VirtaMove Blogs

At VirtaMove, we believe that moving legacy applications to a modern operating system extends their useful life. We’re focused on how to help customers extend the life of their legacy applications. We’ve successfully moved thousands of WS2003, and WS2008 applications...

How to Reduce the Problem of Noisy Neighbor VMs in the Datacenter This blog addresses how to reduce the problem of noisy neighbor VMs in your datacenter. What do we mean by a noisy Virtual Machine (VM) in the datacenter? How does the operational performance of a noisy...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a set of new regulatory rules that have been passed and adopted by the European Parliament. These rules come into effect on May 25, 2018. The objective of these regulations is to strengthen and standardize the...

I decided to resurrect a post about cyber warfare. This is in light of recent news about Russian hacking of critical infrastructure systems for nuclear power plants, power grids, water facilities, and waste systems, Cyber warfare is a serious issue and security...

Banks and other financial institutions have been preoccupied with the idea of Banking in the Future and the Modern Branch. Exactly what a Bank branch will look like in the future is unclear, because so much is being is done by customers with online banking. Maybe...

Whether you are building a physical datacenter or a virtual one based on hybrid or public cloud technology, you’ll have many issues to consider. In a physical build, you’ll need to think about security, physical access, power supply, resiliency, backup, and many other...

At VirtaMove, we’ve been mulling for some time about how to help customers with application remediation. Customers would tell us that consultants were always pushing them in the direction of application redevelopment and remediation. Over the last couple of years,...

Moving to your new virtual datacenter any time soon? Moving a datacenter is a complex task that takes months of preparation and planning. Modern businesses require that all essential systems be available all the time, even during a datacenter move. Whether you’re...

The Next Step in Moving Legacy Workloads to the Cloud in Scale In previous blogs, we covered many of the problems inherent in using Physical to Virtual (P2V) and V2V tools to move legacy servers to new OS instances. A short list of P2V problems include: Excessive...

When it comes to moving workloads to a cloud-hosted VM or to new datacenter servers, companies often believe that Physical to Virtual (P2V) replication tools are a panacea. These tools clone exact copies of servers running older OS instances to virtual machines or to...