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Keyva is pleased to announce the certification of the Keyva BMC Atrium Data Pump v3.2.1 for the new ServiceNow Zurich release. Clients can now seamlessly upgrade their ServiceNow App from previous ServiceNow releases (Yokohama, Xanadu) to the Zurich release.

The ServiceNow Zurich release delivers enhanced AI-driven workflows, improved user experiences, and expanded automation capabilities to increase productivity, resilience, and service efficiency across the enterprise.

Keyva's BMC Atrium Data Pump v3.2.1 provides synchronization of CIs, CI attributes, and relationships from the BMC Atrium CMDB into the ServiceNow CMDB. This integration allows organizations to leverage their existing investment in Enterprise Software and avoid costly "Rip and Replace" projects.

Learn more about the Keyva BMC Atrium Data Pump and view all the ServiceNow releases for which Keyva has been certified at the ServiceNow Store: store.servicenow.com.

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• 30%+ average cloud waste in enterprise environments
• 60% average cloud waste in enterprise environments
• $20K monthly average savings Keyva delivers per engagement

The Keyva Cloud Cost Optimization Sprint

A Keyva Cloud Cost Optimization Sprint is a pre-scoped, fixed-price engagement designed to identify, prioritize, and implement cloud cost savings across your environment, and delivered in a structured 6-week sprint with clear, measurable outcomes. What’s Included: Week 1–2 Discovery & Audit Week Full cloud environment audit across all accounts/subscriptions. Inventory of all compute, storage, network, and managed services. Cost breakdown by service, team, environment (dev/test/prod), and tag. Identification of unused, idle, and over-provisioned resources. Deliverable: Cloud Cost Audit Report with full resource inventory and cost attribution map. 3–4 Analysis & Roadmap Right-sizing analysis and recommendations for compute instances and databases. License optimization review (reserved instances, savings plans, committed use). Automation gap assessment for resource lifecycle management. Prioritized savings roadmap with impact matrix. Deliverable: Cost Optimization Roadmap with prioritized recommendations and projected savings by item. Week 5–6 Implementation Implementation of top-priority quick wins (examples): right-sizing of flagged resources, tagging enforcement, budget alerts and automated shutdown policies for dev/test environments, infrastructure-as-code updates for identified patterns. Deliverable: Implemented changes with before/after cost comparison report and runbook for ongoing governance.

• Cloud Cost Audit Report: Full inventory, cost attribution, and waste identification across all cloud accounts.
• Cost Optimization Roadmap: Prioritized recommendations ranked by projected savings and implementation effort.
• Implemented Quick Wins: Hands-on changes including right-sizing, lifecycle automation, and budget alerting.
• Before/After Savings Report: Quantified cost reduction with month-over-month comparison.
• Governance Runbook: Documented processes and IaC templates for ongoing cost discipline.

Case Study: A Keyva client running workloads across eight Azure subscriptions was spending approximately $180,000 per month on cloud infrastructure. Their leadership requested a cost review. Within six weeks, Keyva’s team used tagging strategies to break down cost allocations by environment, identified over-provisioned resources, implemented lifecycle automation, bundled licensing, and configured budget-based alarms. Result: $20,000 per month in sustained savings — an 11% reduction with a payback period under 2 months. Why Keyva

• Cloud-Native Expertise: Proven, hands-on experience across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, grounded in infrastructure-as-code and FinOps methodologies.
• Pre-Scoped for Predictability: Defined scope and transparent pricing ensure predictable outcomes with no scope creep or billing surprises.
• Execution-First Approach: Keyva delivers implemented solutions, not just recommendations. Measurable savings begin during the engagement

[post_title] => Workshops & Assessments: Cost Optimization [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => cost-optimization [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2026-06-01 15:43:30 [post_modified_gmt] => 2026-06-01 15:43:30 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://keyvatech.com/?p=5248 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [2] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 5246 [post_author] => 15 [post_date] => 2026-06-01 15:02:09 [post_date_gmt] => 2026-06-01 15:02:09 [post_content] => CI/CD pipelines are the foundation of modern software delivery, yet most evolve incrementally under delivery pressure without a structured review against best practices. Over time, this results in slow build times, fragile deployments, security gaps, and escalating infrastructure costs. Keyva’s Pipeline Assessment and Optimization solution delivers a structured, expert led evaluation of your CI/CD pipeline portfolio and produces a prioritized, actionable optimization roadmap in three weeks or less.

