Northbay

Many companies have aspirations of getting out of the data center business by moving their on-premises applications and infrastructure to the AWS Cloud, but the IT teams who are responsible for making the AWS Cloud migration happen can easily become overwhelmed by the potential risks — or even paralyzed by fear of the process not going according to plan. However, what many IT professionals don't realize is that if they have VMware virtualization deployments — which 100% of the Fortune 500 and 83% of companies worldwide do — migrating those VMware deployments to the AWS Cloud is actually one of the most straightforward and low-risk migrations possible. That said, VMware suggests that their customers — especially those who are highly risk averse — follow a somewhat painstaking approach to virtualization modernization and AWS Cloud migration. This isn’t all that surprising, given that VMware’s own transition to the cloud has been a methodical, years-long journey comprised of incremental changes.