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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.
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. Those include:
- Azure Migrate: A tool that helps assess, plan, and migrate on-premises workloads to Azure.
- Azure Site Recovery: A disaster recovery and business continuity solution that can help ensure your applications and data are always available.
- Azure Data Migration Service: A tool that helps to efficiently migrate on-premises and cloud data to Azure using best practices.
- Azure Arc: A service that allows organizations to manage resources on-premises and in other clouds as if they were in Azure.
- Azure Stack: An extension of Azure that allows organizations to run Azure services on-premises.
The Importance of migrating 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.
- Azure offers a wide variety of compliance standards and regulations in addition to several security features, such as Azure Security Center and Azure Key Vault, that help protect your data and applications.
- Migrating to Azure Cloud allows you to use the platform’s global reach, as well as its disaster recovery and business continuity solutions, that ensure the availability of your data and applications.
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
Here are 6 of the many advantages of migrating to Azure Cloud:
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.
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, that can be overcome with the right approach.
- Migrating large and complex workloads.. This can be overcome using services such as Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery, which provide best practices, tools, and guidance to help you assess, plan and execute your migration.
- Potential for data loss or disruption during the migration process. Azure Cloud Migration tools prevent this by providing minimal downtime migration, ensuring no loss or disruption of data takes place.
- Security and compliance of the platform. Azure offers many security features. However, it is essential to ensure that your organization’s security and compliance needs are met pre and post migration.
- Cost of migrating and operating on Azure. Azure provides several tools and services to help businesses manage and optimize their cloud spend. Still, assessing the long-term costs of running your workloads on Azure versus on-premises or other cloud platforms is crucial.
Microsoft Azure Migration Services by Exeo
At Exeo, we offer a wide range of services to help organizations migrate to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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 clients’ 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.
Our Proposition With 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 into the service edge on the other
Azure SecOps
Monitoring, detecting and responding to threats on users, 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 Migration services?
Expertise and Experience
Exeo’s team of experts has the knowledge and experience necessary to help organizations 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 as well as Azure Site Recovery (ASR).
Azure Data Migration Service is a tool that performs migration of on-premises and cloud data to Azure. It supports various data sources such as SQL Server, MySQL and MongoDB, allowing migration with minimal downtime. The tool assesses, migrates and validates data using efficient data transfer technology, while providing 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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