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State Matters
Why a Stateful Re-Install of Legacy Applications on Modern Servers is Always the Best, First Step Install scripts are missing, developers are gone, application owners have left, and new owners don’t understand their applications. If you don’t discover and inherit the...
Move Forward!
How to Take Back Control of Legacy Windows Server Applications Not sure why control was lost? It could be because: operational outsourcing became a trend in the Great Recession of 2008; turnover of IT staff is high, and many original developers and owners of legacy...
Making Legacy Legendary
Automating the Stateful Re-Install of Legacy Windows Server Apps on a Modern Server The advantages of a stateful re-install How do you move forward with re-installing legacy server applications on new servers? Quite likely, install scripts are missing, developers...
If Operational Agility is Critical for Business Success…
Why does it feel like Vogons are running outsourced IT operations? Science Fiction has been at the forefront in the development of new technology. The genre has directly influenced technology via movies such as “The Minority Report” and “iRobot” and the works of...
Containers Are Not a Windows Server Migration Panacea
Why Containerization Alone Won’t Solve the Problem of Running Legacy Applications on Modern Servers When it comes to moving workloads to a cloud-hosted VM or to new datacenter servers, companies are being sold that containerization is a panacea. It isn’t. At best, the...
The Lingering Impact of the 2008 Recession on Tech Modernization – a Way Forward
For the last several months, I’ve been trying to understand why so many large organizations continue to run on technology stacks that are more than a decade old. Everyone will know by now that Extended Support for WS2008 will come to an end on Jan. 14, 2020. Common...
When it comes to server modernization, doing nothing isn’t a zero cost strategy
For more than 36 months, VirtaMove has been urging customers to perform server modernization - to move legacy server applications to modern server platforms running WS2012 and WS2016. Why? Because running applications on operating systems that are out of date or have...
Why Migrating Windows Server Applications By Hand is Hard!
Let’s begin at the beginning: at the start of the life cycle of a server application. Applications begin life for a specific version of the operating system; for example, WS2003 or WS2008. They’re installed on a server using an install script, which distributes the...
Application Discovery: Why It Matters
Complying with new data protection regulations, such as GDPR rules, requires application visibility across your datacenter. Global corporate security breaches have also created a need to get continuous visibility of what apps you’re running. If you consider that world...
Why You Need an Automated Fresh Install of Legacy Server Apps on a Modern Server
You probably don’t believe the title of this blog, and you’re not alone if you don’t. Most people don’t believe that a fresh install of legacy apps on new servers is even possible. More likely than not, install scripts are missing, developers are gone, application...