Platform Migration

Many organizations are considering or acting on data center transformations. Transformation refers to a move from a particular architecture, hardware type or OS standard.  Blade servers are a good example of a transformation, but just about any large scale move from one state to another can be considered a transformation.

Any transformation requires careful analysis of the current state vs. the proposed state and the evaluation of many different constraints.  The end goal is a more efficiently allocated set of assets that meet the performance needs of the business.

CiRBA analysis can show you the best and lowest cost path to transformation. CiRBA rules enable you determine the best combination of new target hardware given the configuration and workload of existing applications.

CiRBA provides standard server model templates from major manufacturers and illustrates which combinations are optimal, given the types of applications in your current environment.  CiRBA also maps, through its Auto-Fit capabilities, the optimal combinations of applications onto the new hardware based on business constraints, configurations and workload patterns.

CiRBA can also help in the migration of applications across platforms, such as moving from distributed environments to mainframe application servers in order to take advantage of excess mainframe capacity.

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