Moving from IBM MAS to Red Hat OpenShift: How?
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Moving from IBM MAS to Red Hat Openshift: How?

In the fall of 2025, IBM will stop supporting IBM Maximo 7.6. The transition to IBM Maximo Application Suite (IBM MAS) and the Red Hat OpenShift platform is therefore getting closer and closer. How do you ensure that your hardware meets the much higher requirements of OpenShift? The simplest solution is to have IBM MAS run in the Gemba Cloud.

22 March 2024 • 11 min read
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We already wrote it in an earlier blog: the upgrade to IBM MAS is not complicated in itself. However, your hardware is a point of attention. Because IBM MAS works on the Red Hat OpenShift container platform and that places considerably higher hardware requirements: you need a multiple of computing power, memory and storage capacity. In addition, managing your OpenShift platform requires additional knowledge.

Management of your database and database server(s)

The higher hardware requirements of OpenShift sound like a challenge, but they don’t have to be. They also offer opportunities in the field of management. As soon as your IBM MAS environment is in the cloud, you will be relieved of this. Direct access to the database is no longer necessary, because all your asset management data is directly accessible via IBM MAS, in an easy, secure and controlled manner. So no one needs to go ‘under the hood’ to get to your data anymore. This saves you license costs and work, from database management to patching middleware. Plus you no longer need any knowledge about this.

IBM MAS as managed services

Of course, there is still the point of the hardware for OpenShift and IBM MAS. This can also be easily solved by making a switch to the cloud, partly or completely. For example, do you want to have a number of your IBM MAS applications on premise or in a public cloud such as Amazon or Microsoft? Or do you still choose to keep certain data in-house, on your own server that is securely connected to IBM MAS in the cloud? That’s all possible. However, you have the least worries by going for managed services. You then purchase IBM MAS as a service, offered from a private cloud. In our case, that is the Gemba Cloud.

Using IBM MAS carefree in the Gemba Cloud

With managed services from the Gemba Cloud, you no longer have to worry about anything. For example, you do not have to invest in hardware or Linux expertise when switching to IBM MAS and OpenShift. You are also flexible in scaling capacity up and down and the security of your IT environment is guaranteed. The management of your IBM MAS environment is entirely with us and you know exactly where you stand in terms of performance, availability and support. We record clear agreements with you about all these matters in SLAs, tailored to the specific needs of your organization. Finally, also important: if you choose the Gemba Cloud, you have one Dutch-speaking point of contact for your IBM MAS managed services.

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