However, most migration to cloud model does not fail because of bad technology but because of lax planning and evaluation. It is exactly in this situation that Azure Migrate steps in. For the unversed, Azure Migrate is Microsoft’s unified hub that takes care of assessment, migration, and modernization. It can also be dubbed as the nerve centre of an enterprise’s changeover to a cloud model.

Databytes Consulting Tech, headquartered in Bengaluru with a branch office in Banjara Hills in Hyderabad, has been facilitating and helping businesses make this transformation.

Why Azure Migrate Is The Focus For Digital Transformation

The conventional method of migrating spreadsheets, manual reliance mapping, and guesswork is a process of a bygone era. It is chaotic and also risky. Compare this with Azure Migrate, which replaces this mess with a singular, unified portal.

You do not have to rack your brains for dependency visualization or assessment. You have the migration tools to achieve this in one place. The best thing about Azure Migrate is its modular design. The user does not have to use every tool in the suite. The user can use it for detecting VMware, SQL Server assessment, or for agentless replication of physical servers. It optimises the IT infrastructure of the enterprise and not the other way around.

See the following example to better understand the benefits. An enterprise located in Pune may be using a mix of Windows Server 2008, some old Linux boxes, and a critical Oracle database. The enterprise is just starting and has a small IT team. Azure Migrate fills all the missing gaps by evaluating those workloads in Azure versus on-premises. Azure Migrate also makes sure your migration is compliant with the regulatory requirements of the RBI or SEBI. This is very important for BSFI companies. It also ensures end-of-support software, running costs, and application dependencies.

Assessment and Dependency Mapping

The assessment stage is the most important part in any cloud migration process. Azure Migrate will install hardware, discover servers, and grade their performance. It also checks which servers are communicating with one another and which ones are isolated. It also provides answers to questions such as which entity is fit for modernisation to PaaS like Azure SQL Database or App Service.

Take the example of IT hubs like Bengaluru or Pune, which house thousands of startups and mid-sized enterprises. The IT infrastructure is an amalgam of diverse vendors, operating systems, and network configurations. A migration without proper dependency mapping is a prelude to disaster. Azure Migrate sniffs out these pitfalls before it precipitates a disaster. Azure Migrate assessment report tells you the estimated monthly cost, recommends Azure VM size, and also provides actionable intelligence, not just raw data.

Execution and Modernization

Azure Migrate uses agentless replication for VMware setups, while for Hyper-V, it uses the Azure Site Recovery engine. It installs a lightweight agent for physical servers. Enterprises also have the option to switch over from their aging SQL Server 2012 to an Azure VM, or still better, upgrade to Azure SQL Managed Instance. Additionally, you can also upgrade from your custom web app on a VM, or refactor to Azure App Service.

Databytes Consulting Tech is ready to help. They will conduct an assessment, build a business case, execute the migration, and optimize.

Stop planning. Start moving.

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