When embarking on a cloud migration project, it's important to choose a platform that meets your specific needs and requirements. With the market offering a variety of migration tools, RiverMeadow's Workload Mobility Platform stands out as a superior solution when compared to Migrate to Virtual Machines (M2VM), formally Migrate for Compute Engine (M4CE). With its flexibility, ease of use, and support for diverse use cases, RiverMeadow is a go-to choice for businesses looking to migrate and modernize their virtual machines efficiently and effectively. RiverMeadow's unique, flexible Workload Pl ..read more

CentOS has been a popular Linux distribution in the industry for its stability and reliability. However, CentOS 6.x reached end of life in November 2020, and CentOS 7.x is fast approaching end of life in June 2024. Many organizations must migrate to other options that provide long-term support and updated security features. This blog will discuss why you should consider migrating from CentOS 6.x and 7.x to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Rocky Linux, or AlmaLinux using RiverMeadow InfraMod.   CentOS 6.x reached its end of life in November 2020, meaning there will be ..read more

Workload mobility is a critical capability for businesses looking to migrate to the cloud. By providing customers with the ability to move their workloads to and from any cloud platform, RiverMeadow's Workload Mobility Platform helps to prevent vendor lock-in and provides customers with greater flexibility and choice. Our platform enables customers to migrate workloads from on-prem to on-prem, on-prem to cloud, cloud to cloud, or cloud to on-prem, based on need and to avoid vendor lock-in, and provides wider use case support than any migration product in the industry, enabling customers to add ..read more

When it comes to large-scale Cloud Migration projects, use case addressability becomes paramount. The diversity of use cases, the variety of sources, and source environments often become blockers for FREE tools like HCX.   RiverMeadow's unique, flexible Workload Platform is proven in the market across many Fortune 100 customers over countless industry verticals. Having completed many large-scale cloud migration projects over the past 12 months, we wanted to share with you many of the limitations we have found associated with HCX. Check out the following advantages of RiverMeadow's C ..read more

Introducing New Capability from RiverMeadow Software - the ultimate Cloud Mobility Platform and Infrastructure Modernization (InfaMod) Solution. Our new release includes OS Modernization target support for Windows Server 2022, Windows 11, and Red Hat 8.7. With our advanced VMware performance gathering and right-sizing recommendations, you can optimize your virtual environment for maximum efficiency. Plus, our support for PowerShell for automation makes it easy to automate repetitive tasks and streamline your workflow. RiverMeadow's Total Workload Mobility enables you to easily move your workl ..read more

RiverMeadow is currently working with a Fortune 50 Financial Services Company to help them retire technical debt and save them from the potential burden of Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 Extended Security Update (ESU) payments, saving them $10's of millions of dollars in Microsoft ESU fees. 2023 will see Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 reach End of Support (EoS), and these products will no longer receive security updates, non-security updates, bug fixes, or technical support from Microsoft. This puts your business, data, applications, and infrastructure at risk from security vulnerabilities and r ..read more

When you’re planning a move to public cloud, you’ll need to consider whether to migrate your workloads by VM (virtual machine) or by OS (Operating System) - or both. In this blog we take a look at why choosing a Cloud Migration Tool that allows you to decide on how to migrate to the cloud is so important. Meeting Your Specific Use Case Requirements It’s all about the use case or, in other words, the particular requirement that your business has in order to accomplish a successful migration.  For the sake of speed and simplicity, you may want to carry out migration by VM. This is ideal fo ..read more

Do you need to Exit a Managed Services Provider, and they're not 'Playing Ball' and not giving you the required access permissions? We call this a 'Hostile Migration' situation!   The Use Case: A Global Telco Company needed to migrate around 1000 physical and virtual machines to the Cloud in less than 90 days. A substantial proportion of the workloads to be relocated were hosted with a 3rd party Managed Services Provider that would not be used in the future by the Global Telco, a “hostile Managed Service Provider.” The Solution: Discovery Services: RiverMeadow, performed a thorough ..read more

VMware HCX™ (Hybrid Cloud Extension) is a solution for migrating virtual machines from VMware on-premises to VMware on Cloud. Whilst the benefits of running your workloads natively in the cloud are well documented, getting there can be complex and costly. As HCX specialists, RiverMeadow’s Cloud Migration Delivery Team has carried out dozens of successful migration projects for customers who are moving their VMware on-prem workloads to VMware infrastructure on any Hyperscaler. However, there have been several scenarios where HCX has not been suitable for a particular series of use cases. Lever ..read more

Before you sign up for ‘free’ migration tools from your Cloud Service Provider, consider carefully if they’ll offer you the flexibility and use case addressability you’re going to need. Having the flexibility to choose which migration approach is best for your specific needs cannot be underestimated. Competing so-called ‘free’ migration tools offered by hyperscale Cloud Service Providers do only one thing, one way, rather like a one-trick pony if you will. As a result, many companies hit a roadblock in their migration projects when it becomes increasingly clear that their specific requirement ..read more