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Cloud – what to expect in 2020
Happy New Year! This will be the year when the majority of you will take the plunge into migrating your on-premise workloads to the cloud. The advice on New Years is - don't drink and drive - the equivalent for cloud migrations is - don't migrate without proactive...
Announcing support for VMware on IBM Cloud Bare Metal
We are pleased announce that the Akasia Infrastructure Modeler now supports modeling VMware on IBM Cloud Bare Metal. Bare metal systems in the cloud are a popular destination for migrating on-premise VMware environments. After having invested deeply in their VMware...
Akasia releases support for VMware on Azure
AIM provides customers with granular planning, cost assessments and bill of materials for transitions from on-premise environments to VMware on Azure June 13th, 2019, Santa Clara — Akasia, Inc., today announced the availability of Akasia Infrastructure Modeler (AIM)...
Cost Implications of various cloud compute options
Cloud platforms offer several compute options that have significant cost implications. As you are planning for the cloud make sure to examine the characteristics of your workload and then select the most suited compute option. In this blog we compare some cloud...
The Deep Discovery Conundrum in Cloud Planning
Is it essential for a cloud planning tool to provide deep discovery? In our experience in the last 12 months modeling over 750K machines for the cloud we've seen two diametrically opposing requirements for deep discovery. Read more about these opposing requirements...
AWS vs. Azure – A Features Comparison
AWS vs. Azure – A Features Comparison In August we worked with a client who was evaluating AWS and Azure as potential destinations for their on-premise applications. We created a chart comparing the high level features of AWS and Azure. The chart showed interesting...
Akasia Announces support for planning for migrations to VMware Cloud on AWS in the Akasia Infrastructure Modeler (AIM)
AIM provides customers with granular planning, cost assessments and bill of materials for transitions from on-premise environments to VMware Cloud on AWS August 28th, 2017, Santa Clara — Akasia, Inc., today announced the availability of Akasia Infrastructure Modeler...
Cloud Cost Planning in a Hybrid Environment
Basefarm is a European Managed Service Provider who specializes in managing applications that run in a hybrid (on-premise and in the cloud) environment. They contacted us because several of their clients ask about the cost differentials as they migrate applications to...
How the new Azure Buying Options Impact You
As of February 1st 2017, Microsoft has introduced some changes in how customer can buy Azure pay-as-you-go. With these changes Microsoft intends to simplify and add value to end-customers as well as its vast community of channel partners. While there has been mixed...
The Anatomy of Cloud Costs Planning
Recently we had the pleasure of working with Polleo Systems to help them with their cost planning for the cloud. They have several hundred VMs and they were evaluating which of them to migrate to the cloud and why. Some word of mouth recommendations led them to ask us...