MaaS analyzed the mojoPortal application, identified its workloads suitable for modernization, and performed migration to Microsoft Azure DBaaS and App Service seamlessly within hours.

Architecture Diagram:

Customer’s datacenters had 733 servers running on 3 secured locations across the UK. Servers include a mix of both physical and virtual servers. Customer’s datacenter were analyzed for Microsoft Azure migration using 3 Vanguard Scanners.

Benefits:

  • Rapid Cloud migration through automation.

  • Re-architecting to modern Cloud PaaS and Serverless technologies.

  • Zero data loss and downtime during migration.

  • Highly available application setup on Cloud.

  • Cost savings through application modernization.

Content Management System

Modernization to PaaS Services on Microsoft Azure

mojoPortal, a leading open-source content management system (CMS), has been powering websites, from simple blogs to complex portals and large enterprise websites. There has been a great interest among its users to host mojoPortal on Cloud to leverage advanced Cloud services for scalability.

     

Challenges:

  • Identifying the workload components of the application and its dependent resources for modernization.
  • Application had to be migrated from on-premises servers to PaaS services on Cloud without source code changes.
  • Application architecture needs to be optimized for both performance & cost.
  • After migrating to PaaS services, the application must be configured to make it up and running on Cloud.

Under Corent’s OpenSaaS initiative™, several open-source applications were converted into SaaS. Some of the applications were selected for modernization and mojoPortal was selected, assessed, and modernized.

Solution:

  • MaaS Scanner identified the application’s workload components and its associated resources through MaaS Deep Scan.
  • Using MaaS orchestrated modernization migration mechanism, required workload components were migrated to DBaaS services and App Service on Microsoft Azure without affecting the application setup.
  • PaaS services were used on Cloud instead of VMs that resulted in a cost savings of up to 10% and eliminated maintenance costs/efforts.
  • Corent developed automation scripts that configure the application launched using PaaS services and make it operational on Cloud.
  • MaaS migrated all the data available in source servers to PaaS services without any data loss.

Result:

Using MaaS, Corent identified suitable App PaaS and DBaaS services available on Microsoft Azure. mojoPortal was migrated successfully to Microsoft Azure with a re-architected deployment model complementing the PaaS services. The successful modernization migration meant that mojoPortal is now available as a highly available setup on Microsoft Azure with modern Cloud technologies, delivering superior solutions to its customers.