Simplifying Cloud Migration and Modernization Journey with Microsoft Azure

Simplifying cloud migration
and modernization journey
with Microsoft Azure

Table of contents
03 / Introduction
04 / Cloud benefits
05 / What’s possible
07 / Common use cases
08 / Getting started
09 / Industry focus

INTRODUCTION CLOUD BENEFITS WHAT’S POSSIBLE USE CASES GETTING STARTED INDUSTRY FOCUS
Introduction
Digital transformation is a driving force in
business. No matter the industry,
organizations continue to accelerate digital
initiatives to advance their business and
gain a competitive edge. That focus is more
important than ever today as the world
begins to move beyond the global
pandemic into a new post - Covid reality.
The cloud has been vital in helping
organizations adapt to changes in the
business landscape and evolving customer
demands. While early digitization strategies
focused on understanding where and how
the cloud could benefit the business, those
views have shifted and become more
encompassing. Organizations today see
cloud as a critical part of their overall
technology portfolio, whether that means
a hybrid environment or going “all in” on
the cloud.
Cloud has become an important tool for
addressing top business priorities in the
post-pandemic landscape and to help
organizations move faster, be more
resilient and adaptable to change, and
strengthen security postures. And yet,
while organizations recognize the value and
power of the cloud, getting started
migrating to the cloud and modernizing
resources can feel challenging.
At Microsoft, we’re committed to
simplifying your cloud migration and
modernization experience so you can
deliver value to your organization faster.
Join us as we share insights on how you
can make progress on migration and
modernization initiatives, plus best
practices for getting started with Microsoft
Azure.
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Enterprises
are accelerating
digital
transformation
72%
of organizations reported their industry’s
pace of transformation has been
accelerating as a result of the pandemic.1
80%
of enterprises will have the mechanism in
place by the end of 2021 to shift to cloud-
centric infrastructure and applications,
twice as fast as before the pandemic.2
1. “The transformation imperative: Digital drivers in the Covid-19 pandemic, 2021.” The Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Microsoft.
2. FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2021 Predictions, IDC.
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The business benefits of cloud
The inherent properties of cloud, including elasticity, high availability, security, scalability, and
more, open a multitude of benefits for organizations. These benefits offer you ways to create
significant business advantages while accelerating digital transformation initiatives.
Customers that adopt Microsoft Azure can improve:
Security
Providing greater protection
across your cloud and on-
premises environments with
security and threat
detection services.
Time to market
Making it easier to innovate
and bring new products,
services, or enhancements
to your customers at an
accelerated pace.
Business insights
Providing a path to unify
disparate data sources and
bring a richer understanding
of your customers, products,
and services through data
insights and analytics.
Scalability
Enabling you to meet surges
in customer demand as
needed, without straining
your operations teams,
infrastructure, or budgets.
Resiliency
Helping you with disaster
recovery and other backup
strategies so you can ensure
greater business continuity.
Cloud at your pace
Making it possible to
migrate at your own
pace with solutions that
simplify management
and governance of
cloud and on-premises
IT estates.
Modernization
Uncovering efficiencies and
helping to attract and retain
customers and employees
with modern apps and
infrastructure.
Sustainability
Providing insights and reporting
on your IT carbon emissions so
you can more effectively make
progress on your organization’s
sustainability goals.
Costs
By shifting from a legacy
capital expenditure model
to a more flexible
operational expenditure
model, reduce costs, paying
only for the resources and
services you consume.
Cost and operational efficiencies with Microsoft Azure
Up to 25% increase in productivity of IT staff.3
$10M savings from avoided on-premises
infrastructure and staff costs.4
478% three-year return on investment.4
Up to 80% savings with Azure Hybrid Benefit.3
3. Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ Study: Migration to Microsoft Azure SQL Managed Databases, commissioned by Microsoft, March 2020.
4. Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ Study: Microsoft Azure IaaS, commissioned by Microsoft, October 2019.

