Does legacy IT infrastructure frustrate your efforts to grow and evolve business-critical applications? Are you paying too much for on-premises or colocated servers? Migrating to the Azure cloud will free your business from legacy infrastructure. With Azure, businesses iterate quickly, scale smoothly, and take control of infrastructure spending.

This article is the last in a series that focuses on Rehosting To Azure. In previous articles, we looked at The Benefits of Rehosting to Azure, How a Cloud Migration Assessment Will Help Avoid Mistakes, and Best Practices for Building a Cloud Migration Strategy.

This article is the third in a series that focuses on Rehosting To Azure. In previous articles, we looked at The Benefits of Rehosting and How a Cloud Migration Assessment Will Help Avoid Mistakes. In this article, we detail a best practice migration strategy for a successful Azure rehosting project and take a closer look at some of the tools Microsoft makes available to streamline cloud migration. It should be stressed that a successful cloud migration depends on an accurate assessment of an application’s existing infrastructure and an understanding of the best way to replicate it efficiently on Azure.  At VIAcode, we live and breathe Azure, and we’ve carried out hundreds of successful migrations. The cloud migration process we outline here is based on years of rehosting experience.

This is part 1 of our 4-part series on the benefits of cloud migration with Azure. Azure cloud migration is the transfer of both applications and workloads from existing bare metal or cloud infrastructure to Microsoft Azure, an enterprise-focused cloud platform. Microsoft Azure supports a complete range of public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructure, but it is not merely a platform for launching virtual servers and storage. Azure also offers many network, application hosting, container hosting and management, monitoring and logging, analytics, security, database, and machine learning services.