CAST Imaging

Last update: October 22, 2024

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Product overview

Category	Product capabilities
Product website	CAST Imaging
Product certifications AWS Competency Program competencies and other certifications	AWS Migration and Modernization – Discovery, Planning, and Recommendation
AWS Marketplace Link to subscribe or download	CAST Imaging on AWS Marketplace
Tool deployment model Product can be SaaS-based or customer-deployed	Servers deployed on AWS (customer VPC) Servers deployed on premises in customer environment
Compliance	General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001, 27017, 27018, and 27701
Service model	Full self-service – Deployment, management, and maintenance can be done by the customer or end-user Self-service with vendor support – Deployment, management, and maintenance can be done by customer or end-user with the option of vendor support Managed service (including partner-enabled service) – Deployment, management, and maintenance require professional services
Pricing model	Subscription

Discovery, planning, and recommendation capabilities

Category	Product capabilities
Discovery method The ability to support one or more of the following discovery methods: Agentless – Uses protocols or interfaces such as SNMP or WMI Agent-based – Requires installation of software on the source resources, such as Linux or Windows servers Login-based – Uses protocols, such as SSH and RDP, to log in to the source servers	Agent-based
Resources discoverable The ability to discover servers, databases, storage systems, network devices, software processes, containers, and mainframes	Not available
Operating systems discoverable	Not available
Other resources discoverable	CAST Imaging scans source code, configuration files, database scripts and other artifacts constituting a system of applications and databases to discover its architecture with its components, dependencies, end-to-end transaction flows and datagraphs, structural flaws, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and maintainability. CAST Imaging also makes recommendations based on various modernization pathways.
Discovery of resource profiles The ability to discover the CPU family (such as x86 or RISC/PowerPC), number of CPU cores, memory size, number of disks, storage size, IOPS, network interfaces, or bandwidth	Not available
Resource utilization data collection The ability to collect time-series utilization data, such peak, average, median, standard deviation, IOPS, throughput, percentile with sampling interval of 5 minutes, and minimum sampling duration of 1 month	Not available
Application dependency level The ability to discover application dependency and export dependency data: Application and server dependency – Individual servers and dependencies that form an application Application and software process dependency – Individual software processes, configurations, and dependencies that form an application Application and code dependency – Individual programming code, configurations, and dependencies that form an application	Application and code dependency
Visualization level The ability to provide multiple-level visualization of applications: All resource and applications – An entire on-premises or source environment with all resources and applications Single application – A single application across its resources, end to end Single application and its software processes – Individual software processes and dependencies that form an application Single application and its programming code – Individual programming code and dependencies that form an application	All resource and applications Single application and its programming code
Database details discovery, source database system	Not available
Database details discovery, database type	MongoDB Redis CAST Imaging covers 12+ database types. See Coverage overview.
Storage details discovery The ability to discover storage details, such as systems, types, capacity, configuration, utilization, and object metadata	Not available
Storage systems discoverable The ability to discovery storage systems, such as EMC Isilon, EMC VMAX, Hitachi Vantara, HPE 3PAR, and Pure Storage	Not available
File system details discovery	Not available
Software details discovery, programming languages	CAST Imaging covers 50+ programming languages. See Coverage overview.
Software details discovery, frameworks or libraries	CAST Imaging covers hundreds of frameworks. See Coverage overview.
Software details discovery, ISV products The ability to discover independent software vendor (ISV) products, such as Splunk Enterprise or F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition	Not available
Container details discovery	Not available
License discovery	Not available
Data sovereignty support The ability to keep discovered data within a specific geographic region	Available
Data export ability The ability to export the discovered data into a usable format, such as CSV or JSON	Available
Code analysis The ability to support static and dynamic code analysis, optionally identifying: Deprecated code Security concerns in code Resilience concerns in code	Deprecated code Security concerns in code Resilience concerns in code CAST Imaging automatically discovers the architecture of a system of applications and databases with its components, dependencies, end-to-end transaction flows and datagraphs, structural flaws, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and maintainability. CAST Imaging also makes recommendations based on various modernization paths.
Pipeline integration The ability to integrate with CI/CD pipelines for continuous code analysis	Available
Service discovery, mapping The ability to automate service discovery mapping, which identifies the underlying services, dependencies, and communication patterns (including to external resources, such as SaaS providers)	Available
Service discovery, recommendations The ability to suggest optimizations for discovered services	Partial: to a certain level of detail (for example, only on API calls)
Monolith decomposition, identification The ability to identify candidate microservices, given classes, objects, functions, and stored procedures	Available
Monolith decomposition, impact analysis The ability to analyze the impact of the decomposition process	Available
Open source compliance analysis, identification The ability to identify non-compliant open source solutions within an application	Available
Open source compliance analysis, recommendations The ability to suggest compliant alternatives or remediation steps	Not available
Framework migration, standard The ability to support framework migrations, such as Spring to Spring Boot or .NET Framework to .NET 6+	Available; can report on compatibility and necessary changes
Framework migration, legacy The ability to migrate legacy frameworks, databases, or data formats during framework migrations	Available
Environmental impact analysis The ability to provide guidance about the sustainability of applications, such as before and after a migration	Available
Cost of change analysis, effort The ability to estimate the effort required to modernize an application	Available
Cost of change analysis, architecture The ability to estimate the target architecture costs after modernizing an application	Not available
Predictive outcome analysis The ability to rate modernization outcomes based on aggregated, anonymized data, such as the risk of change, the effort of change, and a confidence level that the change will be successful	Available
Weighted analysis, preferences The ability to weight preferences for modernization recommendations based on considerations such as performance, resilience, and cost	Available
Weighted analysis, organizational priorities The ability to customize and adjust weights as organizational priorities change	Available