Value of cloud migrations and modernization
Making progress on your digital goals with Microsoft Azure starts with a migration and
modernization journey. The two initiatives are closely related yet bring different
advantages for you to consider.
Migrations involve moving applications, infrastructure, and data from your private, on-
premises datacenter to the public or hybrid cloud. Migrations give you the foundation for
an elastic, scalable, and secure infrastructure.
A cloud migration will help you start to realize several important benefits. For example,
your organization may experience lower IT costs by rightsizing capacity, so you are only
spending on the compute and storage resources that you use. When you need greater
capacity, you can easily scale up usage, giving you a more flexible approach. You’ll also be
able to strengthen your overall security posture through Azure’s comprehensive security
controls, and benefit from Microsoft’s $1 billion annual investment in securing its cloud
environments.
Modernization initiatives, on the other hand, involve updating existing or legacy
applications to incorporate newer computing approaches, such as modern application
frameworks or cloud-native technologies. Modernization allows you to innovate existing
applications to provide better user experiences, greater business agility, and cost
efficiencies. By adopting modern frameworks and technologies, you enable greater
developer velocity, making it easier for your people to create, test, and launch new
innovations.
Often, modernization projects build on migration to the cloud. For example, moving data to
the cloud opens the door to gaining more value from the integration across your data and
applications. Once your data is in the cloud, you can extend your cloud infrastructure
foundation to apply more advanced analytics, or even integrate AI/ML approaches to
glean richer and predictive insights from your data estate.
>95% of Fortune 500 use
Microsoft Azure

Turn your data into a strategic asset
When your data is in the cloud, you have the opportunity to turn it into one of your most
strategic assets. Studies have shown that organizations that embrace the value of data fare
better in adjusting to rapid market changes: they are able to be more agile, anticipate and
predict change, and pivot as needed to better serve customers.
Yet for many organizations, extracting more value from data has not been easy. The
volume, variety, and velocity of data are all accelerating, making it challenging to get a
holistic view of data estates. That complexity makes it difficult to answer fundamental
questions, like:
• What data do I have? Is it trustworthy?
• Are we managing all this data in a compliant way?
• Are people getting the data they need to make the right decisions?
• Are they getting this data fast enough?
A cloud-based approach to data can help you answer these questions by unifying and
connecting all your data assets. You’ll be able to scale and accelerate your approach to
data so that you can harness and analyze a constant stream of data, applying analytics
and AI to glean rich insights and drive better decisions.
In essence, you’ll create a positive digital feedback loop where you’ll be able to drive
greater transformation to improve customer experiences, transform products and
services based on signals from users, empower employees to be more productive, and
more.
Data-driven transformations yield significant benefits
54% increase in revenue performance.
44% faster time to market.
62% improvement in customer satisfaction.
54% increased profit results.
Source: Harvard Business Review, “How to lead a data-driven digital transformation,” May, 2020.

Successful migration and modernization use cases
Migrating to the cloud is just the beginning. As you begin your journey to the cloud, you
can take advantage of additional cloud capabilities that yield value in other areas.
Let’s look at some of the most popular use cases explored by our customers.
Legacy system modernization
Create a strong infrastructure foundation by
moving legacy infrastructure to Azure. You’ll be
able to take advantage of Azure services that
help boost performance and increase
operational efficiencies for your organization.
Accelerate innovation
With the pace of business continuously
accelerating, organizations need to decrease
time to market, ensuring new innovations are
accessible to customers faster. Azure provides
a fully managed platform with robust tools and
capabilities to meet your application
development needs—from migrations to legacy
application modernizations to building new
cloud-native applications, and more—so your
people can make progress faster.
Security and compliance
With security a top priority for business and
technology leaders, organizations are looking
to the cloud for all the ways it can help in
protecting valuable data, apps, and infrastructure.
Azure offers a secure cloud foundation with
multilayered, built-in security controls and
unique threat intelligence to help your security
teams identify and protect against evolving
threats.
Data estate modernization
Many organizations today struggle to gain
additional value from the large and distributed
data estates within the business. Azure’s data and
analytics services provide a path to unify that
data in the cloud and make it easier to gather,
store, process, analyze, and visualize your data to
gain better and more actionable insights for your
organization.
Application modernization
Modernize legacy applications to deliver enhanced
experiences to your customers and employees.
Azure also makes it easier to develop new
applications, so you can build, manage, and
continuously deliver improved application
experiences.
Support hybrid IT estates
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 built Azure with that reality in mind:
it’s designed to help you bring the agility and
innovation of the cloud to your on-premises
environments. Azure provides a holistic, seamless,
and secure approach that’s consistent across your
on-premises and cloud resources.
82% of enterprises have a
hybrid cloud strategy.5
92% of enterprises have a
multicloud strategy .5
Key drivers
• Legacy systems/custom
requirements
• Regulations and data
sovereignty
• Latency and technical
hurdles
• Consequence of no
proactive strategy
5. Flexera Blog: Cloud Computing Trends: 2021 State of the Cloud Report.

