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Partner POV | Azure VMware Solution lets you take your existing skills to the cloud

Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is the simplest and fastest way to accelerate your cloud journey—and you can continue managing your IT environment with the same VMware tools you already know. Offers greater security and positions your business for advanced cloud capabilities like AI.

In this article

  1. Move to the cloud on your terms: Start with Azure VMware Solution
  2. Get built-in speed, scale, and security with a modern infrastructure
  3. Access innovative services to evolve apps over time
  4. Protect your pricing

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 Move to the cloud on your terms: Start with Azure VMware Solution

 

 Get built-in speed, scale, and security with a modern infrastructure

Now you can benefit from cloud services much sooner—without refactoring. Plus, you can take advantage of the scalable cloud infrastructure of AVS with options. While also gaining a greater level of security through native Azure security services. The result is a modern infrastructure designed to grow with your business.

  • Get started quickly: Use familiar skills and tools to quickly migrate or extend VMware workloads to the cloud with AVS and Azure Arc-enabled VMware vSphere.
  • Reduce pricing risk of older on-premises workloads: Running your VMware workloads in Azure helps you reduce on-premises management and mitigate potential pricing increases. You'll also benefit from greater security in Azure along with the ability to choose from a variety of connectivity options, including Azure ExpressRoute to encrypt your data.
  • Continue using the tools you're familiar with: You can keep using the VMware functionality you're used to, like VMware VDI services. And if you want to move the back-end VDI into the cloud, simply use Azure Virtual Desktop for distributed datacenters, powerful hardware, world-class security, and fast networking.
  • Free security updates for Windows Server: If you're one of the many businesses running Windows Server in VMware, you can bring your existing licenses to Azure and get free security updates for older Windows Server workloads.

 Access innovative services to evolve apps over time

When you use VMware on AVS, you can transform and modernize on your terms. With AVS, you'll be able to lay the foundation for your development teams to build new cloud-based applications or modernize existing resources to align with your digital strategies.

Position your business for more advanced use of the cloud

If you're like most businesses, you're probably actively exploring advanced AI and machine learning. Moving VMware to AVS is a great foundation for advancing cloud projects because you can reduce latency in the cloud, unify disparate systems, and mitigate the high costs of on-premises hardware.

Reduce the cost of AI solutions

With Azure, you don't need to build out AI on your own. It provides the robust infrastructure, machine learning services, and data analytics capabilities to accelerate your AI initiatives, develop intelligent applications, and gain valuable insights from your data.

Disaster recovery and business continuity

You can also deploy VMware resources on AVS for a primary or secondary on-demand recovery site to provide business continuity for your existing on-premises datacenter resources.

 Protect your pricing

Worried about what might happen to your on-premises VMware licensing? Don't be. When you move to AVS, you'll get all your licenses as a managed service from Microsoft. You can even lock in pricing and discounts for multiple years. 

As you look to the cloud to turn your vision into impact, finding ease and simplicity may initially seem challenging. Running VMware in AVS is a great way to lock in your pricing while seamlessly shifting to the cloud. 

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