VirtaMove Blogs

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...

From time to time we’re asked whether we can help move legacy workloads to the cloud. Most customers want to move older applications to AWS, Azure, or Google’s GCP platform. Of course, the answer is Yes. Cloud onboarding of legacy Windows Server applications is a...

Stop Talking About Threat Detection and Start Eliminating Known Security Exposures Update March 2021 This blog was published in 2018, well before the global COVID-19 pandemic. With the pandemic, came a sharp rise in cyberattacks across all fields and organizations. To...

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 Windows 2000, WS2003, and WS2008...

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...