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Accelerate Cloud Transformation using Hyper-Automation and Zero-Code Migrations with Concierto Migrate and AWS
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By Hamdy Eed, Sr. Partner Solution Architect – AWS
Ciji Joseph, Partner Head – Concierto
Harsha Vardhan, Product Marketing – Concierto
Venkat Potturu, Presales Head – Concierto
In this blog post, you will discover how Concierto MIGRATE address the challenges faced by organizations in migrating legacy workloads to the cloud. You’ll learn in detail about Concierto, a comprehensive migration solution that not only facilitates seamless and accelerated migration of workloads to cloud in bulk, but also simplifies process by eliminating the barriers that often stall cloud transitions.
In the current era of accelerated digital transformation, businesses of all sizes understand that delaying cloud adoption can lead to incurring significant costs through missed opportunities, reduced efficiency, and diminished competitive advantage. This presents a critical challenge for organizations still reliant on legacy systems on when and how to adopt cloud services in order to enhance customer experiences and accelerate digital transformation.
You will learn how Trianz, in collaboration with AWS, accelerates cloud migration journey of organizations with its hyper-automation and zero-code approach. You will also see how a global healthcare technology company leveraged Concierto to migrate 7,000 servers in just 6 months.
Trianz is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner and a technology solutions and services company that accelerates digital transformations for businesses in the area of Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Data & AI, Digital Experiences, Cyber-Security, and IT Operations.
Challenges
However, transitioning to the cloud is rarely straightforward. Complexities abound, and many teams find themselves overwhelmed by the intricacies of migration, leading to hesitation. Among the most common challenges are:
- Complex application dependencies
- Concerns around data security and compliance
- Challenges in mapping and sequencing migration steps
- Risks of downtime and potential business disruption during the transition
Concierto MIGRATE for Accelerated Cloud Adoption
Concierto MIGRATE is a B2B SaaS platform that accelerates and simplifies your enterprise cloud adoption journey. It enables you to assess your cloud infrastructure, perform agentless workload discovery, and execute speedy bulk migrations to AWS cloud. The solution is optimized for the migration of VMWare, Microsoft, and custom applications, as well as large-scale commercial off–the-shelf (COTS) platforms like Oracle and SAP.
Solution Overview
Concierto MIGRATE enables end-to-end migrations from on-premise & other clouds to AWS by discovering, assessing and migrating application servers, databases, storage and performing post-migration configuration utilizing the following functionality.
- Infrastructure and Data Center Discovery – The platform uses an agentless, multi-level discovery process to analyse and catalog your servers, databases, applications, networking components, and data across on-premises datacentres and private clouds. It can integrate with your Configuration Management Database (CMDB) to import existing infrastructure details, which are then enhanced with findings from the discovery process.
- Automated IT Real Estate Assessment – This assessment provides a clear view of your IT landscape, covering essential details like asset locations, application dependencies, and infrastructure relationships. You’ll also receive a summary of licensing, financials, and a structured plan to guide your migration steps, helping ensure that all aspects of your environment are ready for a seamless transition.
- Automated Move Group Creation through Application Dependency Analysis – The solution analyzes application dependencies to identify and group interconnected applications and services for migration. By organizing related components into move groups, it minimizes the risk of disrupting critical connections during the migration process.
- Automated Migration Catalogs – Concierto MIGRATE provides catalogs with standardized procedures and configurations for migrating various types of applications and infrastructure components to the cloud. These catalogs include, application architectures, and migration strategies, allowing you to efficiently plan and execute your cloud migration efforts.
- Zero-Touch Migration Execution – The platform executes an automated migration of IT infrastructure, applications, and data to cloud environments with no human intervention. Workload transitions are streamlined, with automated pre- and post-migration activities, and the entire process is pre-scheduled for continuous monitoring. Real-time adjustments are made as needed to ensure a smooth migration with minimal disruption.
