Azure Arc: 4-Week Deployment

Azure Arc is a bridge that extends the Azure platform to help you build applications and services with the flexibility to run across data centers, at the edge, and in multi-cloud environments. It provides a consistent development, operations, and security model for your hybrid resources. Azure Arc enables you to create and/or manage servers, Kubernetes clusters, VMware vSphere, SQL servers, Azure Stack HCI, and even Windows and Linux virtual machines that are hosted outside of Azure. This centralized hub makes governance over your environment and application management easier than ever.

RSM's Azure Arc deployment is a solution that helps you to modernize the management of your applications and data across your hybrid environment. With this deployment, you can:

• Roll out cloud-native applications on any Kubernetes platform with Azure App Service, Functions, Logic Apps, and Event Grid on Kubernetes.
• Run Azure data services including SQL Managed Instance and PostgreSQL on any Kubernetes cluster with Azure Arc-enabled data services.
• Facilitate Microsoft Extended Security Updates (ESUs) for Windows 2012.
• Use Azure Machine Learning to train models on any Kubernetes cluster with the managed machine learning add-on.
• Secure and govern your hybrid resources with Azure Security Center, Azure Policy, and Azure Monitor.
• Optimize costs with Azure Hybrid Benefit and Extended Security Updates for Windows Server and SQL Server.

RSM’s Azure services are delivered based on a wealth of delivery experiences and lessons learned from hundreds of previous client engagements, while being guided by our well-defined and proven delivery process that encompasses the following five (5) phases:

• Phase 1: Discover & Assess: This phase ensures there is a common understanding of the current IT environment in scope, while addressing any gaps and open questions, and allowing for better prioritization, planning, and high-level road-mapping of the cloud migration. This phase may entail examining data about system and application inventories, interdependencies, categorization, classification, usage, configuration, performance, and other elements related to the physical and virtual environments that are in scope for the journey.
• Phase 2: Plan & Roadmap: In this phase, the team finalizes the roadmap and project plan as it relates to aspects such as workload placements, application dispositions, move-groups, test plans, go-live logistics, and contingency planning. The core goal of this phase is to mobilize the project delivery team while establishing execution plans and high-level roadmaps to avoid pitfalls and ensure efficiency during the journey.
• Phase 3: Design & Architect: In this phase, design ideas are presented, and agreements are established regarding the design decisions and rationales, along with references architects, landing zones, and design diagram. Likewise, this phase leverages cloud design principles and well-architected framework to ensure the design leading practices are in place.
• Phase 4: Implement & Validate: In this phase, design components are developed into actual applications, workloads, services, platforms, and other cloud resources. Workloads and applications are migrated and validated in the cloud based on their respective design decisions from Phase 3.
• Phase 5: Transition & Closeout: This phase determines how and by whom the implemented and validated cloud environment will be operated and evolved on a continuous basis. During this phase, several knowledge transfer, transition, and closeout activities may occur, including system learning, job shadowing, reverse job shadowing, runbook, or as-built document development, and decommissioning of unwanted assets.

This delivery process ensures our clients’ applications and data realize a smooth journey onto the Azure Arc platform, offering the greatest attributes of resiliency, scalability, cost-optimization, security, governance, and operational-excellence. Innovate anywhere with Azure by leveraging RSM's Azure Arc deployment solution.

RSM’s insights and portfolio of services reflect more than 30 years of technology consulting, implementation, and monitoring experience. We work hard to understand your specific technology needs and provide the services to help you develop a customized, cost-effective solution.

*Pricing will vary based on scope and available Microsoft funding.

*Duration will vary based on scope.