1. The journey continues in the cloud
Many others are improving security, efficiency, and performance while driving innovation and collaboration by moving on-premises workloads to the cloud.
The four companies profiled in this e-book show how cloud modernization can help you address the cost, skillset, security, and compliance issues central to your business.
2. Allscripts migrates easily to familiar Microsoft technologies
1. Used Azure Site Recovery to replicate on-premises virtual machines for one of the acquired companies to Azure, and then fail over the virtual machines from the primary site to the Azure datacenter.
2. Moved systems that couldn’t be migrated to Azure to an Allscripts datacenter instead, then established a VPN between the two.
3. Consolidated the second acquisition—which had 16 Azure subscriptions— to its own, pre-existing enrollment agreement.
The second company also had 600 on-premises virtual machines, most running older versions of Windows Server and SQL Server. For those, Allscripts took advantage of the Azure Hybrid Benefit and, using Azure SQL Database Managed Instance, rehosted them to the cloud with only minimal changes. Taking this approach also added built-in PaaS capabilities such as automatic patching, backup, and high availability.
3. GEA centralizes control of its IT estate
GEA designed its cloud architecture within just three months, but deliberately avoided planning individual workloads in advance. This approach enabled GEA to optimize its portfolio through the migration, and now the company incorporates the latest Azure capabilities as they become available. GEA completed migration of 120 SAP systems and about 800 server workloads (including all ERP systems) to Azure within eight months, with no major negative business impact. Since early 2018, GEA has been operating its most complex systems from the central datacenters within the cloud. Now, it’s tackling international segmentation.
4. Jellyfish gets flexible access to more compute power
Jellyfish needed a way to spin up temporary rendering resources, but until recently public cloud providers didn’t offer high-performance computing (HPC) virtual machines. The company turned to Azure Virtual Machines for HPC workloads because of the ability to mix and match Windows and open source, savings on licensing costs (which add up with its 1,000+ virtual machines), and the superior support provided by the Azure team.
5. MedPoint innovates and adapts more quickly
The company wanted to innovate more rapidly and adapt more easily to changing customer and regulatory requirements, so it moved its development and hosting environment to Microsoft Azure. Azure security and compliance standards were critical to the company’s decision to migrate its solution portfolio to Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS)—as well as Azure’s robust PaaS offerings. The smooth transition to the new environment was also a plus. With a redesigned and improved architecture, MedPoint Digital was able to migrate its entire server infrastructure and software to Azure in one weekend