Assessment Approach

The engagement follows a proven three phase methodology: discovery, analysis, and executive readout. Keyva engineers work directly with your teams, reviewing repositories and pipeline configurations in place and benchmarking your current state against industry best practices across more than ten critical domains. Each engagement evaluates pipelines across the following capability areas: Version control practices, pull request and merge workflows, CI pipeline structure, CD and deployment processes, GitOps practices, pipeline security, testing strategy, pipeline quality, standardization, collaboration and ownership, infrastructure, performance, and observability.

Supported Platforms

The assessment supports a broad range of leading CI/CD platforms commonly used across modern development environments, ensuring relevance regardless of tooling choices. CI/CD Technologies: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps Pipelines, Google Cloud Build, CircleCI, Bitbucket Pipelines, TeamCity, Harness, Argo CD, Flux CD, Tekton, and AWS CodePipeline.

Scope of Engagement

The engagement is delivered through a structured, phased approach designed to provide rapid insight, actionable recommendations, and clear alignment across engineering, platform, and security teams. Discovery and Inventory This phase establishes a clear, shared understanding of the current pipeline landscape and developer experience.

• Stakeholder alignment with engineering, platform, and security leads
• Comprehensive inventory of repositories and pipelines across all platforms
• Developer experience survey to identify friction points and bottlenecks
• Toolchain and integration mapping, including CAs, secrets, artifact registries, and SIEM
• Baseline metric collection covering build duration, failure rates, MTTR, and cost per build

Deliverable: Complete pipeline inventory, baseline metrics, and confirmed assessment scope.

Pipeline Analysis

This phase delivers a deep technical and operational evaluation of pipelines across all assessment domains.

• Detailed review of all assessment categories for each CI/CD platform
• Security focused analysis including secrets handling, OIDC usage, software supply chain risks, and dependency scanning
• GitOps and infrastructure as code pipeline review covering Terraform, Ansible, and Helm
• Standardization gap analysis across teams and repositories
• Up to four structured interviews with platform teams to validate findings

Deliverable: Comprehensive findings matrix and validated interview readouts with the platform team. Optimization and Roadmap Handover This phase translates findings into an executable plan aligned to business and engineering priorities.

• Effort and impact based prioritization of all recommendations
• Phased implementation roadmap highlighting quick wins and strategic improvements
• Executive summary and readout presentation
• Full written assessment report
• Optional two week follow up check in to support execution momentum

Deliverable: Assessment report, executive readout deck, and implementation roadmap.

Outcome

Keyva’s Pipeline Assessment and Optimization solution delivers measurable operational, security, and cost improvements across the software delivery lifecycle.

• Faster Software Delivery: Reduce average build times by 30–50 percent through caching, parallelization, and stage optimization, increasing deployment velocity
• Reduced Security Risk: Eliminate credential exposure, secret sprawl, and supply chain vulnerabilities before they become incidents or audit failures
• Recovered Engineering Capacity: Free developers from pipeline instability, manual fixes, and on call interruptions, redirecting time toward feature and platform work
• Audit Ready CI/CD Controls: Establish documented, enforceable standards that support compliance and governance requirements
• Lower Infrastructure Costs: Right size CI/CD compute resources and eliminate redundant or uncached build steps
• A Scalable Pipeline Foundation: Replace bespoke, fragile scripts with reusable templates and standards that scale without accruing technical debt

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• EDA Monitor: Continuously monitors endpoints, certificate files, and Kubernetes secrets, triggering events when certificates approach renewal thresholds.
• Generate CSR: Generates private keys (RSA, ECDSA, or Ed25519) and certificate signing requests with full SAN and x509 extension support.
• Request Certificate: Submits CSRs to the certificate authority via API and automatically completes HTTP‑01, DNS‑01, and TLS‑ALPN‑01 challenges.
• Deploy Certificate: Pushes signed certificates, private keys, and chains across all configured target platforms.

Certificate Lifetime Reduction Timeline

TLS certificate lifetimes are shrinking rapidly, creating a material operational challenge for organizations relying on manual or semi manual renewal processes. What was once manageable is quickly becoming unsustainable at scale.

Scope of Engagement

The engagement is designed to move quickly from discovery to a production ready automation pipeline while minimizing risk and operational disruption. The scope focuses on practical deployment, validation, and knowledge transfer.

Discovery and Environment Setup

This phase establishes visibility, tooling, and a solid operational foundation for certificate automation.

• Inventory existing certificates and certificate authority relationships
• Document target platforms and deployment topology
• Install and configure Ansible AWX, or integrate with an existing Ansible environment
• Configure CertOps for the applicable certificate authority, whether ACME‑based or commercial
• Establish a local development and testing environment using a self‑signed certificate authority
• Deliverable: A successful local test execution and a comprehensive inventory report of all existing certificates.

Pilot Deployment and Handover

The pilot phase validates the full certificate lifecycle in a controlled environment and transitions operational ownership to your team.

