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How To Migrate Your Code From PHP 7.4 to 8.1

With the recent end-of-life for PHP 7.4, it’s time to migrate your code. Here are a few options to do that. The end-of-life (EOL) for PHP 7.4 was Monday, November 28, 2022. If you’re like me, that date snuck up much faster than anticipated. While your PHP 7.4 code isn’t going to immediately stop working, you do need to begin making plans for the future of this codebase. What are your options? You could continue to remain on PHP 7.4, but there are several benefits to updating. The biggest are security risk and support. As we move farther and farther away from the…

4 min

Engineering

Migrating Your Oracle And SQL Server Databases To Google Cloud

For several decades, before the rise of cloud computing upended the way we think about databases and applications, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases were a mainstay of business application architectures. But today, as you map out your cloud journey, you’re probably reevaluating your technology choices in light of the cloud’s vast possibilities and current industry trends. In the database realm, these trends include a shift to open source technologies (especially to MySQL, PostgreSQL, and their derivatives), adoption of non-relational databases, multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud strategies, and the need to support global, always-on applications. Each application may require a different cloud…

4 min

How Google Cloud And SAP Solve Big Problems For Big Companies

With SAP Sapphire kicking off today in Orlando, we’re looking forward to seeing our customers and discussing how they can make core processes more efficient and improve how they serve their customers. One thing is certain to be top of mind – the global supply chain challenges facing the world today. It’s affecting every business across every industry, from common household items that once filled store shelves and are now on backorder, to essential goods and services like food and medical treatments, which are at risk. Even cloud-native companies are making changes to ensure they have the insights, equipment, and…

7 min

A Migration Story Part 2: How NCR & Opus Built Better Availability And Resilience For Card Management In The Cloud

This is the second part of the blog series that covers the migration story of NCR Corporation’s Card Management solution, Authentic Cards, to Google Cloud. This installment describes the Google Cloud solutions used in the architecture to strengthen the functional and technical capabilities of the product. We start again by reiterating the fact that migrating legacy systems to the cloud can be challenging for large enterprises, but many companies can benefit by deploying them into the cloud for better performance, scalability, and availability. In this blog we will further explore how NCR and Opus Consulting Solutions designed the cloud solution…

2 min

Introducing Google Cloud’s Tomcat Migration Tooling

Apache Tomcat is one of the most commonly used web servers and servlet containers for running Java applications. Many enterprises run production Java web applications on Tomcat servers, running on virtual machines and are looking to modernize those applications to run in containers and enjoy the benefits of containerized, cloud native environments such as Cloud Run or Google Kubernetes Engine(GKE). While assessing and containerizing a single Java application to run in a container is possible in a manual process. Identifying, assessing and then containerizing many such applications at scale is time consuming, labor intensive and error prone. Having these obstacles increases the costs of…

5 min

Tech

Learn Why And How To Migrate Monolithic Workloads To Containers

Alongside the rise in popularity of cloud computing, there has also been an ongoing movement towards lighter and more flexible workloads. Yet, there is still a significant share of legacy applications in enterprises both large and small running in expensive and harder-to-maintain virtual machine (VM) environments. These workloads are often crucial to the enterprises’ wellbeing, but often come with heavy operational burdens and fees. What if there was an easy way to migrate these complex VMs to a more cloud-native environment, without any source code changes? In this article, I go through some important definitions, talk about the advantages of…

5 min

How To Migrate An On-Premises Data Warehouse To BigQuery On Google Cloud

Data teams across companies have continuous challenges of consolidating data, processing it and making it useful. They deal with challenges such as a mixture of multiple ETL jobs, long ETL windows capacity-bound on-premise data warehouses and ever-increasing demands from users. They also need to make sure that the downstream requirements of ML, reporting and analytics are met with the data processing. And, they need to plan for the future – how will more data be handled and how new downstream teams will be supported? Checkout how Independence Health Group is addressing their enterprise data warehouse (EDW) migration in the video…

Rightmove

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Rightmove Sets Up Home With Google Cloud

LONDON – Dec. 8, 2021 – Rightmove is migrating a number of its systems to Google Cloud to help continue its market-leading tech innovations, reduce the time to release updates, and help in its net-zero carbon journey. The UK’s biggest property website, has a multi-data centre infrastructure, and this year saw visits from home-movers jump to an average of more than 180 million each month, during one of the busiest-ever periods in the housing market. The move to Google Cloud will help Rightmove further speed up the thousands of updates that Rightmove makes to its platform each year. Rightmove will start…

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6 Steps To Successful Mainframe Modernization

Mainframe modernization is typically viewed as a multiyear, transformational journey that requires long planning phases and a massive buildout before any returns can be realized. To be sure, there are many enticing short-term migration options, like offloading work to cheaper processors, getting volume discounts from your mainframe provider, using hardware and middleware emulators, leveraging COBOL-to-Java code generators, slapping REST APIs on top of the mainframe systems, and outsourcing the refactoring and rewriting of code. But while these efforts are well-intentioned, they quickly get stuck in the mud because they don’t scale and as such, are unsustainable over the long term.…

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