2. To get there, organizations
need to be ready to act
$266B
public cloud market
by 2021*
62%
use cloud as a platform for
modernizing IT environments*
87%
plan to integrate their on-
premises datacenter with
public cloud
This can feel like an
incredible opportunity
Cloud adoption on the rise
Analysts predict increasing
cloud adoption
Speed is the new currency
3. Time for a change?
With the cost of
mechanical and electrical
equipment, as well as the
price of power, this
model no longer works..
Gartner,Pressrelease:Gartneridentifies 10keyactionstoreduceIT
infrastructureandoperationscostsbyasmuchas25percent.
80%
global IT budgets
dedicated to maintenance
28%
time spent on
administrative tasks
6. $$$
$$
$
15-20%
savings over
on-premises*
Use a Azure Migrate and TCO analysis to
better understand what gains can be
achieved by moving to Azure
35% over
on-premises,
15% over
VMs*
On-premises
IaaS
PaaS
*Based on assumptions using the Azure Cost Calculator
The more you modernize, the lower
your operational costs
PaaS
7. $2,964
$1,777
Without Azure Hybrid
use benefit for Windows
Server
With Azure Hybrid
use benefit for
Windows Server
Sample annual cost comparison of two D2v2 Promo VMs
Note: Savings based on two D2 v2 VMs in West US 2 Region running 20 hours/day for one year (365 days), base compute rate at CentOS or Ubuntu Linux rate for West US 2, and Software Assurance cost (Level A) for Windows Server Standard
edition (one 2-processor license or a set of 16 core licenses). Actual savings may vary based on location, instance type, or usage. Prices as of April 2017. Prices subject to change.
Save money on Azure virtual machines
Up to 40%
savings
Move to cloud
with savings
Maximize your
investments
9. Accurate cost analysis of
cloud versus on-premises
It’s too complicated—
where even to begin?
Keeping the business running
without downtime
What’s getting in the way?
Migration realities
10. A simpler approach to migration
Automated workload and
data discovery
TCO and ROI analysis
Recommendation reports
Discover Optimize
Continual health, performance, and
cost management
Access to advanced features in data
services
Application analysis for optimal PaaS
migration
Migrate
Effortless app, virtual machine,
and workload migration to Azure
Convert existing .NET
applications to containers
Your choice of Azure database
destination
11. Modernization
Containerize
application
Code refactor
Services migration to
PaaS
OPTIONAL: Containerize
Application
VM migration
ASR
(Future Azure Migrate)
Third-party tools
Data migration
Data Migration Assistant
and Database Migration
Service
App and workload
discovery
Azure Migrate
Third-party tools
Discover
Migrate
Optimize/Modernize
Cost savings and efficiency begins with easy steps…
12. 1 3 4
2
Containerize the app
10X
OpEx time savings
99%
Faster security VULN
MTTR
5 min
Average new time to
scale apps
APP
Modern infrastructure
50%
Infrastructure
consolidation
99%
Deployment time
savings
99%
Portability/Cloud migrations
Modern methodologies
27%
More testing automation
30%
More deployment
automation
Modern microservices
13X
Deployment frequency
65%
Reduce dev onboarding
time
27%
More change approvals
…transforming existing apps to microservices,
with ROI at every stage
13. From Microsoft
Our Partners
Database Migration
Service
Operations
Management Suite
+
Cloudyn
Discovery Migrate Optimize/Modernize
Database Migration
Assistant
Azure Migrate (including ASR)
+ MTA Program
Integrated tools across every stage
14. Free for all
customers
Azure
Migrate
Azure Database
Migration Service
Free for
EA customers
Azure Cost
Management
Azure
DataBox
Azure Hybrid
Benefit
Windows Server
SQL Server
Free for all
customers
Large volume
storage migration
Removing barriers to migrate
A new set of services and offers enables seamless migrations
15. Lift and Shift
(Apps, Virtual Machines, Workloads)
Want to move to cloud to lower your maintenance
costs by taking advantage of cloud infrastructure.
Need a scale-on-demand capacity with no change in
application environment needed.
