Azure Migration: 5-Week Assessment

A five-week assessment that provides visibility into application dependencies, the cost to migrate as well as the ongoing cost of your newly optimized Azure environment, and an actionable migration wave plan to take the guess work out of moving from your current environment into Microsoft Azure.

TierPoint’s Azure Migration 5-week Assessment gathers the information needed to thoroughly evaluate cloud readiness, validate cloud capacity requirements, and build a transition strategy based on application stacks, server utilization and system interdependencies.

Our experienced Azure architects work with you to develop a plan which includes migration approach, tool selection, and procedures that remove as much risk as possible prior to live migration cutover - ensuring you can transition to Microsoft Azure as smoothly as possible and avoid unplanned interruptions to your business.

Azure Migration 5-Week Assessment:

Objectives:

• Understand and establish workload priority and timing for migration
• Identification of migration waves
• Design a seamless transition with minimal downtime
• Leverage an approach that ensures flexibility and the ability to test changes
• Evaluate and determine the proper technologies to leverage for the migration

Analysis:

• Device and workload review
• Workload dependencies
• Current state performance mapped to future state SaaS, PaaS, IaaS platforms
• Review current issues, misconfigurations, instability

Deliverables:

• Automated Device Inventory
• Application Dependency Map
• Remediation Plan
• Workload Optimization Plan
• Migration Wave Plan

Agenda

• Week 1: Initiation, Discovery, and Validation
• Week 2: Application Review and Classification
• Week 3-4: Roadmap Design & Planning
• Week 5: Customer Enablement and Final Review

TierPoint can provide subsequent management and support to ensure performance at the highest levels.