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Azure Readiness & Strategy

You're never too late to move to the cloud. But if you're already there, how do you accelerate your digital transformation? What's your strategy?

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Azure Readiness & Strategy Overview

Microsoft Azure is a powerful cloud platform designed to help you empower productivity, ensure security, drive efficiency and cut costs. It delivers resilience, value and impact to your company's operations. What is your cloud strategy? Choose from a variety of options to deploy cloud services: public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and edge networks. Deciding between these computing environments can depend on many factors.

Azure Well-Architected

The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding principles used to improve workload quality. The framework consists of five pillars of architecture excellence: cost optimisation, operational excellence, performance efficiency, reliability and security. Byte is a Microsoft Azure well-architected partner.

The Benefits of Azure Readiness & Strategy

Work on your business and leave your cloud worries behind.

Reduce Costs

Cloud computing eliminates the fixed costs of hardware. Simply pay as you go and enjoy a subscription-based model that benefits your cash flow.

Business Improvement

Set yourself apart from the competition by accessing enterprise-grade software, automating processes and improving customer and user experience.

Disaster Recovery

Cloud-based services provide quick data recovery for all kinds of emergency scenarios, from natural disasters to power outages.

Flexibility

There is a finite amount of IT resources to divide across all of your IT functions. The cloud offers businesses more flexibility. If you need extra bandwidth, a cloud-based service can meet that demand instantly.

Increased Security

A cloud host's full-time job is to monitor security carefully. More than 90% of businesses who have migrated to the cloud say it both improved their security and made it easier to meet government compliance requirements.

More Collaborative

Cloud computing makes collaboration a simple process. Team members can view and share information easily and securely across a cloud-based platform as well as communicate instantly with chat-based workspaces.

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Cloud Readiness Assessment

Assess your cloud readiness, improve performance and start building competitive advantages.

Completing this assessment will give you a robust understanding of the costs associated with moving to Azure with recommendations on how to optimise the migration processes.

We cover the following:

Cloud applications design & architecture
Line-of-business native development and migration
High-performance web apps
Full-stack micro-services application development
Cloud solutions and on-premise systems integration
Process automation

Typical Engagement Length

3 Hours

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FREE

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Cloud Strategy Workshop

This detailed workshop helps companies stay on track when migrating to the cloud. It should be the first step for every company wanting to take full advantage of the very best cloud services.

Discover and understand current business needs and pain points
Application design, security, and compliance.
Develop and plan roadmap for ongoing cloud success

Includes the following:

1-day workshop
High-level cloud strategy
High-level architecture diagrams
Roadmap for phase 1

Typical Engagement Length

3 Days

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From $5k

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Cloud Adoption Framework

Following Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), Byte will work with you to understand your the current state of your business and technology, allowing you to recognise your unique motivators and goals for moving to the cloud.

This results in a tailored strategy and roadmap for your organisation to follow as you embark on the journey to the cloud. This Roadmap includes the following:

Strategic analysis & cost estimates
Business justification development
Skills & support assessment
Insights: cloud strategy, governance & best practice recommendations
Prioritised cloud roadmap

Byte will perform a deep dive into your goals for migrating your on-premises workloads to Azure. We will explore areas that include the following:

Business process optimisation
DevOps
Data and analytics
Modern workplace
Security and governance
Disaster recovery and business continuity planning

Key deliverables:

1-2 day workshop
Strategy report
Presentation of findings

Typical Engagement Length

3 Weeks

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From $20k

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Backup and DR in the time of hybrid clouds (the Microsoft way)

Everybody knows how important backup is in today’s world, from your business and company data to your personal data, your contacts, emails, your holiday photos, even those secret grandma’s recipes.

Backup & DR in the Time of Hybrid Clouds (The Microsoft Way): Part 2 Site Recovery

Part One: Azure Backup ServerPart Two: Azure Site RecoveryAt last, the long-awaited (and long overdue) second part of the series is in front of you. Today, I’ll cover Azure Site Recovery (ASR), Microsoft’s Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) offering, basics and how it can help you protect your data by creating a replica of your production workloads, whether they are virtual or physical, running on Hyper-V or VMware, or even running in Azure (in case you need to have a Disaster Recovery site in a different Azure region or even in a different subscription). ASR is also an excellent migration tool for your workloads, regardless of the source, as long as your destination is Microsoft Azure. In this article, I’ll focus on ASR as a DR for your on-premises VMware workloads. Let’s begin.