Lift and Shift is great when you
Want to avoid the burden of owning on-premises
servers and datacenters. The cost and risk of
maintaining the facilities are high.
Want to have data disaster recovery in cloud.
16. Azure Migrate
Guidance, insights and mechanisms
for cloud migration
• Discover and assess on-premises virtual
machines and servers
• Build-in dependency mapping
• Intelligent right-sizing for Azure virtual
machines
• Compatibility reporting with guidelines for
remediating potential issues
• Migrates workloads through seamless virtual
machine and server replication
17. *Coming Soon
Azure Migrate discovery
and assessment
Intelligent rightsizing and analysis
• Agentless virtual machine discovery through virtual appliance
• Supporting vSphere and Hyper-V*
• Windows Server and Linux VMs
• Dependency mapping to ensure full visibility of all application VMs
• Understand all server and application connections
• Discover unknown relationships to ensure thorough migration
• Intelligent right-sizing
• Recommendations for Azure series targeting indicated utilization (95% default)
• Cost analysis
• Application group cost analysis for superior budgeting
• Region and currency specific
• Enabled for Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server
• Azure readiness
• Deep assessment of VMs to determine Azure compatibility
• Reporting on VM readiness, suggested configuration updates, and migration recommendations
• Database Migration Service integration
18. Azure Migrate server replication (via ASR)
• Flexible and powerful migration tools for
anywhere to Azure migration
• Model start-up flow and configuration
dependencies for concise application
migration
• Built-in migration testing to ensure
expected results
• Warm migration with no long outages
• Advanced monitoring and analytics
enable you to manage performance and
utilization
• Built into Azure Migrate
*Coming Soon
19. Cost optimization and
efficiency (via Cloudyn)
• Visibility into resource costs
• Visibility into application and departmental
costs
• Budgeting
• Cost optimization with right-sizing
guidance
• Free to all Enterprise Agreement customers
20. Azure – the best platform for Linux
Container Service App Service Service Fabric HDInsight
Virtual Machines Scale Sets Dev/Test Labs
Proactive baseline monitoring with
Azure Security Center
No agent configuration needed
Linux-aware patch monitoring
Recommendations via azsecd
Disk Encryption capabilities
Linux- and workload-aware log analytics
No agent configuration needed
Includes performance counters and log
correlation
Comprehensive disaster recovery
capabilities with ASR and Recovery Vault
All images include platform
support by Microsoft via Azure
Linux support
Premium images (SUSE and RHEL)
include single-point-of-contact,
and integrated support
experiences (for RHEL)
21. Windows Server Dynamics SQL Server
SharePoint
Azure – the best platform for your
Microsoft apps
22. Evolve existing infrastructure
Move workloads between on-premises and cloud
without worrying about downtime
Application innovation
Deliver faster time-to-value with agile
apps and microservices
Save money with your move
Save up to 40 percent on Windows Server
virtual machines in Azure
Windows
Server
Dynamics
SharePoint
SQL
Windows
Server
Move to the cloud faster, achieve more,
and save money with a growing
collection of integrated services.
Get end-to-end cloud-based
infrastructure services that make it easy
to reliably run business-critical enterprise
applications in the cloud.
Accomplish
more with your
workloads
23. Windows
Server
Dynamics
SharePoint
SQL Server
Dynamics
With the cloud, companies can provide a
single, centralized platform for all data.
Dynamics 365 was developed to help
customers simplify and streamline their
migrations to the cloud to achieve fast
time-to-value with predefined and
automated deployments.
Accomplish
more with your
workloads
Deploy when and where you need
Leverage hybrid deployments to better align with
what your organization needs
Retain complete control over your data
Choose who accesses your data, while taking
advantage of one of the most trusted clouds on the
planet
Lower the cost of doing business
Free up IT resources by taking advantage of the
built-in capabilities of Azure
24. Windows
Server
Dynamics
SharePoint
SharePoint
Azure provides a unified cloud platform with
greater choice and flexibility for SharePoint
deployments and tight integration.
Harness the advantages of Azure: reduce the
time to deploy complex SharePoint farms
from days to minutes, scale SharePoint
infrastructure on Azure on-demand to meet
changing business requirements, and more.
