Get Started with Microsoft Azure
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The document outlines the process and advantages of cloud migration, emphasizing that it allows companies to reduce costs, enhance scalability, and improve performance by utilizing cloud service providers like Microsoft Azure. It highlights the steps for migrating to the cloud, including establishing goals, creating a migration strategy, and preparing the organization for the cloud environment. Finally, it underscores the importance of managing and governing digital assets once migrated to achieve optimal results.
Get Started with Microsoft Azure
- 1. Extentia, a Merkle Company | Confidential | www.extentia.com GET STARTED WITH MICROSOFT AZURE – CLOUD MIGRATION OPPORTUNITY AND ADOPTION JOURNEY
- 2. Extentia, a Merkle Company | Confidential | www.extentia.com • Cloud Migration is referred to the process when a company moves its data center capabilities or business elements into the cloud, usually to operate in the cloud • For this migration, the base infrastructure is provided by cloud service providers such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Cloud Migration
- 3. Extentia, a Merkle Company | Confidential | www.extentia.com • While many organizations are already embracing cloud technology and are moving away from the legacy infrastructures, cloud migrations are now taking place within the cloud, i.e., migration between different cloud service providers. This process is also known as cloud-to-cloud migration. • Those foraying into the world of clouds should, • Analyze their Business Objectives: how cloud technology fits into their business type • Prepare their Company for the Cloud: what will help streamline their company's processes and improve their business outcomes • Optimize Digital Assets on the Cloud: what to do after migrating to the cloud to achieve excellence with innovative cloud-based technologies Who Should Migrate to the Cloud & How?
- 4. Extentia, a Merkle Company | Confidential | www.extentia.com • There are many reasons and advantages to moving to the clouds. Let us look at a few of them, • Cost: Cloud Migration reduces operating infrastructure costs—hardware, software, staff, the server room, and climate control costs • Scalability: Cloud computing reduces the load from on-premises infrastructure, pushing the data and applications to the cloud • Performance: The performance is directly improved by migrating to the cloud as the applications hosted in the cloud can quickly scale to serve more users and run in geographical locations near end-users • Digital experience: Cloud computing redefines the digital experience by making the data accessible on cloud services. The modern and flexible tools provided to employees lead to enhanced experiences for the end-user Why Migrate to the Cloud?
- 5. Extentia, a Merkle Company | Confidential | www.extentia.com • While each business caters to a different audience and has diverse needs, they customize according to their size and type • Various cloud service providers can assist companies set up their migration process; however, most of them will include the following steps, • Establish Goals: The organization should set desired outcomes to check whether their desired outcome aligns with their expectations to map the cloud migration success • Create an Azure Migration Strategy: An organization must evaluate its assets and workload before using the Azure data migration services. Post which, they should create their adoption plan using Gartner's 5R's (rehost, refactor, revise, rebuild, and replace) • Ready your Organization: Prepare the cloud environment by constructing Azure landing zones that enable migration, modernization, and innovation at an enterprise scale in Azure Steps for Cloud Adoption Journey
- 6. Extentia, a Merkle Company | Confidential | www.extentia.com • Adopt the Cloud: Move and innovate using the Azure native tools such as Azure Migrate, Azure Advisor, Azure Cost Management + Billing, etc. • Govern Digital Estate: Evaluate your organization's history and resolve the gaps across critical domains, as defined in the Governance methodology of the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework - organizational readiness, resource consistency, cost management, deployment acceleration, security baseline, and identity baseline • Manage Digital Estate: The organization gets ownership to manage enterprise Azure workloads and optimize for cost, security, data integrity, etc. Contd.
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