• Deploy CertOps to five pilot endpoints in a non production environment
• Execute the full lifecycle from CSR generation through deployment and validation
• Configure Event Driven Ansible for certificate expiration monitoring
• Conduct team walkthroughs and deliver operational runbook documentation Perform one guided non production deployment with customer team participation

Deliverable: Production ready pipeline supporting one certificate authority and one platform, including runbooks and AWX job templates.

Business Outcome

The Keyva CertOps Automation solution delivers durable operational improvements, reducing risk while eliminating manual toil associated with certificate management at scale.

• A clear path to zero certificate related outages through process and architecture, not one off fixes
• More than 1,200 engineer hours per year redirected from maintenance tasks to platform and product work
• Improved audit readiness with on demand certificate evidence, reducing preparation time and audit findings
• Consistent key rotation on every renewal cycle with private keys never leaving their origin systems
• Reduced security exposure windows, shrinking from months to days
• Positive return on investment within two months for non production environments
• No per certificate licensing costs, allowing expenses to scale flat as certificate volume grows
• A one time investment that protects against all future certificate lifetime reductions

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Keyva is pleased to announce the certification of the Keyva Service Integration Hub for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for the new ServiceNow Zurich release. Clients can now seamlessly upgrade their ServiceNow App from previous ServiceNow releases (Yokohama, Xanadu) to the Zurich release.

The ServiceNow Zurich release delivers enhanced AI-driven workflows, improved user experiences, and expanded automation capabilities to increase productivity, resilience, and service efficiency across the enterprise.

Keyva's Service Integration Hub for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform allows users to initiate and manage Ansible automation tasks directly from ServiceNow Catalog Requests, Change Requests, and more. Users have the flexibility to configure custom triggers and define specific conditions for launch, ensuring that any approvals established within ServiceNow are completed before the corresponding Ansible job is initiated. This integration allows organizations to fulfill IT automation requests through Ansible Automation Platform from a centralized ServiceNow service catalog, without requiring additional ServiceNow licensing such as Orchestrator or Integration Hub.

Learn more about the Keyva Service Integration Hub for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and view all the ServiceNow releases for which Keyva has been certified at the ServiceNow Store: store.servicenow.com.

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Keyva is pleased to announce the certification of the Keyva Service Integration Hub for Red Hat OpenShift for the new ServiceNow Zurich release. Clients can now seamlessly upgrade their ServiceNow App from previous ServiceNow releases (Yokohama, Xanadu) to the Zurich release.

The ServiceNow Zurich release delivers enhanced AI-driven workflows, improved user experiences, and expanded automation capabilities to increase productivity, resilience, and service efficiency across the enterprise.

Keyva's Service Integration Hub for Red Hat OpenShift allows users to trigger Red Hat OpenShift build jobs directly from ServiceNow Catalog Requests, Change Requests, Incident Requests, and more. Users have the flexibility to configure custom triggers and define specific conditions for launch, ensuring that any approvals established within ServiceNow are completed before the corresponding OpenShift deployment job is initiated. This integration allows organizations to fulfill IT automation requests through OpenShift from a centralized ServiceNow service catalog, without requiring additional ServiceNow licensing.

Learn more about the Keyva Service Integration Hub for Red Hat OpenShift and view all the ServiceNow releases for which Keyva has been certified at the ServiceNow Store: store.servicenow.com.

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What a Structured Framework Actually Changes

When we run a Virtualization Migration Assessment, the thing that changes isn't the depth of documentation - it's that we test your workloads, not representative ones. That means standing up PostgreSQL with your schema and your query load. That means running Kubernetes with your application manifests and your resource profiles. That means subjecting the candidate platform to the failure conditions you actually worry about at 2 am. For a healthcare organization we worked with earlier this year, the Kafka throughput numbers were the deciding factor. They were considering two platforms that scored nearly identically across most capability domains. On paper, both were viable. Under load with their actual event volumes and partition configurations, one of them degraded in ways that would have caused real problems for their patient data pipeline. The other didn't. That's not a result you get from reading whitepapers. The framework evaluates platforms across more than 15 domains, including - networking, storage, Day-2 operations, migration tooling, licensing model, observability, and more. But the workload validation is what makes the rest of it trustworthy. Scores without evidence are just opinions.

