Azure Database Modernization Assessment

Corporate leaders frequently push their IT teams to drive innovation forward, enhance performance, and cut costs. Transitioning to Microsoft® Azure® stands out as a strategic move to fulfill these objectives. The move to Azure brings a host of advantages like cost savings, effortless scalability, and reduced downtime risks. However, IT departments may not always have access to expert engineers skilled in designing a cloud database framework that aligns with company goals. Furthermore, initiatives for data modernization can face roadblocks due to unforeseen costs, data security and compliance issues, unexpected events, or additional demands not factored into the initial plan.

Rackspace Technology Database Modernization Assessment on Azure is designed to address these hurdles, paving the way for you to meet your cloud ambitions. Our specialists in data modernization can craft a bespoke strategy for your legacy database migration and modernization on Azure, beginning with a thorough Database Modernization Assessment. This assessment will consider your current position in the data modernization journey and your targeted destination. We'll provide you with a tailored proposal and outline the recommended next steps to take.

• Moving to managed services
• Database transformation
• Polyglot persistence

Provide an overview of Azure solutions. These can include services: Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Analysis Services, Data Factory, Azure Synapse Spark

• Interviews: Stakeholder meetings to understand your current and desired future state for databases and applications.
• Analysis: Automated schema and database infrastructure and performance analysis.
• Review: Including database licensing and costs, tools and processes, application dependencies and security inspection.
• Recommendation report: Addresses target database[s] based on report analysis and requirements for sizing, performance and scalability.
• Identify and document: Includes application dependencies, application-level code update plan (if applicable) and level of effort for database migration.

A customized pricing estimate is included in the consultative process and will be calculated based the scope of services, billed monthly