernize or migrate your SQL Server  Modernizing and migrating SQL Server from an old, unsupported version is just one of the many reasons why a company might want to migrate its data. Many businesses choose to migrate their data with company mergers, hardware upgrades or moves to the cloud.  But unfortunately, data migrations often entail downtime, data loss, operational disruption or compatibility issues. OpenText Migrate alleviates these concerns and simplifies the migration process. We p