Azure Migration: 8 Weeks Implementation

Reimagine your cloud journey and accelerate cloud adoption. Payoda, in alignment with Cloud Adoption Framework, enables customers to plan, prepare, migrate, govern, and support a variety of cloud workloads.

Our cloud experts achieve this by adopting various strategies such as lift-and-shift, re-factoring, re-platforming, and deploying a Cloud-native and DevOps environment by leveraging a highly automated approach. We collaborate with our customers in an agile way, creating smaller proofs-of-concept, immersive customer experience zones, collaborative pods for ideating and building next-generation solutions with hyperscalers, and future workspaces.

The whole service offering can be divided into three phases. A broader overview of activities underneath each phase is highlighted below.

Phase 1 - Assessment:

• Scope identification and project launch
• High-level architectural design and migration plan
• Migration strategy, risk mitigation (backup, disaster recovery, and compliance), and deployment strategy
• Communication plan & Rollback plan
• Automated Discovery and Creating inventory of workloads & resources
• Creating a Service (Dependency) map, Cost estimations & calculations
• Possible optimizations
• Plan for post-migration monitoring & automation

Phase 2 - Prototyping:

• Identifying select use cases for quick prototyping and validating the migration approach
• Setting up the initial landing zone
• Setting up select Azure Components & Services for Security, High Availability, Monitoring, and Performance as per the scope of Proof-of-concept
• Migrating select workloads (servers, users, databases, services, workstations, assets) as per the scope of the Proof-of-concept and validating the prototype

Phase 3 - Implementation:

• Setting up your target environment.
• Setting up landing zones and Azure Infrastructures
• Implementing a Hybrid approach (On-premises and Azure connectivity) whenever necessary
• Utilizing the Migration Readiness Assessment Tool.
• Migrating workloads per the 5Rs strategy (servers, users, databases, services, workstations, and assets).
• Setting up the required access control and user permissions.
• Testing the migrated workloads; Repeating the validated migration approach for all workloads.
• Decommissioning the on-premises workloads
• Improving existing resources and assets, and executing any cost-saving assessment recommendations.
• Setting up automation for required components.
• Setting up Monitoring for necessary components and services
• Documenting best practices and evolve them further

Key Outcomes:

• ARM Configurations (if applicable)
• Demonstration of Migration & Infrastructure, Performance / High Availability
• Azure infrastructure set up & Landing Zones.
• Documentation of the process and lessons learned / bottlenecks during the process
• Test validation reports
• Migration Report

We can help you increase your scale-based agility and resilience while lowering the risk of mitigating business-critical processes. We make it possible for you to coordinate business difficulties with services made to fit your needs, objectives, and resources.

Please visit https://www.payoda.com/azure-migration/ to learn more.