SQL Server
Accomplish
more with your
workloads
Move faster in the cloud
Boost a SharePoint deployment from days to
hours with ready-to-deploy images
Integrated cloud platform for SharePoint
Enhance SharePoint capabilities by integrating with Azure services
Save on infrastructure and support costs
Be more cost effective and
use resources that you need
25. Windows
Server
Dynamics
SharePoint
SQL
SQL Server
Enable rapid data development and
deployment along with hybrid
infrastructure capabilities—move all or
part of your workloads to Azure.
SQL Server, Azure, and Operations
Management Suite (OMS), deliver a
world-class hybrid cloud platform that
supports customer requirements no
matter where they fit on the path to cloud.
Made for hybrid cloud
Your on-premises application can access data in Azure
SQL Database: achieve bottomless capacity, continuous
availability, and lower storage costs
Built for Azure
With SQL Server, take advantage of easier workload mobility
between datacenters, private clouds, and Azure
At a reasonable cost
Get breakthrough in-memory performance across all
workloads—all in one package at a low cost
Accomplish
more with your
workloads
26. Data Migration Scale performance of data workloads by shifting apps
to the cloud on Azure SQL Database.
Shift OSS VMs and apps to the cloud using Azure
Database for PostgreSQL and Azure Database for
MySQL.
Migrate data and virtual machines
for scalability and performance
Continue using instance level capabilities without
changing application design with Azure SQL
Database Managed Instance
Shift MongoDB, Graph, Cassandra apps to the cloud
using Azure Cosmos DB.
29. Azure Database Migration Service
Assess Migrate
Microsoft Data Migration Assistant
Data migration tools and services
30. Oracle SQL
SQL DB
Azure Database Migration Service
Streamline database migration to Azure
Managed service platform for migrating databases
Migrate SQL Server and third-party databases to Azure SQL
Database
31. Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
Migrate SQL Server databases
without application re-architecture
• Application surface compatibility:
• SQL Agent, SQL Profiler
• Cross database references and queries, CLR,
Replication, CDC, Service Broker
• Database sizes up to 35 TB
• Minimum downtime migration
• Azure Database Migration Service
• Native backup/restore and log shipping
• Security Isolation with Azure VNet
Unmatched app
compatibility
Unmatched
PaaS capabilities
Economical to
ensure best ROI
32. The modern
data estate
Security and privacy
Flexibility of choice
Reason over any data, anywhere
Data warehouses
Data lakes
Operational databases
HYBRID
On-premises Cloud
Data warehouses
Data lakes
Operational databases
33. SAP on Microsoft Azure Certain auditability or compliance requirements
prohibit putting some applications in the cloud. You
need a secure, seamless way to integrate all apps and
services easily.
You plan to create more B2B apps and integrate
multiple third party services into your LOB apps, on
premises or in the cloud.
Your on-premises infrastructure is key to the
business, and a major investment, but the
benefits of a cloud approach are becoming too
great to ignore.
Consider enterprise
integration when
34. Dev/Test.
Demo and
Training
Disaster
Recovery Archiving Production
Advanced
Analytics on
SAP Data
Modernize your SAP environments
SAP NetWeaver applications certified on Azure Infrastructure
for production and non-production
35. M-series VMs
for most
implementations
SAP HANA Large
Instances for
extreme scale
and performance
G-series VMs
for Dev/Test and
PoC
On-demand infrastructure Purpose-built infrastructure
*4-20 TB instances available soon
Your SAP HANA options on Azure
37. Why Azure for SAP workloads
20+ year partnership
SAP is betting on Azure for SuccessFactors
Azure is SAP certified for NetWeaver Suite
and SAP HANA
Building a strong SI ecosystem together
Microsoft is investing in creating in-house
SAP expertise
Differentiated strategy spanning VMs
and purpose-built infrastructure
Largest SAP HANA workloads (up to 20TB
of RAM) of any hyperscale public cloud
provider, bigger than AWS
Scaling out to 60 TB RAM for HANA OLAP,
with single-node support up to 20 TB for
HANA OLTP
Largest compliance portfolio—
54 compliance certifications
Best platform for digital transformation—
take advantage of high-level services like IoT,
data, Machine Learning, Power BI for insights
Broad Database support: As you prepare for
HANA, you can bring in your existing
applications using Oracle or SQL Server
38. Data and intelligence
Powerful analytics delivering intelligence
Trusted Cloud
Most comprehensive compliance and data privacy
Open + Flexible
Windows and Linux, true hybrid-enabled
Application innovation
Power of PaaS and IaaS with global scale
Why Azure
Many organizations have come to realize that moving existing workloads to the cloud can yield significant benefits, including the ability to deploy applications fast on global scale infrastructure, reduce maintenance requirements and costs, and maximize performance.
