Aging data platforms do not get cheaper to keep. They get riskier.
Most organizations know their legacy infrastructure is a problem. Few act on it until something breaks. UNMC did not wait.
Does this describe your platform?
- Support and licensing costs go up every year
- Security features do not meet current compliance requirements
- Hiring people who know the platform gets harder every year
- Performance hits a ceiling as your data grows
- Your team is managing around limitations instead of moving past them
What Armely did for UNMC
UNMC had run on Sybase ASE for more than 20 years, with over 5TB of critical healthcare data. The platform could not meet their security requirements, the talent pool had thinned, and costs were rising with no new capability to show for it.
Armely assessed the full environment, planned the migration, and moved everything to Microsoft SQL Server with AlwaysOn high availability, end-to-end encryption, Active Directory authentication, and full auditing.
The Sybase servers were decommissioned after a clean cutover.
At a glance
| Before | After |
|---|---|
| Sybase ASE running for more than 20 years with no failover capability | SQL Server with AlwaysOn high availability |
| Limited encryption, no TDE, and no Always Encrypted | Always Encrypted, TDE, and Dynamic Data Masking in production |
| Local accounts and limited access controls | Active Directory authentication, gMSA, role-based granular permissions, and full auditing |
| Shrinking talent pool and rising support costs | Widely available SQL Server expertise and standard tooling |
| More than 5TB on aging hardware, with HIPAA compliance at risk | Full data migrated and Sybase servers decommissioned |