Microsoft partners are facing increasing or unpredictable costs in a changing market. To address this, moving to the cloud with Microsoft Azure is a smart way to modernize and take advantage of cloud-native capabilities. In addition to directly migrating to Azure, partners have two other options to consider:
1. Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is ideal for customers who want to stick with VMware and lock in Reserved Instance pricing for up to five years for more predictable costs.
2. Azure Stack HCI is a good option for customers who prefer to stay on-premises and virtualize workloads to run cloud-native apps.
To explore these options and see if they align with your organization’s needs and capabilities, reach out to the Microsoft Datacenter Optimization (DCO) team. Azure VMware Solution allows you to move your VMware virtual machines “as is” to Azure, enabling you to run VMware workloads natively on Azure while benefiting from Azure services. AVS also provides long-term pricing protection for Reserved Instances contracted and deployed by June 30, 2024. A customer story about Kier Group in the UK demonstrates the benefits of transitioning to the cloud with AVS.
Azure Stack HCI helps you virtualize workloads and run cloud-native apps on-premises by upgrading and consolidating legacy virtualization hosts. This solution improves scalability, simplifies management and security, and reduces total cost of ownership by retiring older SAN storage. With Azure Stack HCI, you can run containerized, cloud-native, and virtualized workloads side by side on-premises, deploy and manage container-based apps with Azure Kubernetes Service, share a GPU device to simplify AI deployment, and extend functions of Azure Migrate.
To take advantage of Azure VMware Solution and Azure Stack HCI, partners can contact the Microsoft Datacenter Optimization team to start exploring these solutions and modernizing their business. This will help navigate market changes and find the best path forward. Additionally, partners can access success stories from Microsoft partners on maximizing their cloud hosting strategies in 2024. Partners can also join conversations on important topics with Microsoft and other US partners in the Microsoft Americas Partner Community on LinkedIn.
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