Cloud isn’t an instant destination. With significant investments on-premises, organizations that plan on moving to the cloud--either for cost-savings or as part of a larger digital transformation strategy— will need to operate in a hybrid environment mode for some time.
Organizations have options. Depending on the workload, they might want to rebuild the application using new app patterns with Azure PaaS – or containerize to lift and shift without any code changes.
By modernizing the infrastructure that powers your applications, you can drive significant cost efficiencies and save on IT maintenance budget.
Not only that, there is a McKinsey study which says “by digitizing information-intensive processes, costs can be cut by up to 90 percent and turnaround times improved by several orders of magnitude”
The second is from a MIT study that found agile firms increase revenues 37 percent faster than non-agile companies; the same businesses also generate 30 percent higher profits than their non-agile counterparts.
The third one is my favorite as when I talk to customers about cloud they typically ask whether it will make their data more secure? And we had comScore run a study for us and it found 94% on-premises customers experienced additional security benefits. Which is not surprising because once you move your servers say SQL server to the cloud, we will keep them up-to-date and monitor the security.
Here is an example for
On-prem - Cut traditional infrastructure expenses, including power and required floorspace
IaaS – Reduce datacenter, IT resource, and outsourcing costs
PaaS – Use a free cloud migration assessment and TCO analysis to better understand what gains can be achieved by moving to Azure
Assumptions:
On prem:
2 x servers + storage, ~75k each
Licensing/Support/admin costs ~20k annual
3-5 year lifespan ~ 155k total
Approx. $4000/mo over 4years.
Using VMS,
VMs: 2 x D12: 4 cores, 28 GB RAM, 200 GB disk
Managed disks: 4x S30 - 1024 GB
2x the infrastructure for a bare-minimum HA solution
$3284/mo
Azure SQL DB Elastic Pool:
Standard tier, 1200 eDTUs level, 1200 GB storage (max 500 DBs)
Storage 1200 GB
$2697/mo
Single Database:
10 x Standard tier, S3 level, 100 DTUs, 250 GB storage per DB
$1500/mo
You can save up to 40 percent on the on-demand price of running Windows Server apps in Virtual Machines with Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server. With the Azure Hybrid Benefit, for each OS license you have, Microsoft will cover the cost of the OS (on up to two virtual machines!), while you just pay for base compute costs.
Business realities create opportunities for companies willing to consider migration.
Many organizations are seeing a shift from capital expenses to operating expenses. Datacenter modernization—more powerful servers and more use of virtual machines, but a tendency toward creating a more complex environment, which increases operational costs.
Organizations are under increasing pressure to provide ironclad security and comply with regulatory requirements. As the datacenter gets more complex and more connectivity with the outside world, the threat of non-compliance and security breaches goes up. In addition, with customers often connected 24/7, business continuity is a major requirement. Building that resiliency can be quite expensive.
As a business, is your organization able to act quickly. Do you have the analytics necessary to make sound decisions regarding bandwidth, server capacity, etc. Can that server capacity grow and shrink as the business demands? Is your IT organization being proactive in adopting the latest technology which makes it easier to build, deploy, and manage IT resources?
Finally, expiring contracts and the end of support for specific software versions provides an opportunity to re-examine the organization’s future technical direction.
