Workshop on Infrastructure Migration to Azure

Collaborate with Azure-certified experts and receive practical guidance on efficiently moving your databases and workloads to the cloud to overcome challenges like compatibility issues associated with traditional infrastructure and outdated technologies, data security and accuracy, business downtime, IT costs, and scalability.

Overview

Navigating cloud migration comes with its specific challenges, such as over-provisioned idle servers, lengthy procurement cycles, high IT costs, maintaining data integrity, ensuring regulatory compliance, minimizing data operations during migration, etc.

Simform offers businesses in-depth guidance on migrating apps and databases to the Azure environment. We explore best practices and steps tailored to business objectives, pain points, infrastructure, and application landscape. Our recommendations are grounded in the Azure Well-Architected Framework and the Cloud Adoption Framework, ensuring that your cloud environment is efficient, cost-effective, and secure.

The workshop covers MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server migrations, and more. Through this workshop, you will gain practical experience and hands-on strategies for effectively using tools like Azure Migrate and Azure Database Migration Service to assess workloads, execute migrations efficiently, and implement best practices for cloud governance while ensuring cost efficiency.

Workshop Agenda

1. Identifying business goals and migration opportunities

• Discuss your business's long-term and short-term priorities, risks, and infrastructure-specific challenges to get accurate recommendations on which workloads and whether they can be migrated as-is or require refactoring.
• We assist you in identifying and migrating mission-critical databases, expansive data lakes, high-performance data warehouses, intricate ETL pipelines, and sophisticated AI/ML workloads.

2. Resolving migration challenges

• Identify and resolve common migration issues using Azure built-in validation tools, such as Azure DevOps Test Plans. We help you validate data consistency, verify application functionality, and optimize performance.
• We also evaluate the total cost of ownership (TCO), identify key stakeholders, and address businesses' concerns surrounding feasibility, security, and reliability to ensure successful cloud migration.

3. Migration testing and validation

• Master database migration techniques using Azure DMS in a controlled environment. We assist you in executing simulated application migrations while learning to validate outcomes using Azure DevOps Test Plans, monitor application performance with Application Insights, and conduct comprehensive load testing using Azure Load Testing to ensure successful production deployments.

4. Migration planning and roadmap

• Avail complete guidance on Azure services and migration strategies (rehost, replatform, etc.) suited to your workloads and databases to effectively plan and implement cloud migration. We prepare a detailed roadmap outlining steps, timelines, resources, delivery methods, and compliance challenges.

Key Deliverables

1. Comprehensive analysis of your current infrastructure, including workload and database prioritization and migration readiness.

2. A tailored project plan, including the total cost of ownership when moving your workloads to Azure.

3. Guidance on implementing Azure’s security features (Azure Security Center) to ensure regulatory compliance during migration.

4. Recommended tools and services like Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery, and Database Migration Service for efficient migration.