Cloud adoption is accelerating, and organisations are considering the cloud for their IT needs for a number of different reasons. These include security threats, software or hardware refreshes, resource constraints and end-of-life support. Whatever the reason, the cloud provides an on-demand, scalable infrastructure, better total ownership costs, and flexibility that encourages innovation.
Azure VMware Solution (AVS) lets you seamlessly move VMware workloads from your data centre to Azure and integrate additional Azure services with ease – all while continuing to manage your IT environments with the same VMware tools you already know.
Azure VMware Solution Overview
Azure VMware Solution is a fully verified and supported service from Microsoft Azure that allows you to redeploy, extend and run native VMware environments at scale in the cloud. Key points about AVS include the following:
Consistent VMware Infrastructure
Symmetry with On-Premises Environments
The service offers symmetry with on-premises environments, which accelerates data centre migrations. This means you can recognise the benefits of the cloud sooner when migrating existing VMware Private Clouds to Azure.
Fully Managed Service
Key Benefits of AVS
Azure VMware Solution gives you and your team the ticket to accelerate your VMware cloud migration, enabling you to continue to pursue your evolving business priorities. With platform symmetry between on-prem and Azure, as well as the ability to retain your familiar VMware environment and investment in people skills, there’s a direct route to migration, on your terms, at whatever speed fits your operational model.
Key benefits of AVS include the following:
- Seamless Integration with Azure: AVS allows organisations to leverage Azure’s power while maintaining compatibility with their VMware investments. It bridges on-premises and cloud environments, enabling seamless workload migration and hybrid scenarios.
- Familiar VMware Environment: IT teams can continue using familiar VMware tools, processes, and skills. No retraining is needed, accelerating adoption.
- Highly Available Infrastructure: AVS runs on Azure’s globally distributed infrastructure, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery capabilities.
- Scalability and Elasticity: AVS dynamically scales compute, storage, and networking resources to meet changing business demands.
- Cost Optimisation: Azure’s pay-as-you-go pricing model eliminates upfront hardware costs, aligning expenses with actual usage.
- Security and Compliance: AVS benefits from Azure’s robust security features, enhancing posture and meeting compliance requirements.
- Hybrid Cloud Scenarios: Extend on-premises VMware environments to Azure for burst capacity, disaster recovery, or dev/test purposes.
Are You Ready to Make the Move to the Cloud?
Every organisation is at a different place in its migration and modernisation journey. Previously, cloud adoption might have signalled an investment to fuel business growth. Now, more organisations are taking advantage of the cloud’s cost, capacity and savings benefits to make it easier for employees to work remotely, or to shift critical applications to the cloud to ensure business continuity.
While many business leaders want to take advantage of some of the more advanced uses of the cloud, like AI or machine learning apps, the reality is that they must still undertake some foundational work before advancing cloud projects. Companies still rely on apps and workloads running in data centres, and plenty of these legacy apps are essential to business.
In some cases, it may not be financially viable for a business to modernise these apps, even if it could benefit from the scale and flexibility of a cloud model. Companies have spent years investing in these technologies and the skillsets required to operate and manage them. Just ’moving everything to the cloud’ is not as simple as pressing a button. Or is it?
With the Azure VMware solution, it can be. You can free up your teams to work on higher-value projects while Azure handles ongoing patching, provisioning and maintaining your solution environment.
Executives are more focused on security than ever, especially in light of employees working remotely and accessing critical apps outside 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.
Moving Forward
Together, Braintree and Microsoft are helping organisations to get more value from their technology assets while paving a path to digital transformation.
As you look to the cloud to turn your vision into impact, finding ease and simplicity may initially seem challenging. There are various routes to the cloud – we can help you with a solution that will enable you to accelerate your cloud migration at your own pace.
Contact us for more information .
