Demystifying Azure Migrations – Part 9 (Assess): Azure Site Recovery (ASR) Deployment Planner Tool

In the introduction to this series, we identified that there are multiple parts of the cloud migration journey; namely: Discover, Assess, Migrate, Manage, and Operate. We will cover various tools that either falls into one of or span multiple phases in the migration journey. As a quick-link reference, here is the list of tools this…

Demystifying Azure Migrations – Part 8 (Assess): Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine Readiness Assessment

In the introduction to this series, we identified that there are multiple parts of the cloud migration journey; namely: Discover, Assess, Migrate, Manage, and Operate. We will cover various tools that either falls into one of or span multiple phases in the migration journey. As a quick-link reference, here is the list of tools this…

Demystifying Azure Migrations – Part 7 (Assess): Azure Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

In the introduction to this series, we identified that there are multiple parts of the cloud migration journey; namely: Discover, Assess, Migrate, Manage, and Operate. We will cover various tools that either falls into one of or span multiple phases in the migration journey. As a quick-link reference, here is the list of tools this…

Demystifying Azure Migrations – Part 6 (Assess): Microsoft Azure Cost Estimator Tool

In the introduction to this series, we identified that there are multiple parts of the cloud migration journey; namely: Discover, Assess, Migrate, Manage, and Operate. We will cover various tools that either falls into one of or span multiple phases in the migration journey. As a quick-link reference, here is the list of tools this…

Demystifying Azure Migrations – Part 5 (Discover): Custom Scripts

In the introduction to this series, we identified that there are multiple parts of the cloud migration journey; namely: Discover, Assess, Migrate, Manage, and Operate. We will cover various tools that either falls into one of or span multiple phases in the migration journey. As a quick-link reference, here is the list of tools this series will…

Demystifying Azure Migrations – Part 4 (Discover): OVF/OVA

In the introduction to this series, we identified that there are multiple parts of the cloud migration journey; namely: Discover, Assess, Migrate, Manage, and Operate. We will cover various tools that either falls into one of or span multiple phases in the migration journey. As a quick-link reference, here is the list of tools this series will…

Demystifying Azure Migrations – Part 3 (Discover): Service Map

In the introduction to this series, we identified that there are multiple parts of the cloud migration journey; namely: Discover, Assess, Migrate, Manage, and Operate. We will cover various tools that either falls into one of or span multiple phases in the migration journey. As a quick-link reference, here is the list of tools this series will…

Demystifying Azure Migrations – Part 2 (Discover): Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit

In the introduction to this series, we identified that there are multiple parts of the cloud migration journey; namely: Discover, Assess, Migrate, Manage, and Operate. We will cover various tools that either falls into one of or span multiple phases in the migration journey. As a quick-link reference, here is the list of tools this series will…

Demystifying Azure Migrations – Part 1: Introduction

So you’re interested in the Cloud, in particular, the Microsoft Azure Cloud. Great, now what? Where do you start? Most organizations that are interested in Azure start off by trying to determine which workloads could be moved to the cloud, and what type of return on investment (ROI) and cost savings they’ll receive. The challenge…

Azure-to-Azure (A2A) Disaster Recovery (ASR)

Many organizations are moving mission critical applications to Azure. A lot of organizations are starting to explore Microsoft Azure as a Disaster Recovery (DR) site to their existing datacenters. If you haven’t started to consider this, Microsoft provides several tools to assess your “Cloud Readiness”, and help you estimate the costs, and ROI, in moving…