Making the move

to the cloud
Exploring the benefits of infrastructure in the cloud, from cost-effectiveness to scalability

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Why move to the cloud?

Agenda: Impact of deploy

Azure Why migrate now?

Migrations Readiness

Why Azure infrastructure?

Azure resources

Appendix

Why move to the cloud?

Impact of deploy
Why migrate now?
Readiness
Why Azure infrastructure?
Azure resources
Appendix
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Why move our

infrastructure to the cloud?
Exploring the operational, financial,
and compliance and management benefits
Operational
Benefits
Expedite operational capacity while
reducing IT overhead costs
• Gain efficiencies
• Raise reliability
• Add scale cost-effectively
• [Other operational benefits] 90 percent
Reduction in data center support
needs by Year 3.*

*The Total Economic Impact of Microsoft IaaS, a commissioned study

conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft, August 2019.
https://azure.microsoft.com/resources/forrester-tei-microsoft-azure-iaas/
Financial
benefits
Reduce costs and enable
new revenue streams
ROI of
• Save on datacenter and hardware leasing

478%
• Avoid costs on license renewals
• Switch from capital expenditure to operating expense
• [Other financial benefits]
after Year 3.*

*The Total Economic Impact of Microsoft IaaS, a commissioned study conducted by

Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft, August 2019.
https://azure.microsoft.com/resources/forrester-tei-microsoft-azure-iaas/
Compliance and
management benefits
Improve effectiveness of managing
regulatory challenges
•

•
Increase the efficiency and productivity of managing
compliance tools, the compliance environment, and auditing
Reduce costs of compliance-related penalties
$4.29 million/
year
• Improve agility in responding to new and ever-changing average value achieved by leveraging
national and international regulations cloud IaaS for compliance*
• Enhance the overall productivity of auditing and compliance
teams as well as IT support
• Reduce the incidence of unplanned downtime and minimize
the use of help desk

*IDC: Microsoft Azure Is Helping Organizations Manage Regulatory

Challenges More Effectively, May 2019
The impact of deploying
Azure infrastructure
By avoiding on-site infrastructure costs,
Avoided on-premises
a deploy translates to a significant impact infrastructure costs of
on our overall ROI.
$7.3 million
• ROI of 478% after Year 3
• Payback of less than three months
• NPV (Net Present Value) = $10.8 MM

The Total Economic Impact of Microsoft IaaS, a commissioned study conducted by

Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft, August 2019.
https://azure.microsoft.com/resources/forrester-tei-microsoft-azure-iaas/
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more efficient IT Moving infrastructure

compliance environment to Azure and its impacts
management teams on compliance
How we can manage regulatory challenges
Key business value highlights: more effectively
24% more productive regulatory compliance teams
More IT organizations are seeing how moving infrastructure
39% improved agility in responding to new regulations to the cloud can increase the efficiency and productivity
of managing compliance tools, the compliance
35% lower costs of compliance-related penalties
environment, and auditing.

The Total Economic Impact of Microsoft IaaS, a commissioned study conducted by

Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft, August 2019.
https://azure.microsoft.com/resources/forrester-tei-microsoft-azure-iaas/
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Improve backup
and disaster recovery
44% more efficient with Azure
Disaster recovery as a service, delivered via
data recovery teams* the cloud, dramatically changes the
economics of disaster recovery, making
• 99% reduction in lost productivity it both affordable and cost-effective for
• 66% reduction in average data recovery time nearly every organization.
• 76% faster backups  
Moreover, organizations can ensure the survival of their
data in the event of a disaster and can quickly reestablish
application services using on‐demand infrastructure.
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Why migrate to
cloud infrastructure now? Migration now means:
It will allow us to enable quick scalability and
increase innovation, all while reducing costs. We are paving the way
• Datacenter contracts expiring for greater innovation.
• Integrating acquisitions
• Urgent capacity needs
• Moving from CapEx to OpEx
Empowering our business
• Software and hardware refresh
to more effectively
• Security threats
compete at scale.
• Compliance
• Application innovation We reduce costs related
• Application delivery speed to IT overhead and capital
• Software end of support expenditures.
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Readiness

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Here are four offerings to check out:

Get to know Azure Role-based

Explore the world of cloud computing and learn what sets Azure apart
certifications

Cloud Concepts: Free Pluralsight training: Azure fundamentals: Explore certifications:

This hour-long beginner-level
course covers the definition of
cloud computing, different types of
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Free self-assessment and courses from
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training to specific roles, including
administrator, developer, solution
architect, engineer, and more.
Getting started with Azure webinar, A resource for locating
which can be viewed live (includes a certification paths for those
live Q & A session) or on-demand. interested in taking their
learning to the next level.
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Why Azure
infrastructure?
Infrastructure as a service provides enormous
benefits to our business.
 Secure Savings Innovative
Secure
Our data and apps
stay secure.
Microsoft invests more than USD $1 billion
annually on cybersecurity research and
development.
Microsoft employs more than 3,500 security
experts completely dedicated to your data
security and privacy.
Azure has more compliance certifications than
any other cloud provider. View the
comprehensive list.
Komatsu found that Azure is more secure
because the service chain of the cloud
includes extensive security measures.
Savings
We’ll pay less with Azure.
AWS is five times more
expensive than Azure
for Windows Server and
SQL Server.
Ways in which we’ll save:
• On our existing licenses.
• Reserve up-front and pay less.
• Extend our security updates for free.
Smithfield: Slashed datacenter costs by
60 percent and reduced new-application
delivery from two months to one day.
 
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Innovative
Empowering our business
to achieve more
• Being future-ready, while simultaneously
supporting current development
• No need for patching or upgrading;
evergreen SQL stays up-to-date
• Gain agility, enhance performance, and operate
at a global scale
“Being able to leverage so many off-the-shelf
services and tools from Azure enabled us to
go from zero to a full-fledged e-commerce
marketplace in just about 12 months.”
Jet.com
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