Flexible ways to get started
When approaching either a migration or
modernization initiative, Azure provides
flexible options for getting started. You can
opt to handle the migration on its own or
alongside modernization goals, depending
on your organization's needs.
Focusing on the migration first provides the
benefit of letting you reduce your
datacenter footprint quickly. You realize
more immediate cost savings as a result.
And this approach allows more time for
testing and optimizing applications to
ensure cloud readiness.
Adding modernization workstreams while
you are migrating helps you decrease your
time to market. Rather than the most rapid
cost savings, you’ll be focusing more on
unlocking application innovations that
deliver richer user experiences and
enhance productivity. At the same time,
you’ll have the opportunity to accelerate
the velocity of application development.
Your approach doesn’t have to be all one
way or the other. You have flexibility to
choose to directly migrate some systems
and apps, while other systems and apps
might benefit more from a modernization
effort.
Even more importantly, you don’t have to
migrate everything at once. Azure gives you the
flexibility to migrate at your pace, supporting
you with hybrid solutions that make managing
and governing cloud and
on-premises assets easier and enabling
consistent experiences across both domains.
Performing a Cloud Readiness Assessment can
help you select your path forward, determine
the effort required to migrate or modernize,
and gauge the timing that would be most
beneficial for your organization.
Migration and modernization considerations
What’s the immediate business need?
• Optimizing costs
• Shifting from CapEx to OpEx
• Realizing cloud benefits quickly
How hard is it to do?
• Complexity
• Level of skilling or retraining
needed, or new staff required
• Cost and resources needed to
refactor or rebuild
Longer-term business goals?
• Time to market
• App innovation
• Productivity
• Application development velocity

Solving today’s top industry challenges with cloud
Beyond the most common use cases, organizations across all industries are using cloud to
not only advance their digital transformation strategies, but also solve industry-specific
challenges. Explore these industry snapshots of what’s possible by moving to the cloud.
Retail
Digital transformation is a top priority for retailers
to support evolving buyer patterns, from the
increased interest in contactless shopping and
curbside pickup, to greater demand for more
personalized digital experiences.
The cloud is helping retailers transform so they can:
• Reimagine the retail experience
• Build more resilient supply chains
• Know their customers better
The Albertsons family of brands gains agility and
scalability at lower cost to support an increase in
digital sales by migrating to Azure.6
Manufacturing
Manufacturers are turning to the cloud to help them
become more agile, innovative, and competitive in
their markets. Integrated technology is vital to
helping attract the next generation of employees
and building next-gen factories that are automated,
efficient, and resilient.
Cloud is helping manufacturers to:
• Create more agile factories
• Increase supply chain resiliency
• Unlock innovation and deliver new services
Outokumpu, a Finnish manufacturer, uses Azure to
increase output by 10-15 percent, while reducing
quality defects by up to 40 percent.7
Financial services
Within Financial Services, increasing and evolving
regulations, as well as rising cyber and financial
crime, make compliance and security top
priorities. Also important are increasing agility,
modernizing aging systems, and delivering richer
digital experiences to customers.
Financial services firms look to cloud to:
• Deliver differentiated customer experiences
• Modernize core banking and payments
• Manage risk across the organization
• Protect against financial crime
Dutch-based ABN AMRO unlocks data insights for
better decision-making with an Azure-based data
mesh solution.8
Healthcare
The pandemic has accelerated several trends
within the Healthcare industry, from the rise in
virtual healthcare to the need to protect
sensitive data from cybercrime while at the
same time making data more accessible to
providers and patients.
Healthcare organizations are using cloud to:
• Enhance patient engagement
• Improve clinical and operational insights
• Protect health information.
New South Wales Health Pathology modernizes
health diagnostics with an Azure-based, large-scale
digital health platform.9
6. Albertsons Companies case study: Albertsons and Microsoft partner on cloud adoption to enable digital transformation.
7. Outokumpu case study: Microsoft Customer Story-Outokumpu: A sustainable stainless steel giant with a data-driven mindset.
8. ABN AMRO case study: ABN AMRO embraces an Azure-first data strategy to drive better business decisions.
9. NSW Health Pathology case study: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1384019799287777382-nsw-government-health-provider-azure

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Visit the Azure Migration and
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