Enterprises strive to optimize and modernize infrastructure through the cloud, but increasing complexity and costs are holding many migration plans in check. IBM, working closely with AWS, has developed a generative AI-powered solution that accelerates and automates cloud migration at scale, delivering operational efficiencies and helping businesses re-prepare for future growth.
Cloud migration continues apace as companies look to take advantage of scalability, flexibility, cost and greater security benefits. IDC predicts that 50% of all IT workloads worldwide will move to the cloud in the next year. Migrating and modernizing on the AWS cloud offers a range of savings and improvements. Among them:
- 31% average savings on infrastructure costs[1]
- 62% more efficient infrastructure management[2]
- 3x more features delivered per year[3]
- 69% reduction in unplanned downtime[4]
- 43% fewer security incidents annually[5]
But several hurdles are hindering companies’ cloud migration and modernization plans. Existing licensing costs, lack of expert expertise in AWS services, and limited resources and budgets are hindering efforts to accelerate the cloud journey. Many companies need help reaping the benefits of cloud and AWS native services in a timely and productive manner.
“Generative AI is revolutionizing cloud modernization by automating tasks, accelerating insights and optimizing costs,” said Vikas Ganoorkar, Global Cloud Migration Offer Leader, IBM Consulting. “IBM Consulting, with its deep expertise and asset-first modernization strategy, is the ideal partner to guide clients through this transformation and help them rethink traditional approaches. Our proven track record in hybrid cloud and AI and our extensive partner ecosystem best position us to drive successful outcomes for our customers’ cloud modernization journeys.”
IBM’s AI-powered AWS migration and modernization factory
With years of experience and deep knowledge of AWS technologies, IBM Consulting’s AWS Migration and Modernization Factory is an innovative model that delivers a customized migration approach. This squad-based, workflow-oriented method is based on the IBM Garage methodology for app modernization and leverages GenAI and accelerator tools, pre-built migration patterns, and automation. The goal: plan and execute cloud strategies to achieve rapid transformation at scale.
Cloud-based metrics and KPIs such as uptime, development speed, price per VM/application, service health, mean time between failures (MTBF), and CSAT/NPS scores guide the adjustment of migration and modernization plans, enabling scalability without manual intervention. The approach also helps drive consistent quality and results across multiple migrations.
IBM’s suite of migration tools and resources is built in partnership with AWS using Amazon Bedrock. They include:
- GenAI-powered detection as a service: Used to extract key data elements from customer data stores to speed up the application discovery process;
- GenAI-powered migration support to translate natural language queries into SQL queries to track the migration status of applications and servers;
- GenAI-powered design assistantthat applies models to bring efficiency into the design phase.
At the heart of it all is the IBM Consulting Delivery Curator (ICDC), also powered by GenAI, which serves as an end-to-end orchestration platform for delivery execution. Furthermore, AWS offers capabilities such as AWS Migration Hub and AWS Application Migration Services that also help streamline and manage the migration by providing additional visibility, tracking, and coordination.
Interpublic Group (IPG), a leading global advertising and marketing company, turned to IBM and AWS to migrate legacy SAP workloads and applications to AWS Cloud. Using IBM’s Migration Factory and a hybrid-by-design approach, the company successfully migrated two instances of AWS on budget and on time, in just four months. As part of the collaboration, IPG leveraged native AWS toolsets to redesign and redesign several key applications, all of which meet on-premises performance criteria.
The transition to the cloud can be slow and winding, with complexity and resource challenges hindering migration and modernization. With IBM’s GenAI-infused migration tools and methodologies as a guide, the AWS cloud journey is on an accelerated path.
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[1] IDC, Advancing Business and Organizational Transformation to Drive Business Value with Amazon Web Services, February 2018.
[2] IDC, Advancing Business and Organizational Transformation to Drive Business Value with Amazon Web Services, February 2018.
[3] IDC, Advancing Business and Organizational Transformation to Drive Business Value with Amazon Web Services, February 2018.
[4] Nucleus Research, Guide: Understanding the Value of Migrating from On-Premises to AWS for Application Security and Performance, 2020.
[5] Nucleus Research, Guide: Understanding the Value of Migrating from On-Premises to AWS for Application Security and Performance, 2020.