Making the Decision Stick

The other thing we've learned is that these decisions have to survive a room full of skeptics - the application team that's worried about their deployment pipeline, the security team that has questions about network segmentation, the CFO who wants to understand the TCO comparison. Our deliverable is built for that room: scored comparisons, performance benchmarking results, and a migration roadmap that has actual phases with actual sequencing. By the time an organization starts moving production workloads, there should already be confidence in how the platform behaves under real operational conditions. That's ultimately what the assessment is trying to establish before the migration becomes expensive to reverse. That's what a framework is for. Keyva's Virtualization Migration Framework is available as a Lite, Core, or Premium engagement. Reach out at info@keyvatech.com to discuss your environment. [table id=3 /] [post_title] => When VMware Stopped Being the Safe Choice [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => when-vmware-stopped-being-the-safe-choice [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2026-06-01 15:42:47 [post_modified_gmt] => 2026-06-01 15:42:47 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://keyvatech.com/?p=5233 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [7] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 5230 [post_author] => 7 [post_date] => 2026-05-18 14:57:56 [post_date_gmt] => 2026-05-18 14:57:56 [post_content] => Virtualization Migration Framework Keyva applies a structured, workload validated approach to virtualization platform replacement that helps organizations make informed, high confidence decisions. Modernizing your virtualization platform is not simply a technology decision. It is a high risk, high impact transformation that affects performance, operations, cost, and long term flexibility. Decisions made at this layer can have multi million dollar implications across the organization Traditional approaches often fall short by relying on vendor positioning or theoretical architectures. Keyva’s approach is designed to reduce risk and improve outcomes through evidence, validation, and measurable results. Keyva’s Virtualization Migration Framework and Assessment provides a structured, data driven decision framework built to ensure confidence before committing to change. The framework aligns virtualization strategy with platforms that demonstrate long term viability, strong technical alignment to your use cases, and cost effectiveness. The assessment includes:

• A standardized evaluation framework across critical technical and operational domains
• Real workload validation using representative systems such as databases, containers, and streaming platforms
• Quantified scoring and benchmarking to enable objective comparison
• Financial and operational impact analysis to understand cost, effort, and long term implications This approach ensures decisions are based on validated performance and measurable data.

Our Differentiator

Traditional assessments often rely on vendor claims and theoretical architecture reviews. Keyva’s approach is grounded in evidence, validation, and real-world performance.

• Structured evaluation across more than 15 capability domains
• Objective, weighted scoring model with defined threshold criteria
• Real-world workload testing, including PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and Kafka
• Like-for-like performance comparison against your current virtualization environment
• Decisions supported by backed by measurable data

Scope of Evaluation

The assessment evaluates each platform across the following dimensions:

• Virtual machine and container platforms
• Networking, storage, and security capabilities
• Operational maturity and Day-2 readiness
• Migration feasibility and supporting tooling
• Performance, scalability, and resilience
• Observability and automation
• Licensing model and total cost of ownership

Workload-Based Validation To ensure real world applicability, candidate platforms are validated against representative, production like workloads, including:

• Stateful database workloads, such as PostgreSQL
• Containerized application workloads, based on Kubernetes
• High throughput streaming workloads, such as Kafka

Each workload is evaluated across the following criteria:

• Performance and stability under load
• Scaling behavior and elasticity
• Failure recovery and resilience
• Storage and network characteristics
• Operational complexity and Day 2 considerations

Deliverables The assessment produces clear, structured deliverables designed to support objective comparison, informed decision making, and execution planning.

• Standardized evaluation framework and scoring model
• Detailed workload validation and proof of concept test plan
• Comparative vendor scorecards
• Performance benchmarking results
• Cost and licensing analysis, including total cost of ownership
• Migration strategy and phased roadmap
• Executive level decision recommendation

Business Outcomes

Keyva enables faster, lower risk decisions while aligning technical findings with business priorities.

• Confident platform selection supported by objective data
• Reduced migration risk and uncertainty
• Clear visibility into cost versus value tradeoffs
• Accelerated and aligned decision making
•  Alignment across infrastructure, platform, and application teams

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Keyva is pleased to announce the certification of the Keyva BMC Atrium Data Pump v3.2.1 for the new ServiceNow Zurich release. Clients can now seamlessly upgrade their ServiceNow App from previous ServiceNow releases (Yokohama, Xanadu) to the Zurich release.

The ServiceNow Zurich release delivers enhanced AI-driven workflows, improved user experiences, and expanded automation capabilities to increase productivity, resilience, and service efficiency across the enterprise.

Keyva's BMC Atrium Data Pump v3.2.1 provides synchronization of CIs, CI attributes, and relationships from the BMC Atrium CMDB into the ServiceNow CMDB. This integration allows organizations to leverage their existing investment in Enterprise Software and avoid costly "Rip and Replace" projects.

Learn more about the Keyva BMC Atrium Data Pump and view all the ServiceNow releases for which Keyva has been certified at the ServiceNow Store: store.servicenow.com.

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