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Azure Cloud Pre-migration Readiness Assessment

There are many advantages to moving to the cloud. Leveraging them requires an understanding of cloud and how your organization can take best advantage. Our pre-migration service will help you identify and remedy risk early, realize potential ROI delivered by the migration. Optional dependency mapping can bring new knowledge that assists with enterprise decision making and limit business impact.

Assessment deliverables and benefits

  • Azure Total Cost Ownership (TCO) – Identify TCO early to drive business case
  • Migration roadmap – reduce business disruption for integrated systems analysis
  • Dependency Map (optional) – assists with enterprise decision making and limit business impact

Assessment Process

Our team of Microsoft certified cloud experts work with you to formulate and deliver the best strategy and roadmap to Azure cloud, specific to your organizational goals.

Step 1: Initial customer workshop

We will work with you to better understand your in-house capabilities, toolsets, processes, security, business applications and supporting servers.

Step 2: Contract and running assessment tools

Using Azure migrate, we will collect application and server data for systems intended to be migrated Azure. This step involves heavy data collection.

Step 3: Internal data analysis

Based on the data collected from the previous steps, we will perform a workload analysis review and determine feasibility of migrating each server. We then develop and document the optimal cloud strategy that will be supplemented with expert recommendations on servers and applications that could be migrated. A comparison report between your current IT spend and future Azure estimated spend will also be included (based on your current workloads) – Total Cost Ownership analysis (TCO).

Step 4: outcome workshop

We present our findings and gladly be answering your questions. We then help you determine next steps in your cloud journey.

Step 5: post assessment

Our experts are now in a great position to help you with your cloud migration. We can help you harness the power of Microsoft Azure cloud securely through our other cloud offerings and effectively manage them for you. We strive to bring you the best Microsoft Cloud Experience.

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