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    AWS Database Migration Service

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AAWS Database Migration Service helps users migrate databases to AWS. The source database remains fully operational during the migration to minimize downtime to applications that rely on the database. The vendor states that AWS Database Migration Service can migrate data to and from most widely used commercial and open-source databases.N/A

    VirtaMove

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AVirtaMove (formerly AppZero), offers the eponymous VirtaMove Migration Intelligence Suite allowing the user to move legacy apps to modern, secure servers.N/A
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    Amazon AWS
    As stated previously, AWS Database Migration Service excels when replicating very specific data elements between environments. AWS Database Migration Service handles replication tasks to load equipment assets or customer job sites from production to QA databases very well. Full load replication - e.g., we need an exact copy of the production database in another region - works well. But when we need to load the QA database with the latest production data - it does work as well. AWS Database Migration Service comes up short because we do not want to wipe the QA database completely and make an exact copy. We want to keep what's already in the QA database and add production data so that we can QA with that level of volume. And at least with our database design, we end up having to do a lot of manual data manipulation and de-duplication.
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    VirtaMove (formerly AppZero)
    Best suited for applications where installing from scratch is not an option or a very difficult one. Migrating applications that you are familiar with, you have support for or have done in the past, via AppZero, in my experience, may become more time/resource consuming. In my environment it makes little sense for example to migrate an Office Suite via AppZero. Good at collapsing tiers (e.g. old application whose demand has waned and it no longer needs to serve large number of users). The score is awarded is a bit misleading, AppZero is invaluable when you have no other choice but for mainstream applications its value drops.
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    Pros
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    VirtaMove (formerly AppZero)
    • When documentation regarding the implementation of an application is missing (e.g. old versions and support is prohibitive to obtain, or in case of homegrown applications) it becomes the tool available to perform the migration.
    • There is always a back-out option, and different approaches/attempts can be made.
    • Will provide you insight on what otherwise would be a "blackbox" application.
    • Allows you to consolidated multi-tiered applications into fewer/single tiers.
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    VirtaMove (formerly AppZero)
    • I'd like to see a more streamlined migration of applications relying on SQL.
    • I'd like to see better documentation, or perhaps labs/examples available.
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    Amazon AWS
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    VirtaMove (formerly AppZero)
    I have not use any other application for this purpose. I've selected AppZero based on peer recommendation and found it to fulfill the functionality I was looking for.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Set it and forget it for maintaining data consistency - moderate cost, zero to minimal maintenance
    • High touch production data loads into QA - negative ROI engineering time investment far exceeded our predictions
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    VirtaMove (formerly AppZero)
    • It has certainly proved to be a worthwhile investment. There were cases where to migrate an application several versions behind with lapsed support would've been a many zeroes expense. Done via AppZero, it was a LOT cheaper.
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