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Azure Cloud Migration Services and Best Practices

Migrate to azure cloud and take advantage of secure cloud services that integrate seamlessly with onpremise environments.

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Azure cloud migration services and tools

Exeo is a trusted Microsoft Azure cloud migration partner we use powerful tools and services to smoothly transition your on-premises workloads and data to the secure and scalable Azure platform.

These services include:

  1. Azure Migrate: A tool that helps assess, plan, and migrate on-premises workloads to Azure.
  2. Azure Site Recovery: A disaster recovery and business continuity solution that can help ensure your applications and data are always available.
  3. Azure Data Migration Service: A tool that helps to efficiently migrate on-premises and cloud data to Azure using best practices.
  4. Azure Arc: A service that allows organizations to manage resources on-premises and in other clouds as if they were in Azure.
  5. Azure Stack: An extension of Azure that allows organizations to run Azure services on-premises.

These services provide guidance, tools, and best practices to help organizations with the assessment, planning, migration, and ongoing management of their workloads on Azure.

Importance of migration to the Azure Cloud platform

Migrating to the Azure cloud platform is essential for several reasons.

  • With Azure, you can quickly scale up or down your resources as needed, which allows you to adapt to changing business needs.
  • Azure offers a wide range of tools and services, from infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to platform as a service (PaaS) to software as a service (SaaS), that can be used to support a variety of workloads and use cases.
  • You get the security and compliance capabilities provided by the platform. Azure meets a wide variety of compliance standards and regulations. It gives several security features, such as Azure Security Center and Azure Key Vault, to help protect your data and applications.
  • Migrating to Azure Cloud allows you to use the platform’s global reach. With its global reach, Azure also provides disaster recovery and business continuity solutions that can help ensure your applications and data are always available.

Key Azure Services

IAAS: Compute services for virtual machines of different types.

Azure Kubernetes Engine (AKE): The managed Kubernetes services from Azure including all the required functions like loadbalancers.

PAAS: Storage options, database services like Azure SQL.

Security: Security products like Defender, the only security for Azure PAAS services and Sentinel, flagship security analytics platform..

AI & ML: Azure cognitive services API proposed for developers to integrate in their apps on a pay per use model

Azure Cloud migration benefits

Azure platform has several advantages that may make it a better choice for your organization. Here are six of them:

 

Global Reach

Azure has a presence in over 90 regions worldwide. This allows organizations to deploy their applications and data closer to their users, reducing latency and improving performance.

Hybrid Cloud Capabilities

Azure provides several tools and services that make it easy to connect on-premises resources to the cloud, such as Azure Arc and Azure Stack.

Security & Compliance

Azure meets a wide variety of compliance standards and regulations. It provides compliance-related features such as Azure Policy and Azure Compliance Manager. It also provides some best-in-class security services like Defender and Sentinel.

Integration with Microsoft Tools

Azure is part of the Microsoft ecosystem; it integrates well with other Microsoft tools and services such as Active Directory, PowerShell, and Visual Studio. This makes it easier for companies already using Microsoft products to adopt Azure.

DevOps

Azure provides various tools and services that make it easy to develop, deploy, and manage applications, such as Azure App Service, Azure Kubernetes Service, and Azure DevOps.

Wide range of services

Azure offers a wide range of services, including computing, storage, databases, AI, and IoT, to meet various business needs. Their AI and ML models are proposed as a service and can be easily integrated into applications.

Challenges associated with migrating to the Azure cloud platform

Migrating to the Azure cloud platform can present several challenges, but these challenges can be overcome with the right approach.

One common challenge is the complexity of migrating large and complex workloads. This can be overcome by using services such as Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery, which provide best practices, tools, and guidance to help you to assess, plan and execute your migration.

Another challenge is the potential for data loss or disruption during the migration process. That’s where the help comes in Azure Cloud Migration tools that provide minimal downtime migration.

