Azure VMware Solution
We understand that cloud migration is a complex process, you have to think about datacenter changes that are coming up, how to upgrade your applications and workloads, potential effects on operational continuity, and so on. What if there was a simple way to help you transition to the cloud now and continue supporting your business growth goals?
With WWT and Microsoft Azure, you have it. Business can modernize their VMware workloads with native Azure IaaS or PaaS services and leverage many cloud benefits and existing licenses, or they may join the many organizations that discovered the quickest way to the cloud is migrating VMware workloads "as is" with Azure VMware Solution (AVS).
Either option makes use of Azure's management, security, and compliance services. Both options can be used in various combinations across Azure and on-premises workloads – a great option for hybrid cloud management.
AVS Use Cases
Migrating to the cloud is just the beginning. As you start on your journey to the cloud, you can benefit from additional cloud capabilities that yield value in other areas.
Let's look at some of the most popular use cases explored by customers:
Customers are reducing their datacenter footprint with a one-time redeployment of their VMware-based virtual machines. AVS offers the ability to lift and shift vSphere-based workloads to Azure in a nondisruptive, automated, scalable, and highly available way without changing the underlying vSphere hypervisor.
Many organizations take a gradual approach to the cloud, migrating some core systems and applications but also maintaining legacy on-premises infrastructures and applications. Microsoft has orchestrated the Azure VMware Solution with that reality in mind. It's designed to help bring the agility and innovation of the cloud to customers on-premises environments. Azure provides a holistic, seamless, and secure approach that's consistent across an organization's on-premises and cloud resources.
For organizations looking to seamlessly expand or augment their datacenter capacity on-demand for short periods of time, customers have choices based on their needs by relying on the elasticity that Azure offers, and the flexible payment plans that are available.
The VMware stack deployed in Azure can be used as a primary, secondary—or both—on-demand disaster recovery site for on-premises datacenter infrastructure.
Modernize legacy applications to deliver enhanced experiences. Azure also makes it easier to develop new applications, so customers can build, manage, and continuously deliver improved application experiences without the need to refactor existing VMware-based workloads.
With the pace of business continuously accelerating, organizations need to decrease time to market, ensuring new innovations are accessible faster. Azure provides a fully managed platform with robust tools and capabilities to meet application development needs—from migrations to legacy application modernizations to building new cloud native applications, and more—enabling organizations to progress faster.
Navigating VMware's licensing shift
As VMware transitions to a subscription-based model under Broadcom, corporations and organizations face the challenge of adapting to new product bundling frameworks and rising prices. In partnership with Microsoft, WWT offers a comprehensive solution to navigate this change smoothly. Our solutions are committed to helping corporations and organizations embrace transformation, increase efficiency, and maximize their IT investments.
VMware's acquisition: What does it mean for you?
The acquisition of VMware by Broadcom has raised concerns about potential price increases and support challenges, especially for midsize and smaller businesses. Customers worry about increased costs, reduced investment in research and development, and a decline in the quality of support, including longer resolution times and less qualified engineers.
Additionally, the relationship between enterprise organizations and their pre-acquisition VMware teams is uncertain, with many employees laid off and partner programs ending. Gartner advises customers to inventory their VMware products, secure written commitments for enhancements, negotiate exit clauses in new contracts, and explore alternative solutions and migration options.
Accelerate your journey to the cloud
Executives are more focused on security than ever, especially in light of employees working remotely and accessing critical apps outside of traditional domains. By moving workloads to the cloud, you gain a greater level of security through native Azure security services. In addition, for companies that are already relying on Windows Server or Microsoft SQL Server, a move to Azure can enable a significant reduction in CapEx costs by taking advantage of savings available from Microsoft.
Migrate existing assets as-is
Enhance the benefits you derive from the cloud by duplicating your existing IT systems, applications, and workloads directly in Azure, known as a "lift and shift" migration, without the necessity of modifying them in advance.
Reducing your datacenter footprint
Organizations can also leverage Azure's scalability to facilitate the decommissioning of legacy infrastructure after migrating resources to the cloud.
Disaster recovery and business continuity
Deploy VMware resources on Azure for a primary or secondary on-demand recovery site to provide business continuity for your existing on-premises datacenter resources.
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