Azure Migrate and Modernise: 1-3 Week Assessment

Nasstar's Azure Migration & Modernisation

It’s not just about Cloud; it’s about your readiness for what’s next! Business leaders face increasing pressure to innovate and adapt in a rapidly changing market landscape, despite limited resources and constrained budgets impacting their ability to invest in new technologies and initiatives. Nasstar and Microsoft have teamed up to help you deploy a modern and secure Azure platform foundation and move your workloads to the cloud with minimal upfront investment.

Our Azure Migration & Modernisation offering is designed to address these challenges head-on. By leveraging Microsoft incentives and funding programmes such as Azure Migrate & Modernise, Cloud Migration Factory, and Azure Innovate programmes (subject to eligibility), we ensure that your transition to the cloud is not only seamless but also cost-effective. Our approach focuses on creating a robust and scalable Azure environment that supports your business goals and drives innovation.

With Nasstar's expertise and Microsoft's cutting-edge technology, you can expect a transformation that enhances your operational efficiency, reduces costs, and positions your organisation for future growth. Our comprehensive solution ensures that your cloud journey is smooth, secure, and aligned with your strategic objectives.

With Nasstar's Azure Migration & Modernisation, you will gain the following benefits

   
• Reduce “Run” costs: Optimising workloads in Azure will help you remove technology debt and increase ROI.
   
• Reduce exposure to Cybercrime: Your workloads in Azure will benefit from greater protection with Microsoft Defender and Sentinel at the heart of the platform.
   
• A future-proofed platform: A flexible platform that accelerates innovation, reduces costs and complexity, and keeps your information secure.
   
• AI-Ready: Without a modern cloud platform, organisations cannot take advantage of AI, automation, or real-time insights.

Modernisation with Purpose, powered by Partnership

   
• Co-Delivery: Nasstar and Microsoft offer a co-delivery model that reduces risk and accelerates your time to value.
   
• Microsoft Investment: Our engagements are designed to maximise Microsoft funding programmes available to you.
   
• Proven Adoption Framework and Expertise: We bring proven frameworks, industry expertise, and a focus on business outcomes - not just technology.
   
• Proven Partner Migration Track Record: Nasstar has a track record of migrating and modernising customer workloads to Azure across all market sectors. Additionally, once live we can layer on top innovation with new data and AI-powered workloads.

The Azure Migrate and Modernise offering consists of three phases, each with a set of deliverables and activities

Evaluate and Assess

• Understand business goals, and challenges.
• Identify Azure use cases for your organisation.
• Assess the current IT infrastructure and application to determine cloud readiness.
• Prioritise workloads and infrastructure for cloud modernisation.

Migration to Azure

• Select a high-impact use case for the Azure Proof-of-Value (PoV).
• Prepare the PoV pilot to demonstrate Azure's capabilities in IT modernisation.
• Replicate additional workloads to Azure and perform failover testing
• Conduct production workload cutover to Azure, performing post-failover optimisations to leverage cloud-native functionality.

Transition to Production and Secure

• Transition migrated and transformed workloads to managed operations.
• Baseline performance of migrated infrastructure and applications.
• Perform security configuration optimisations.
• Monitor and optimise transformed workloads via Nasstar's next-generation managed service.

By the end, you can expect to receive:

• A validated plan for workload modernisation and migration to Azure.
• A working Azure solution, ready for enhanced IT performance and security.
• A clear roadmap for scaling Azure across your organisation.
• Key considerations for future investments in Azure-driven transformation.

Unlock the full potential of your IT infrastructure and applications with Azure and Nasstar's Microsoft Cloud expertise. Let’s start talk about funding available for your transformation journey today.

Actual pricing and timelines for this engagement will be tailored based on the agreed scope and customer requirements determined during the initial consultation.