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Synthesis offers consulting migration services from VMware to AWS
The recent acquisition of VMware by Broadcom has introduced a wave of uncertainty and operational shakeups, leaving many businesses scrambling to secure their IT environments. In response to these challenges, Synthesis offers a compelling solution: a no-cost assessment to determine the value of migrating from on-premise VMware environments to AWS native services.
Broadcom’ s acquisition of VMware has brought significant changes, particularly in licensing and operational structures. The shift from perpetual to subscription licensing has increased costs for some customers by up to tenfold. This dramatic expense rise has prompted many organisations to reconsider their IT strategies and explore more costeffective alternatives.
AWS provides enhanced scalability, flexibility, and the opportunity to unlock further innovation with access to its comprehensive suite of services. By moving to AWS, businesses can reduce their reliance on costly VMware licenses and take advantage of AWS’ s robust infrastructure and advanced capabilities.
Synthesis has developed a structured approach to ensure a seamless migration from VMware to AWS. This approach consists of four key phases:
Assess: The first step involves evaluating the current VMware environment and determining the best strategy for migrating workloads to AWS. This phase includes preparing a migration business case and a roadmap for future modernisation.
Mobilise: In this phase, Synthesis prepares workloads for migration by establishing a best practice landing zone, creating a migration framework, and securing the necessary resources. AWS investment can be used to cover this cost partially or fully in some cases.
Migrate and Modernise: Synthesis rapidly executes the migration of VMware servers to AWS, eliminating the need for VMware licenses. This phase ensures minimal downtime and disruption to business operations.
Operate and Optimise, Optional: Postmigration, Synthesis offers managed services to support customer workloads, ensuring a seamless transition and ongoing optimisation.
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Kaseya announces data centre support for Microsoft 365 in South Africa
Kaseya, a global provider of AI-powered cybersecurity and IT management software, announced new data centre regional support in South Africa for Microsoft 365. Through this data centre, Kaseya also supports endpoint backup, with business continuity and disaster recovery to soon be
Dermot McCann offered. The move comes amidst increasing demand from South African customers and partners in the region.
South African businesses must adhere to the Protection of Personal Information Act, POPIA. Further regulation introduced in 2024 – the National Policy on Data and Cloud – also enforces stricter data security and data sovereignty controls.
With data centres in-region, customers can rely on faster backups, which improves their recovery time objective, RTO. It also makes it easier to ship hard drives in and out of the data centre in cases where large amounts of data need to be transported.
“ Our partners asked for this, and we responded,” said Dermot McCann, Executive Vice President and General Manager for EMEA at Kaseya.“ An in-region data centre enables us to better serve our customers, especially with growing compliance demands.”
“ With the rapid digital transformation in Africa, businesses face rising concerns regarding data security, latency, and regulatory compliance,” said Regardt Joubert, Group Chief Executive Officer at Burika Group, an MSP out of Polokwane.
“ Kaseya’ s investment in a South African data centre provides local businesses with enhanced data sovereignty, ensuring compliance with Protection of Personal Information Act, POPIA and other global data regulations. The centre also reduces dependence on international infrastructure, improving uptime, performance and reliability for enterprises across industries.”
Kaseya plans to further invest in its data centre capabilities globally with the projected addition of 15 new data centres in 2025. p
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