Azure Migration Services 

Simplify and expedite your Azure cloud migration while reducing costs with Azure native services.

Adastra Named 2024 Data & AI Americas Partner of the Year

Adastra is proud to have won our 11th Impact Award this year—the Azure Data & AI 2024 Microsoft Americas Partner of the Year Award! We were also recognized as a finalist for three awards: Analytics Partner of the Year (Global), Business Applications (Americas), and Azure Infrastructure and App Innovation (Americas).

When to consider Azure Migration

Companies face many challenges when they start a new project using their on-premises environment. The setup requires an upfront capital investment as on-premises software requires that the enterprise purchases a license or a copy of the software to use it.

As your projects evolve, tasks become more complex and consume more resources. To keep up with the pace of change, your organization needs to handle these new workloads by constantly upgrading the on-premises infrastructure, which is often an expensive and time-consuming approach. The downside of on-premises environments is that costs associated with managing and maintaining all the solution entails can run exponentially high.

Why Embrace Azure Migration?

Migrating workloads to Azure can provide businesses with a more flexible, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure, along with enhanced security and integration capabilities.

Scalability 

Azure allows for easy scaling of resources, which is crucial for businesses that experience fluctuations in demand for their services or products.

Flexibility

Azure offers a wide range of services and tools that can be tailored to meet specific business needs. These include services for compute, storage, networking, analytics, and more.

Security

Azure has built-in security features that help protect data and applications from cyber threats. These features include multi-factor authentication, role-based access control, and threat intelligence.

Cost-Effectiveness 

Azure offers a range of pricing options, including pay-as-you-go, which can help businesses reduce costs by only paying for the resources they need.

Hybrid Capabilities

Azure offers hybrid cloud capabilities, which allow organizations to integrate their existing on-premises infrastructure with Azure services, providing a consistent platform for managing both on-premises and cloud resources.

Microsoft Integration Capabilities

Azure is part of the Microsoft ecosystem, which means it integrates seamlessly with other Microsoft products such as Office 365, Dynamics 365, and Power BI.

Azure Migration Approach

  • Assess your existing servers/virtual machines, discover workloads with dependencies and determine wave groups. 
  • Prepare the migration plan, timeline, and cloud expenses. 

  • Choose a suitable landing zone option and cost, based on workloads’ volume, size and complexity.
  • Plan the cloud migration in detail.

  • Build the architecture, ensure high availability, and perform disaster recovery. 
  • Migrate your servers and storage to the Azure cloud. 
  • Install default applications followed by custom business applications then migrate your Active Directory users, groups, and other workloads. 

  • Perform validation of the server/VM workloads after the migration. 
  • Perform end-to end testing of the new Azure cloud environment. 
  • Go-live. 

Azure Migration Success Stories

Adastra’s Azure Migration Mastery

Adastra offers end-to-end services to guarantee the success of your cloud migration and the ability to leverage your data on Azure. Through 50+ implementations, we have developed a set of best practices and accelerators to deliver trusted results faster. As Azure continues to prove its industry leading position in speed, scale, integration, and efficiency, Adastra continues to stand and evolve as an Advanced Microsoft partner for data, analytics, and AI-driven digital transformation on the cloud.

Adastra will help your organization set a migration roadmap and execute a seamless Azure cloud migration execution by offering different migration approaches:

Move to platform as a service (PaaS)

Migrate to Managed Instance (MI) for fully managed database services. Your app always runs on evergreen features, avoiding manual patching, upgrades, and End of Support.​

Move to infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

Migrate your database and servers to Azure VMs.​

Plan Your Azure Migration with an Experienced Partner

We will assess your workloads and define migration waves, target architecture and cost so you move to Azure with fewer surprises.

Azure Migration FAQ

What are the major Azure migration scenarios?

The main scenarios are data center migration, moving applications and data out of your own facilities; application modernization, refactoring apps to use Azure platform services; database migration to managed Azure databases; and hybrid setups that connect on-premises systems with Azure. Adastra assesses your landscape and recommends the right scenario for each workload.

Yes, when workloads are sized and placed correctly. Many organizations start with a lift and shift, and a better question is why each workload should move. Adastra analyzes your workloads, identifies which benefit most from Azure and designs the target environment so performance matches or exceeds what you have today.

Most applications run well in Azure when their design is considered. Performance depends on correct sizing, network setup, storage choices and how the application handles scaling. Adastra reviews each application, fixes blockers before migration and tests performance in Azure, so you know how it will behave before users switch over.

Consider migration when hardware is reaching end of life, data center contracts are up for renewal, you need to scale faster than on-premises allows, or you already rely on Microsoft technologies. Azure offers scalability, flexibility, security and hybrid capabilities, and integrates closely with Microsoft 365, Dynamics and other Microsoft services.

Adastra follows four steps: discovery and analysis of your environment and costs; scope, architecture and sizing, including the landing zone; migration of servers, virtual machines and applications with high availability and disaster recovery in place; and validation and go-live. Each step has clear outputs, so risk and cost stay under control.

Infrastructure as a service keeps your servers and operating systems as they are and is the fastest way to move. Platform as a service replaces them with managed services, which lowers maintenance and often cost, but may need application changes. Adastra recommends the right model per workload and often combines both.

Adastra was named 2024 Data and AI Americas Partner of the Year and brings proven Azure migration experience across industries. We combine assessment, architecture, migration and post-migration support, and we plan for cost and security from the first workload. You get a predictable migration with clear milestones instead of a risky one-off move.