Challenges
A North American diversified national bank undergoing a significant digital transformation aimed to be 100% cloud-native by 2026. They had limited visibility into their on-premises IT environment looking to migrate and modernize multiple workloads and applications to AWS.
Solution
To address these challenges, CloudSphere ran a discovery across 468+ VMware instances to provide workload and application insights and recommendations for migration and modernization.
Results
- Discovered a total of 4718 applications 4235 COTS and 483 propriety applications running on and their applications services paths via CloudSphere Knowledge Graph.
- Revealed end-of-life 439 operating systems and 59 applications.
- Provided analysis of Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, and Linux workloads move groups for migration and managed services for modernization.
- Gave prescriptive guidance for migration move groups with application complexity scoring and 202 managed service recommendations for modernization of 223 applications.
- Outcomes included a 48% reduction Microsoft SQL cores for licensing optimization.
- Potential carbon emission savings of 2,051 (kg CO2e / year) with Graviton instance types a 60% less than equivalent x86 alternative.
- Results included 64% TCO cost reduction from lift-and-shift by opting for 3Yr RI-all-upfront AWS pricing plan for 408 virtual machines in AWS.
By leveraging CloudSphere’s platform, this diversified national bank successfully addressed its complex IT challenges by not only accelerating the migration planning with their consulting partner with CloudSphere’s Knowledge Graph, but also uncovered significant cost-saving opportunities and reduced risk to drive a successful cloud migration with CloudSphere and AWS.
