When we support customers looking to modernize their IT estate, our vision is to empower businesses to seamlessly manage and migrate their on-premises and cloud environments with efficiency and insight. To help customers with their migration and hybrid cloud journey, we have been working to bridge the gap between on-premises and cloud environments by providing consistent management experiences for both. This week at Ignite, we are excited to announce the public preview of two capabilities as part of customer’s migration journey that bring us closer to this vision: "Business Case for Arc" and "Enabling Arc” capabilities.
With these new capabilities in Azure Migrate, customers can now visualize the value of Azure Arc for their on-premises estates throughout their migration journey, making informed decisions with confidence. Customers in their migration journey can now check if their on-premises machine is already Arc enabled, and if not, get the value/savings of using Arc while their resource remains on-premises and leverage the Arc capabilities based on the same.
Envision the Benefits of Azure Arc and Azure Management with Business case for Arc
The Azure Migrate business case enables customers to create a detailed comparison of the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for their on-premises estate versus the TCO on Azure, along with a year-on-year cash flow analysis as they transition their workloads to Azure. With this new capability, customers can now visualize the added value of Azure Arc for their on-premises estates throughout their migration journey. Customers , in addition to getting the TCO of migrating all their resources to Azure, can now compare their estimated current on-premises TCO with the estimated TCO of their on-premises estate with Azure Arc, visualize the cost savings and other benefits of using Azure security (Microsoft Defender for Cloud) and management tools (Azure Monitor and Azure Update Manager) via Azure Arc for their on-premises servers, and see the licensing benefits of Extended Security Updates (ESUs) enabled by Azure Arc, as well as SQL Pay-As-You-Go via Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server.
For those not planning to migrate their entire estate or on a long migration journey, they can compare their current on-premises TCO with the combined Azure and Azure Arc TCO in the final planned state to help plan better. Customers can edit the assumptions for Azure and on-premises costs and download the business case report using the export option to share with other stakeholders.
Enable Arc: Onboarding to Arc to leverage Azure Management Services
The Azure Migrate inventory now integrates with Azure Arc, allowing customers to identify which of their discovered machines are already Arc-enabled and onboard those that are not, directly from the Azure Migrate portal. This integration provides a seamless experience, offering enhanced control and visibility over the migration process while managing the remaining on-premises inventory.
Next Steps and Actions
Get started here and generate a business case: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/migrate/how-to-build-a-business-case
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