Database Modernization: 4-Week Assessment

The Database Modernization Assessment by Rackspace Technology Database is a transformative service that empowers organizations to harness the full potential of their data infrastructure. By migrating and upgrading legacy databases to Azure's cutting-edge cloud platform, businesses can unlock a multitude of benefits including improved performance, scalability, and reliability enable seamless handling of growing data volumes and user demands.  

Database modernization on Azure presents an unparalleled opportunity for businesses to future-proof their data infrastructure and stay competitive in the dynamic digital landscape. In the session we’ll cover moving to managed services, database transformation and polygot persistence.  We’ll help you modernize using Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance or SQL server on Azure VMs.  

The engagement has two sessions discovery and migration plan: 

Discovery:  

• 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. 

Migration Plan: 

• 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.