Migration to the cloud should be a well-planned journey, with well-defined milestones along the way. Without a strong plan, risks can include a complex and time-consuming process compounded by a lack of relevant skills, loss of control by moving computer resources off-premises, concerns about bandwidth, and unexpected costs. Microsoft has partners and a well-defined migration process, along with software tools, to ease this risk.
Working with customers and partners, Microsoft has developed a proven approach to migration that reduces risk and increases the chance of both a successful proof of concept and a clear path to additional migration opportunities. Following these steps, you get a clear picture of existing computing resources and dependencies, what will be needed on the Azure side, and what you can expect for costs. More details are on the following pages.
While migrating applications and data to a public cloud like Azure can seem risky, Microsoft has been able to move much of that risk by defining a three step process of: Discover, Migrate, and Optimize/Modernize. Tools like Azure Migrate allow you to do a complete inventory of your virtualized environment and identify those applications, workloads and databases most appropriate for a proof of concept migration. Other tools, both Microsoft’s and third-party, help simplify the migration itself. Once the migration has been tested, the applications and services can be further optimized on the Azure environment. After a successful proof of concept, companies then have both the experience and confidence to move on to more complicated applications.
A microservices architecture takes a monolithic application and breaks it into a collection of modular services, each of which operates independently. The benefit is these microservices can be deployed and managed more easily, and they can be deployed either locally or in the cloud. A first step in moving to this application is containerizing applications, allowing them to run on virtual machines. By containerizing apps and/or transforming them into microservices, the migration to the cloud becomes much easier. Companies that have at least partially adopted this architecture can more easily begin to migrate to the public cloud.
Microsoft and third parties have developed a set of tools to assist with each phase of the migration process, from Discovery to Migration to Optimization. In many cases, the third-party tools complement those built by Microsoft. For example, in the Migrate stage, CloudEndure provides support for a wider range of virtual machines and uses a slightly different replication technique that might be appropriate for some organizations. Velostrata is often used when a fast-paced migration of virtual machines is required.
In addition, many other Microsoft services offer consulting services which can provide migration expertise to companies who are new to it.
Microsoft offers a complete set of services and solutions. Many of these services and tools are free to Microsoft customers.
There are many scenarios under which Lift and Shift is the best approach:
Want to move to Cloud as-is to lower your maintenance costs taking advantage of cloud infrastructure
Want to avoid the burden of owning on-premises servers and data centers.
Need a scale-on-demand capacity with no change in application environment needed.
Need disaster recovery
To speed the discovery process, you can use Azure Migrate, a new free service from Microsoft that is integrated with Microsoft Azure Site Recovery and Microsoft Operations Management Suite.
Azure Migrate supports discovery of on-premises virtual machines in a VMware environment and recommends Azure Virtual Machine instance types and sizing. The service also provides cost estimates for running a workload in Azure and can map dependencies between virtual machines.
Azure Migrate helps companies decide which applications and virtual machines are most appropriate for a proof of concept, and which would be best migrate later. A big part of this is defining dependencies between different services, which would be impacted by a migration. It also helps companies understand what their costs will be and what Azure resources will be needed.
Azure Migrate’s server replication, incorporating the time-proven Azure Site Recovery, handles the actual migration of the services and virtual machines. It models workflows and dependencies to make sure the complete environment is migrated, then tests the result to ensure the migration went as expected.
Cloudyn, a recent addition to Microsoft’s suite of migration tools, will appeal to both business managers and IT because it provides detailed visibility into the resource costs of running systems on Azure. Through its reporting interface, organizations can monitor costs split across websites, virtual machines, storage, applications, databases and networks. Cloudyn will ensure migrated virtual machines continue to deliver targeted resource utilization and best cost by recommending changes.
Microsoft realizes that many companies run applications and workloads today on Linux, and that’s not a problem for organizations looking to migrate to the Azure cloud. Azure supports most popular versions of Linux and provides a full range of security, management, and support capabilities without lots of special reconfiguration. Linux can be run as-is on Azure VMs or as various services for a complete Platform as a Service environment.
Even if your organization hasn’t yet fully embraced a microservices architecture, even if you haven’t containerized your apps, it’s still possible to host fully-functional Microsoft application server environments like Windows Server, Dynamics, SharePoint and SQL Server on Azure.
