VirtaMove Blogs

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...

You’ve surely seen the recent press about Cloud onboarding of legacy applications. Some claims have verged on hype. In fact, VMWare CEO Pat Gelsinger claimed in October 2017 that the software giant “is now resurgent thanks to a multi-cloud, alliance-building...

Some Practical Advice At VirtaMove, we’ve moved thousands of Windows Server applications from WS2003 to new OS versions and servers for hundreds of large customers like Glaxo, TD Bank, CIBC, Metlife, Clorox, IBM, and many others. Read on for some practical advice on...

Because we've done a lot of migrations We’ve successfully completed thousands of migrations for customers, saving these customers millions in remediation and re-platforming costs. We’ve seen a lot and have solved many problems. Whether you need to move applications to...

Most customers must address the issue of software licensing when they undertake Windows Server application modernization projects. I own the software - licensing is a non-issue, right? If customers are modernizing or migrating a custom-developed, in-house application...

For some time now we’ve been blogging about the advantages of automated Application Modernization using our unique container-based technology for Microsoft Server environments. However, customers have discovered many advantages of VirtaMove containers that extend...

A compendium of favorite excuses If you read the VirtaMove blogs over the last couple of years, you'll quickly realize that I’ve been harping on the need to upgrade Windows servers for a while. It’s now clear; both recent Malware attacks, WannaCry and Petya, take...

We are under cyber attack, and by “we,” I mean western democracies, the modern western style of business and capitalism, and our way of life. Sure, the hyperbole seems overdone, but WannaCry, Petya, and Russians hacking for fun and chaos are serious matters, even if...

Microsoft announced there would be no patches for a critical Windows Server 2003 IIS bug The second-best time to upgrade your Windows Server 2003 applications is Now, the best time was 20 months ago. For more than 18 months, VirtaMove has been warning customers about...

Change can be difficult. It requires focused effort and learning. For all primates, humans included, learning is paired with frustration. We’re all familiar with the ebb and flow of two steps forward and one step back. Doing nothing is less frustrating. We believe...