Making progress on your digital goals with Microsoft Azure starts with a migration and modernisation 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 datacentre 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 organisation 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 will 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.
Modernisation 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. Modernisation 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, modernisation 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.
