Announcing Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate - offerings to accelerate your cloud journey

 

Cloud adoption has revolutionized businesses across various industries and sizes, remaining a central element of business strategy. Through cloud adoption, customers unlock advantages like scalability, cost efficiency, and flexibility. The recent strides in AI present new ways for innovation, including intelligent products, predictive analytics, enhanced customer experiences, and more.

 

Every organization's cloud journey is unique, spanning migration support, cloud-native app development, and AI integration. Whether for efficiency gains, security enhancement, or AI-ready data ecosystems, comprehensive resources are now consolidated.

 

Introducing Azure Migrate and Modernize, alongside Azure Innovate:

1. Azure Migrate and Modernize: Formerly Azure Migration and Modernization Program (AMMP), this expanded offering combines AMMP elements with amplified features like assessments, partner incentives, and support for additional workloads (HPC, Oracle, Linux, SAP, and mainframe migrations).

2. Azure Innovate: This novel offering addresses advanced innovation needs, encompassing AI integration, advanced analytics, and custom cloud-native apps. Guided assistance covers planning, deployment, pilots, POCs, analytics migration, and deploying AI copilots using personalized data.

These offerings address your end-to-end cloud journey on Azure:

• Unified resources: Comprehensive guidance, assessments, tooling, and deployment assistance ensure a streamlined, optimized process from start to finish.
• Proven technical frameworks: Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well-Architected Framework (WAF), will help you design optimized workloads from the start, with security and cost recommendations built throughout.
• Free automated tooling: Azure Migrate provides you with discovery, assessment, business case analysis, planning, migration, and modernization capabilities.
• Access to experts: Microsoft experts and partners provide assistance through assessments, TCO analysis, cloud adoption approaches, workshops, pilots, and even deployment.
• Microsoft-led delivery: In addition to specialized partners being available for more complex workloads, with Azure Migrate & Modernize you can also benefit from Microsoft-led delivery for rapid rehost migrations increasing speed and lowering cost of migration even further.
• Partner funding for specialized partners: We’re deepening our investment in our partner ecosystem, increasing both capacity and capability across the Azure portfolio, to get you expert help when you need it. Read more about our expanded investments in our partner ecosystem here.
• Extensive coverage: from migration to innovation – Our new offerings will help you across a wide range of your cloud adoption needs: including migrating or modernizing Windows Server & SQL Server, Linux, Oracle, SAP, HPC, analytics, AI and more. 

Equipped with powerful tools and resources, Azure Migrate and Modernize, as well as Azure Innovate, ensure a seamless cloud transition, delivering flexibility, scalability, and cost savings on your terms.

 

 

Resources

• Turn Vision into Impact with Azure - Microsoft Inspire Announcement
• Microsoft Commerce Incentives Guide - Check out program details