- Continuous Data Replication – Concierto’ s Delta-Sync Process continuously synchronizes data between source and target environments, ensuring that business operations remain unaffected during migration. Incremental updates are used to replicate only modified data, allowing for seamless transitions without interrupting ongoing operations.
- Workflow-Driven Post-Migration and New Build Automation – Concierto automates not only the migration process but also post-migration tasks, using integrated workflows within a single platform. These workflows manage both existing environments and the setup of new environments. The platform uses wizard-driven automation for post-migration activities and server provisioning, enabling enterprises to efficiently manage migrated servers or rapidly build new infrastructure on a unified interface.
- Intelligent Portal for Migration Analytics – Concierto offers comprehensive visibility and traceability for discoveries, assessments, and migration plans. The platform’s built-in workflows provide real-time notifications to relevant teams about migration progress or deviations, ensuring a streamlined and efficient process. This consolidated platform enhances operational efficiency by offering full transparency across the entire migration lifecycle.
Concierto ensures seamless migration to AWS as it leverages a zero-code platform with ready-to-use migration catalogs for application/datacenter discovery, assessment, and migration. Features like one-click deployment, IPSEC tunnels for secure communication, and AWS services, including HAQM Relational Database Service, HAQM Elastic File System and HAQM Simple Storage Services (S3), ensure near-zero downtime, ~50% faster migration, and optimized costs where you pay only for the resources migrated.
Figure 1: Concierto High Level Architecture
A Global Healthcare Technology Company Leveraged Concierto and AWS to Migrate 7,000 Servers in 6 Months
A Fortune 100 organization was undergoing a major business transformation. As part of a corporate split and divestiture, it needed to create its own distinct IT infrastructure. With over a billion customers relying on its services every year, it was crucial to get this transition right and do it quickly. Its goal was to migrate more than 7,000 servers and 600 applications to cloud within 6 months. In addition, the business mandated setting up a state-of-the-art model for managing its cloud and IT operations going forward.
Given this challenging task, the company turned to Trianz to leverage its hyper-automated and no-code approach to expedite and streamline its infrastructure assessment and migration strategy. Concierto performed real-time discovery of source servers through agentless discovery, created dependency mapping, conducted application assessments, and enabled an automated and rapid migration process. With Concierto’ s automation, the whole migration process was carefully planned, executed, and validated, ensuring nothing is overlooked. Concierto MIGRATE solution provided the customer built-in dashboards with real-time insights throughout the different phases of the migration process.
Figure 2: Concierto Migration Portal
By using Concierto, the company was able to realize 50% cost saving on migrations. Even with a daunting workload of 7,000 virtual machines and over 600 applications, the migration was completed in just 6 months, a considerably short timeframe. Because the rapid migration got its systems online more quickly, the company was able to regain its competitive advantage. Automation with Concierto also boosted accuracy, consistency, and compliance with security requirements, reducing risks and helping this giant pull off a complex IT transformation smoothly and efficiently.
Conclusion
Cloud transformation, while critical for modern enterprises, has often been seen as complex and fraught with risks. Concierto MIGRATE simplifies and automates this process, turning cloud migration into a structured and predictable operation through hyper-automation and zero-code execution
Aligned with AWS best practices, the platform minimizes both the technical complexities and financial hurdles associated with migration. By accelerating timelines, lowering costs, and mitigating risks, Concierto MIGRATE enables organizations to confidently move their infrastructure to the cloud, unlocking the full potential of AWS’s scalability, agility, and innovation.
Next Steps
Learn how Concierto MIGRATE can accelerate your cloud migration, request a product demo here or subscribe to the offering through the AWS Marketplace. Additionally, explore the full suite of Concierto cloud management solutions, including Concierto MANAGE for hybrid cloud operations and Concierto MAXIMIZE for cloud optimization, observability and cost management.
Concierto – AWS Partner Spotlight
Concierto is an AWS Advanced Technology Partner and AWS Competency Partner that provides a comprehensive end-to-end cloud migration solution, designed to accelerate our customers’ cloud journey by leveraging the ease of adoption and scalability of AWS cloud services.