Move to the cloud faster, achieve more, and save money with a growing collection of integrated services. It can provide you an end-to-end cloud-based infrastructure services (compute, database, storage, web, analytics, network, and mobile, among others) that make it easy to run business-critical enterprise applications in the cloud in a reliable way.
Extend your datacenter to Azure with Windows Server 2016 and experience cloud-ready innovation. Let Microsoft manage the Windows infrastructure for you on Azure and you focus on more business strategic things. Windows Server is the cloud-ready operating system that supports your current workloads while Azure make it easy to transition to cloud computing when you are ready. Azure delivers powerful new layers of flexibility, security , efficiency, reliability for the Windows applications and infrastructure that power your business. Once you are in Azure, you can tap into the dozens of Azure PaaS services to add even more greater value.
Make smarter decisions, redesign business processes faster, and fuel business growth using the cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution built for, and on, Azure—bringing together ERP, business intelligence, infrastructure, compute, and database services
Give your entire company access to the business intelligence (BI) they need—whenever and wherever they need it. By integrating BI into your company’s office tools, you’ll transform your data to enable greater insights for faster, more informed decisions.
Transform and adapt quickly to keep your organization at the forefront of your market. Simplify changes to your business process development and deployment with a consistent and user-friendly ERP solution.
Better plan and anticipate your business needs. Increase the visibility of organizational risks with a single, holistic view to help your IT department expand the business in ways not possible before—while continuing to provide security, scalability, and reliability.
Azure provides unified cloud platform with greater choices and flexibility for SharePoint deployment and tight integration. Harness the advantages of Azure, be it reducing the time to deploy complex SharePoint farms from days to minutes or scaling SharePoint infrastructure on Azure on-demand to meet ever growing business requirements. You can choose from multiple options to optimize your existing SharePoint investments and build your own cloud adoption strategy – lift and shift, hybrid or native deployment on Azure or migrate to SharePoint Online, a fully managed SaaS from Microsoft . Be assured of security and privacy of data. Azure ensures integrity of your business data with comprehensive compliance coverage and is recognized by leading industry-standard compliance certificates than any other cloud providers. Once you are successfully onboarded to Azure with your SharePoint workloads, Azure along with Operations Management Suite (OMS) allows you to gain immediate insights across your workloads and ensures maximum availability of your application and data.
Accomplish more with SQL Expanded options for bringing SQL-based solutions on Azure for advanced level of capabilities. Extend datacenter to Azure for bottomless capacity, continuous availability, and lower storage costs without investing in or maintaining additional infrastructure. Harness advantages of Azure with greater choice , flexibility, and rapid deployment of SQL Server environment. Azure ensures high integrity of your infrastructure, apps and data with comprehensive availability, security and compliance coverage. Use other services of Azure stack to receive advanced analytics for predictive and prescriptive business insights in real time.
Customers consider app modernization for a few reasons.
They want to leverage Cloud native technologies (born in the cloud). Examples are Serverless: Function, LogicApps.
They want to extend their existing apps (e.g. add new features, capacity) to benefit from the emerging AI tech, such as ML, AI, Bot…etc.
They want to mobilize their workforce, and have to mobile-ready their internal apps.
Finally, their dev teams would need seamless, modern, constant CI/CD capability to improve productivity and cut cost.
As with the application and VM migration discussed earlier, data migration includes a discovery/assessment stage, then the migration itself, which includes conversion of the data, remediating any compatibility issues, migrating the data and scheming, then optimizing. After testing, the data can be synced and then the organization can cut over to the Azure database.
The Data Migration Assistant helps with the discovery and assessment stage, then the Migration Service is used to migrate the data, schema, etc. It works with SQL Server as well as Oracle and MySQL.
The Database Migration Service helps migrate existing on-premises SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL databases to Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Database Managed Instance or SQL Server on Azure virtual machines.
This is new deployment option in preview within Azure SQL Database called Managed Instance.
