{"id":22657,"date":"2025-02-10T13:30:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T13:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sifytechnologies.com\/europe\/?p=22657"},"modified":"2025-02-10T13:30:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T13:30:28","slug":"how-to-migrate-to-microsoft-azure-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sifytechnologies.com\/europe\/blog\/how-to-migrate-to-microsoft-azure-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Migrate to Microsoft Azure Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sify has extensive experience with Azure Cloud migrations, leveraging its partnership with Microsoft since 2014. With over 400 major client installations, we’ve refined our in-house Cloud practice, building a robust knowledge base of skills and competencies.<\/p>\n

With a comprehensive range of Microsoft Azure Infrastructure services and significant investment in our people, data workload migrations have become an area of expertise for Sify. Specifically, for Microsoft installations, over 85% of our migration projects have involved moving data from legacy systems to Azure.<\/p>\n

Read on as we share the details of Azure migrations, leveraging our vast experience and expertise to guide your migration strategy.<\/p>\n

Sify\u2019s Cloud Migration Strategy<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Sify utilises our proven ‘Go-To-Cloud’ framework to ensure a smooth and successful transition. it assists in developing and executing business and technology strategies aligned with the desired outcomes.<\/p>\n

The key phases for the framework are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Define<\/strong> – a workgroup to clarify the business justification and expected outcomes.<\/li>\n
  2. Plan<\/strong> – an actionable adoption plan detailing each migration phase.<\/li>\n
  3. Ready<\/strong> – create the necessary infrastructure.<\/li>\n
  4. Adopt<\/strong> – migrate each application then test, optimise, and release.<\/li>\n
  5. Manage<\/strong> – define and implement frameworks and tools to control cloud usage.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Azure Tools for Planning and Migration<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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    1. Azure Migrate<\/strong>\n

      Microsoft\u2019s flagship migration tool provides comprehensive solutions for assessing and migrating workloads. It is used for both Discovery and Assessment and Server Migration.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    2. Azure Database Migration Service<\/strong>\n

      This service simplifies the migration of databases from on-premises or other cloud platforms to Azure\u2019s database offerings, such as Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance and Azure Cosmos DB.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    3. Azure Data Box<\/strong>\n

      Azure Data Box provides a hardware-based solution for transferring large volumes of data offline to Azure, especially when network-based transfer is impractical or costly. This is suitable for scenarios involving extensive data sets, such as archival or media files.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    4. Azure Site Recovery (ASR)<\/strong>\n

      Primarily designed for disaster recovery; ASR can facilitate migration by replicating workloads to Azure. Features include replicating on-premises applications and data to Azure, supporting planned failover for migration with minimal downtime and offering a robust approach for legacy applications.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Pre-Migration Assessment<\/h2>\n

      Sify assesses your applications using our standard methodology, incorporating best practices and industry standards. Each application in scope will undergo a detailed discovery process, and relevant changes will be recommended based on the mapped migration group application.<\/p>\n

      Data Synchronisation<\/h2>\n

      Sify employs a tried and tested methodology to ensure data synchronisation with no or minimal data loss.
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      Testing Applications Pre-and Post-Migration<\/h2>\n

      Sify conducts key testing procedures essential for validating the functionality, integration, performance, and security of migrated applications.
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      Key Phases:<\/strong><\/h2>\n