June 2018 Newsletter, Tidal Migrations

June has been a productive month under the wave here at Tidal Migrations and in the cloud community at large; check it out!

Product News

• When doing a public domain discovery, the results now include the exact region that the application domain is being served from, yay!
• Dollars matter: currency is now a first-class citizen and you can more easily track financials across your portfolio and resources with any currency related values you choose.

Tidal Migrations Platform: Feature Highlight of the Month

When you plan your cloud migration, knowing the value an application brings to the business is critical to the prioritization of which app(s) should be: Transformed to be more cloud native, Migrated to an Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Which app(s) should be repurchased.

In addition to capturing the technological aspects of each app in your portfolio, the interview feature empowers you with a holistic view of each app simplifying these prioritization decisions.

We capture the value to the business for each application utilizing a 15-20 minute interview with the app owner.

Pro tip: When looking at your entire portfolio of applications, rapidly search, sort and sum the values for all of your applications to better understand the overall business impact of your cloud migration program.

As always, we’re grateful for your product feedback and new feature ideas, so keep them coming at info@tidalmigrations.com.

You can always see the latest improvements and fixes in the changelog.

Cloud News

• Microsoft Announces Purchase of GitHub Microsoft spurred some controversy with news of its acquisition of the software repository company GitHub.
  TechBeacon’s take
  Forbes take
  For some fun facts, check out our news release from earlier in the month.

• Docker Aims to Federate Container Management Across Clouds Docker is launching initiatives to address the realization that enterprises are adopting a hybrid multi-cloud approach to their digital transformation projects, similar to the philosophy embraced by OpenShift, Heptio, Platform9, Giant Swarm, Tectonic, and Rancher.

• Rivermeadow Announces Support for Microsoft Azure RiverMeadow an automated application workload migration technology now supports Azure.

• New Open Source Cloud Development Platform, Pulumi Pulumi is launched. Pulumi delivers a single, consistent programming model and set of tools to program and manage JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and Go languages, and AWS, Azure, and GCP clouds, in addition to Kubernetes targeting any public, private, or hybrid cloud, supported by a rich ecosystem of reusable packages.

Events

• Toronto Cloud Migration Clan Meetup In case you missed it, our June Meetup had to be postponed until the fall due to extenuating circumstances with our guest speaker. The Clan won’t get together physically until the fall, however, stay tuned for our series of short series of webinars about cloud migration “in the trenches” starting in July. The Clan is ever expanding, please join us.

• Red Hat Day Toronto Tidal had a great time sponsoring the annual Red Hat Day Toronto on June 20th. About 300 people attended at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel with tremendous sharing of best practices and current thinking. The videos aren’t available yet but we will share them in a future edition.

• Dash Conference Dash, July 11-12 in NYC, is a new conference about building and scaling the next generation of applications, infrastructure, and technical teams, hosted by Datadog.

That’s all for June 2018. If you’ve enjoyed reading this, please consider forwarding it and follow us on twitter to stay up to date.

See you in July.

Missed May’s newsletter? Here you go: https://tidalmigrations.com/2018-may-newsletter/

-Tidal Migrations
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