International Business Machines Corporation

Lawrence H Thompson

Birgit Monika Pfitzmann

Murthy V Devarakonda

Nikolai A Joukov

Mark Edward Podlaseck

Christian Benjamin Kau

Kun Bai

Michael Tacci

A system and method for cost-based migration planning includes determining cost factors and constraints associated with at least one of migrating and transforming a plurality of components. A cost-based model is constructed using the cost factors and constraints. The cost-based model is applied to groupings of the plurality of components to provide a cost-based determination grouping scheme in accordance with the constraints. The grouping scheme is output to provide migration waves for migrating or transforming the plurality of components.

Cost-based migration waves planning

Analytics and visualization for logical dependency mapping of computer servers may be provided. Data collected from computer servers is received and analyzed to discover logical dependencies among the computer servers, for example, to discover communications between one or more of operating systems, middleware and applications associated with the computer servers. The computer servers may be grouped into one or more dependency groups based at least on a user-defined grouping criterion. The one or more dependency groups and their logical dependencies may be output.

Dependency mapping among a system of servers, analytics and visualization thereof

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Lawrence H Thompson