Stages of Azure Migration Approach

    • STRATEGY

        Get leadership buy-in

        Make sure of a successful migration with this crucial first phase—executive sponsorship. Describe your cloud migration plan drivers and get commitment from leadership to chase your migration project. Initiate with leadership buy-in to get the required support on your organization’s diverse requirement in cloud migration, as well as support for assigning talent and initial budget resources, with the expectation that budgets can be refined in future.

        Align your stakeholders

        Synchronize your migration throughout multiple tasks and allow all stakeholders aligned on time. Include app owners impacted by migration in initial cloud migration planning assists to strengthen the advantages of hosting their apps on Azure. Comprise IT infrastructure clusters, like networking, security and recognize players in your architecture and designing discussions.

        Engage Partner Support

        For Professionals assistance, work with a partner to plan and deploy your migration projects considering minimal disturbance to the business. Involve partner assistance with automation, along with advice for migrating and renovating certain circumstances & business processes.

    • PLAN

        Discover and Assess Your Environment

        Minimize risks and make sure a streamlined migration using Azure Migrate to pile up an inventory of the servers and databases in your landscape. Evaluate your applications to recognize dependencies among servers and involve all the required application tools in your cloud migration strategy. Yield benefit of the centralized repository in Azure Migrate to get whole insights and visibility of your migration development.

        Make Your Business Case

        Evaluate the potential cost savings of migrating to Azure by calculating and comparing your total cost for Azure with that of a comparable on-premises deployment.

        Plan and Prioritize

        Order your task loads into migration waves based on their business impact and complexity. Build a comprehensive strategy of migration waves with milestones to help application holders and your cloud team to plan their participation.

    • READY

        Build technical skills and support readiness

        Build your teams with the skills crucial to migrate workloads and handle them once in Azure. Outline your support requirements, bridge any current gaps and make sure that your business and IT experts are prepared for the transformation and new technologies.

        Prepare your cloud environment

        Set up a landing area in the cloud for your new Azure workloads. Use the cloud adoption architecture migration design to rapidly set-up a cloud landscape.

    • ADOPT

        Deploy and run a pilot migration

        This can upsurge to get your teams accustomed with the migration activities, consists of the usage of Azure migration tools, testing and cutover.

        Iterate through your migration waves

        As your migration team gets more familiar with the approach, expect the project to speed-up as you institute repeatability.

    • GOVERN

        Establish governance practices

        Once you shift your workloads to Azure, it creates and extends your applications rapidly while handling by adopting governance practices.

        Benchmark and improve your governance

        Initiate recognizing your company’s governance requirements with the yardstick tools.

    • MANAGE

        Establish good operational practices

        Escape costly business disturbances and make sure that your applications run optimally by using the approach for management to organize your migrated workloads by criticality and business value.

        Enable a secure and resilient platform

        Safeguards workloads throughout your hybrid landscape with intelligent security services. Streamline your data protection plan by setting up Azure Backup.

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