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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...

Everyone wants to get on the right side of the public Cloud wave. However, little has been written about why moving entire VMs to the Cloud may not be the smartest move for customers who pay Cloud hosting bills. The Cloud hosting company makes money – but does the...

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...