Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Intel & altra partner to revolutionize azure migrations
Customers who are migrating their workloads to Microsoft Azure public cloud have a lot of decisions to make. Whether they want to lift and shift directly into Azure, pick a SaaS or PaaS solution, or completely refactor their workloads. Many times, customers choose a trusted partner to assist them in their migration strategy. This is one of those scenarios where Altra's Dr Migrate comes into play. Dr Migrate has showcased its technical prowess in enabling Intel technologies in its migration strategies.
Altra are a leading Independent Software Vendor (ISV) and developer of Dr Migrate. They’re working with Intel's optimized hardware and software technologies to enhance the performance of workloads migrating to Microsoft Azure. As organizations increasingly turn to the cloud for scalability, flexibility, and efficiency, Dr Migrate focuses on Intel architecture to deliver optimized solutions for customers navigating the complex landscape of workload migration strategies.
This optimization focus streamlines and enhances the migration experience for businesses by aligning Intel's advanced hardware capabilities and Altra’s expertise in AI-assisted network discovery and workload migrations. Dr Migrate offers a new, synergistic approach to addressing the business and technical challenges of cloud migration. As part of a cloud solution architect’s daily tasks, sometimes choosing a partner can save you time and effort and deliver improved time to value.
Chris Cook, CEO of Altra, stated,
“Our collaboration with Intel has helped us deliver market-leading cloud migration functionality. With their support, we have added features to Dr Migrate that help customers optimize their Azure platform and costs, as well as provide analytics for environmental sustainability reporting. With Intel’s help, the Dr Migrate team is currently developing some truly next-level capability, and we cannot wait to share it with the world.”
Key highlights of this collaborative partnership include:
- Intel's Optimization Technologies: Intel is playing a pivotal role in optimizing the performance of workload migration to Azure. With optimized hardware and software solutions, Intel’s focus is to enable Dr Migrate to maximize the efficiency and speed of data transfers, processing, and storage, ensuring that organizations experience a seamless transition to the cloud.
- Dr Migrate's Azure Expertise: As one of the foremost ISVs for workload migrations to Azure, Altra’s Dr Migrate team brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the collaboration. Their AI-enhanced tools and migration methodologies have helped many complex businesses successfully and effectively move their workloads to the cloud.
- Enhanced Performance for Azure Workloads: The primary goal of this collaboration is to provide customers with an optimized and efficient migration process. By combining Intel's hardware accelerators and code optimizations with Dr Migrate's migration solutions, the partnership aims to deliver superior performance, reduced downtime and enhanced overall reliability for Azure workloads.
- Customer-Centric Approach: Addressing the needs of our customers is the primary focal point. We strive to improve performance and reliability throughout the process. Businesses can collaborate with our team to help accelerate their migration plans and understand that we are driving for the best results possible. These focus points drive improved TCO value to end-users and provide improved migration efficiencies as well.
Andy Lyons, Chief Product Owner of Dr Migrate at Altra, states,
“Dr Migrate is a game changer for businesses migrating, securing, or managing workloads on Azure. It stands out against traditional migration tools by using AI to provide actionable advice for workload and cost optimization. These AI-assisted recommendations help CFOs, CTOs, architects, application developers, and network, security, and infrastructure teams. We are excited to continue working with Intel to further enhance features and benefits for businesses using Dr Migrate.”
Alexis Crowell, Intel's Chief Technology Officer and vice President of Sales, Marketing, and Communications Group at Intel Asia Pacific and Japan, confirmed the importance of the partnership with Altra. “Working with ISV partners like Altra is a significant leap forward in our mission to enhance cloud migration experiences. By integrating our optimization recipes and benchmarking data with Dr Migrate's AI-driven assessment and migration tools, we are reaching new heights in cloud computing. These efforts are designed to streamline the migration process, and allow customers to migrate to Intel-optimized Azure cloud instances that are rightsized and optimally configured for their unique workloads, making their transition to Microsoft Azure as seamless and effective as possible.”