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You’ve invested significantly in securing, monitoring, and maintaining your data center infrastructure. Now, as you transition to AWS, you face these challenges again. Sierra-Cedar has extensive experience in this area, having successfully managed these tasks for our own systems and those of our clients. We can help you make your AWS environment secure, compliant, cost-effective, and highly available, just as you’ve done in your data center.

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Assessment Services

Our VMware to AWS Migration Assessment is a three-step collaborative process. Together, your business experts and our experienced team will evaluate your options and identify a path forward. With over 2,000 VMware to AWS instance migrations, more than 100 Managed Services customers, and over a decade of experience working with AWS, we have the experience to map out your VMware Exit Strategy.

Migration Services

Sierra-Cedar is a leading cloud infrastructure and application-managed services provider with 20+ years of experience managing enterprise systems, including 500+ Oracle/PeopleSoft and other applications under management. We have significant experience migrating clients from VMware hosts to AWS, allowing us to better scale our services to meet the growing demands of our clients.

Managed Services

Sierra-Cedar has extensive experience in transitioning systems to AWS, having successfully managed these tasks for our own systems and those of our clients. We can help you make your AWS environment secure, compliant, cost-effective, and highly available, just as you’ve done in your data center.

Challenges Faced with VMWare

Sierra-Cedar used VMware for reliable and scalable server virtualization in its private data centers. As its reliance on
VMware grew, the company faced several challenges, including:

License Cost Increases:

Sierra-Cedar anticipated significant licensing cost increases for its 1,800+ VMware instances at the next renewal, and expected no added value or cost recovery options.

Vendor Lock-in:

Sierra-Cedar’s heavy reliance on VMware for large-scale virtualization posed risks due to single-vendor dependence. This limited flexibility to adopt new technologies like AI and data analytics to meet future client needs.

Limited Support for Infrastructure as Code (IaC):

Sierra-Cedar invested heavily in developing its tools using IaC to create, manage, and maintain cloud infrastructure at scale. Compared to VMware, AWS APIs provided additional flexibility to scale and deploy resources using automation.

The Solution

After thoroughly evaluating cloud-native alternatives, Sierra-Cedar decided to migrate its hosting service clients from VMware hosts to native EC2 instances in AWS. This move aimed to elevate operational efficiency, enhance scalability, and control costs by adopting cloud-native services and reducing dependency on traditional data center software, including VMware.

Implementation Process

Sierra-Cedar meticulously planned and executed the migration of over 1,800 VMware instances to EC2 over 15 months, involving 30+ clients and 400 application instances.

What Makes Us Different?

Sierra-Cedar’s Managed Service utilizes FlexOps®, a powerful collection of services, automation, and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools with advanced features like drift detection, blue/green patching, and automated remediation. FlexOps reduces risks, improves efficiency, and enhances control through versioning, change control, and policy enforcement. Ideal for organizations aiming to streamline cloud security and operations and minimize manual errors. FlexOps efficiently manages the entire AWS cloud infrastructure lifecycle.

What Is FlexOps®?

FlexOps is a flexible, “drop-in DevOps” ecosystem of services designed to help you realize the value of AWS in your organization. With years of experience, our certified architects, developers, and engineers provide the skills, vision, and talent to modernize your cloud experience. From design to deployment and migration to managed services, Sierra-Cedar’s FlexOps service helps your organization navigate the complex journey to cloud mastery
  • Analyze existing infrastructure to gather System Inventory and determine the scope and strategy
  • Design of Cloud Infrastructure and Services performed by Certified Solution Architects
  • Develop infrastructure-as-code using Terraform for consistency, reusability, modularization
  • Track changes and contributions to infrastructure as code using a version control system
  • Test code for syntax, functionality, and deployment issues before merging into the main code line
  • Deploy and update infrastructure, configuration, and applications using Scalr
  • Enforce adherence for infrastructure deployment policy using OPA (policy-ascode) to create guardrails
  • Manage GitOps, automation, deployed infrastructure, and/or applications
FlexOPS

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