Azure Kickstarter: 7-Week Migration & Modernization

Kickstart your cloud journey with Macaw’s expert services, designed to help you seamlessly migrate and modernize your Windows Server, SQL Server, and other on-premises workloads to Azure. In just seven weeks, we ensure a smooth transition, unlocking the power of the cloud and preparing your infrastructure for the future.

Description

• Kickoff: Define Scope & Ways of Working We work with you to define the project's scope and align on the way of working, setting clear expectations and goals for the migration journey.
• Assessment: Gain Insight into Your Workloads Our team conducts a comprehensive assessment of your current workloads to understand the technical requirements and identify the best migration or modernization strategy.
• Design: Azure Foundation Workshop Participate in a hands-on Azure Foundation Workshop, where we help you design a scalable, secure, and efficient cloud architecture tailored to your business needs.
• Establish Azure Landing Zone We build an Azure Landing Zone, setting up the core infrastructure needed to run your applications in Azure, while adhering to best practices for governance, networking, and security.
• Migrate Your First Workload As a key milestone, we successfully migrate your first critical workload to Azure, ensuring a seamless transition and validating the environment.
• Optimization & Support Post-migration, we provide ongoing optimization and support, ensuring your Azure environment runs efficiently and is ready for future growth, innovation, and AI-driven capabilities.

###Benefits

• AI-Ready Infrastructure: Position your business for the future with an AI-ready cloud environment
• Faster Time to Cloud: Accelerate your cloud journey with a streamlined migration process, completed in just seven weeks.
• High Productivity Environment: Accelerated time to market with fully managed Azure services
• Secure and Scalable: Ensure your infrastructure is built on a secure and scalable foundation, ready to support future workloads.
• Enterprise level technology: resiliency through built-in disaster recovery options at an unmatched price-performance for Windows Server and SQL Server
• Hybrid Friendly: consistent app development and DevOps practice across hybrid environments.

Deliverables

• Environment Assessment: A comprehensive documentation of your current IT stack, including on-premises workloads, infrastructure, and key dependencies. This serves as the foundation for your migration plan.
• Azure Readiness Report: A detailed report identifying integration dependencies, potential optimization areas, and key risks or blockers that could impact the migration process.
• TCO Analysis: Macaw provides clear insights into the financial and operational benefits of the migration.
• Azure Landing Zone Architecture: A fully developed Azure architecture designed to support scalability, security, and governance.
• Migration Strategy and Roadmap: An outline of the chosen migration methods, timeline and expected velocity. This includes cost estimations, cut-over options, and any necessary tools or processes to ensure a smooth migration.
• Optimization Recommendations: Post-migration recommendations for optimizing performance, cost efficiency, and future scalability. This ensures that your Azure environment is not only functional but continuously improving. Macaw offers comprehensive Managed Services or the build-up of an internal Cloud Center of Excellence.