One more problem is the security and compliance of the platform. Azure provides many security features. However, it is essential to ensure that your organization’s security and compliance needs are met before and after migration.

Finally – the cost of migrating and operating on Azure. Azure provides several tools and services that can help businesses better manage and optimize their cloud spend. Still, it’s crucial to assess the long-term costs of running your workloads on Azure versus on-premises or other cloud platforms.

Microsoft Azure Cloud Migration Services by Exeo

At Exeo, we offer a wide range of services to help organizations migrate to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

  1. Our Azure Cloud Migration service helps organizations move their on-premises workloads and data to Azure with minimal downtime and risk. We provide best practices, tools, and guidance to help our clients to assess, plan and execute their migration.
  2. Our Azure DevOps Migration Service helps organizations to move their source code, work items, and other artifacts to Azure DevOps. This service helps to improve the software development and delivery process.
  3. We also provide Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing solutions that allow organizations to take advantage of the scalability and flexibility provided by Azure.

Our team has the expertise and experience to help organizations to improve their IT capabilities, reduce costs, and increase their competitiveness by leveraging the capabilities of Azure. At Exeo, we ensure that our Azure solutions meet our client’s security and compliance needs. We also provide our clients with continuous monitoring, support, and guidance throughout and after migration to ensure they take full advantage of Azure capabilities and global reach.

Services Exeo provides on Azure

Azure CloudOps

Site Reliability Engineering*, Monitoring and administration of the Azure Cloud environment around the clock and 24x7

Azure DevOps

Monitoring and managing the DevOps process by integrating with the developer on one side and to the service edge on the other

Azure SecOps

Monitoring, detecting and responding to threats on user, applications or resources in Azure.

*For more detail on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) vs DevOps, you can read the following post.

Why use Exeo's Azure Cloud Migration services?

Expertise and Experience

Exeo’s team of experts has the knowledge and experience necessary to help organizations to plan and execute a successful migration to Azure using best practices and Azure Migration Services such as Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery.

Minimal Downtime

Exeo’s Azure Cloud Migration services use Azure Cloud Migration tools that provide minimal downtime migration, allowing organizations to continue with their operations while migrating to Azure.

Managed Services

Exeo provides managed services and guidance to organizations after migration, to help them take full advantage of Azure capabilities and ensure their long-term success on the platform. This also includes support to guide their development team in adopting the DevOps discipline.

Azure Cloud Migration FAQs

Azure Cloud Migration scenarios include moving on-premises workloads to Azure, migrating between Azure regions, and moving to Azure from other cloud providers using Azure Migration Services such as Azure Migrate and Disaster Recovery operations using Azure Site Recovery (ASR).

Azure Data Migration Service is a tool that helps to migrate on-premises and cloud data to Azure. It supports various data sources like SQL Server, MySQL, and MongoDB, and allows you to perform migration with minimal downtime. The tool assesses, migrates and validates the data using efficient data transfer technology, also it provides ongoing monitoring and assessment of your migration.

Azure Cloud Migration Services can help you move your on-premises workloads and data to Azure with minimal downtime and minimal risk. Azure DevOps Migration Service can help you move your source code, work items and other artifacts to Azure DevOps. Azure also offers a wide range of other tools and services that can be used to support your cloud project, such as Azure App Service, Azure Virtual Machines, and Azure Storage.

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Re-Architect

This methodology requires the most effort to implement but it results in the most optimised recurring cost and will provide the best scalability for apps. This involves re-adapting the code of applications and the heavy use of SAAS solutions in order to replace existing hosted applications.

Re-Platform

This method utilizes the power of  PAAS services, like transferring a database to an as-a-service model,  the use of containers for some apps or the use of network/security functions as a service. Greater scalability and lower cost of operation is achieved.

Re-Host (Lift & Shift)

the migration of workloads from  to the cloud without changing the architecture. Machines get to keep their  OS and apps. This is the quickest and easy way to migrate, but since its  utilising IAAS, its is also the most expensive on the long term.