LinuxForce Migration Services
Whether you are migrating one system or your whole server room,
LinuxForce can help. We are the Linux migration experts. We have
migrated whole server clusters and mission critical systems. Our staff
knows how to ensure a smooth transition. We have migrated systems
for AIG, AFLAC, the Franklin Institute Science Museum and many more.
Contact us to plan and manage your migration to
Open Source Software, Linux or Debian GNU/Linux.
The LinuxForce Migration Methodology
- Preliminary Audit. The first step is to audit
the existing systems to understand comprehensively the hardware,
software, communications protocols, user and software interfaces,
security requirements, etc. involved in the system(s) to be
migrated.
- Specifications. Engineer and specify the new
post-migration environment.
- Deployment. Deploy the new post-migration system in a
test environment.
- Testing. After a complete testing of all components
by the migration technicians and engineers, all business constituencies
need to thoroughly test the new system(s) to ensure that their particular
needs will be met by the new system.
- Migration. Implement the detailed step-by-step plan
to transition the old environment into standby mode and bring the new
environment into production status as seamlessly as possible (often zero
downtime plans can be developed).
- Evaluation. Evaluate the effectiveness of the
migration on an ongoing basis and make recommendations designed to ensure
continued, positive business results.
Appendix: Reasons to Migrate to Open Source Software (OSS)
OSS is a disruptive technology. It enables a fundamental change to the
way organizations provide IT services. It is a move away from a product
to a service based industry. OSS costs nothing to license. The question
is where to get support. In the greater Philadelphia region, LinuxForce
is the premiere third party support company for OSS. LinuxForce bridges
your organization to the OSS community in which we have been immersed
since 1993.
There are many reasons to migrate to OSS. These include:
- OSS provides freedom from the concerns of software licensing.
Using lock-in (sometimes called proprietary) software involves
tracking software licenses and usage which demands extra
administration and legal exposure. Both raise costs.
- The foundation of the business case for Open Source is high
reliability. Open Source software is transparent and is
'peer-reviewed', that is, scrutinized and tested by many users and
developers around the world - a resource pool that not even the
largest software monopoly can afford. The result is mature code
that makes for software of a relatively high level of quality.
- OSS solutions tend to be more general purpose and so incur lower
implementation, evolution, and training costs.
- OSS software is more transparent, adaptable, and repairable than
lock-in software because it is possible for anyone with the
appropriate skills to audit how the software works and modify it
to fix a bug or misfeature or improve it to better meet business
needs.
- OSS solutions tend to work on less expensive, more diverse and
scalable hardware platforms.
- OSS provides open standards (lock-in file formats and protocols
decrease your organizations options).
- OSS provides a greater level of security.
- The cost of the OSS itself: $0.
- For server computing, OSS is well understood and is extensively
deployed. Migrating servers to OSS server software can generally be
done without having any adverse effects on the users.
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