Managed Instance offers near 100% SQL Server compatibility with the benefits of platform as a service! This includes features like SQL CLR, SQL Server Agent and cross-database querying. If you can imagine a managed SQL Server environment where you continue using instance level capabilities without changing your application design – it’s a real game changer. Managed Instance is currently in private preview, during which we’ll work with early adopter customers to make sure we satisfy the “lift and shift” requirements for the widest set of existing applications.
Fully-fledged SQL instance with nearly 100% compatibility with on-premises
Learns and adapts with customer apps
Competitive, Transparent and Frictionless
Power your entire data estate with SQL Server 2017 and Azure Data Services
Now we’ll look at all the reasons why Azure Data Services, along with SQL Server, are the right data management and analytics solutions for your cloud data estate. Only Microsoft can provide a consistent experience for all these workloads, from on-premises to the cloud. Any language, any platform, anywhere.
Data Sources
Azure Data Services has a variety of data management and analytics tools for all your data needs. It can store structured and unstructured data, whether it’s born in the cloud like sensor and social, or perhaps different data altogether like media.
Data Management
Azure SQL Database is the cloud answer to managing your operational data, with the ability to achieve infinite scale. It’s built on SQL Server, so your existing applications and skills transfer. And as a managed database service, it can save you time and money in both set-up and administration.
Azure SQL Data Warehouse is the industry’s first enterprise-class cloud data warehouse that can grow, shrink, and pause in seconds. Based on the proven SQL Server relational database engine, it gives petabyte scalability with massive parallel-processing architecture that enables distributed processing to handle the rigors of modern data realities. It independently scales compute and storage in seconds.
SQL Data Warehouse works seamlessly with Power BI, Azure Machine Learning, HDInsight, and Azure Data Factory.
Azure Data Lake - Offers data management and analytics at scale to customers, as Azure Data Lake. It is composed of three parts:
Azure Data Lake Store, Azure Data Lake Analytics, and HD Insight. Together with these products, you can store big data of any size and type, and analyze it with familiar open-source tools – all while getting a leading, enterprise-class SLA.
Out of necessity or comfort-level, many organizations still need to support various on-prem applications and services – but they can still leverage the cloud for many workflows. Microsoft’s enterprise integration capabilities make this possible.
BizTalk Server 2016 connects seamlessly to Azure Logic Apps and to other Azure services, giving you all the benefits of the cloud while still maintaining whatever IT assets might be required to be managed on-prem
Azure API Management connects to back-end services hosted anywhere, and Azure Logic Apps has many out-of-the-box connectors to enterprise SaaS providers
We are investing heavily in features to stay ahead of the curve in this critical area of enterprise services
Moving to HANA might be on the top of CIOs minds these days, but modernizing SAP environments doesn’t have to be just about the move to HANA. By bringing the benefits of the cloud into your SAP landscapes, you achieve significant cost savings and agility. This gets you one step closer to transformation even if you are planning on HANA transition down the road.
Azure has a wide set of SAP Netweaver certifications for production and non-production scenarios so you can take immediate advantage of the cloud scale, speed and economics.
For instance, you can run your Dev/Test for SAP environments on pay-as-you-go VM infrastructure and save 40-75% on TCO. You can implement DR in Azure with out-of-the-box DRaaS capabilities of Azure. This differentiates Azure from other public cloud providers.
You can use cheap and reliable storage to save your enormous SAP historical data for archiving or compliance purposes. Of course, you can run your production environments in Azure as well and free up datacenter capacity or consolidate datacenters.
On top of all the cost efficiencies and agility, you can also take advantage of Azure services like ML to drive insights from your business data and optimize your business processes with the new-found intelligence.
In Azure, we’re invested to give you highly scalable and performant infrastructure if you’re embarking on HANA.
Azure has virtual machines for dev/test, POCs as well as certified by SAP for production. They provide pay-as-you-go infrastructure with full certification for HANA and support upto ½ TB of RAM.
But we know SAP HANA systems can explode pretty quickly. So we’ve built specific hardware to give you unparalleled scale and performance. Called SAP HANA Large Instances they’re based on purpose-built infrastructure for HANA, are fully managed with 99.99% SLA and have up to 4 TB RAM per node today. We’ve been increasing this over time, and will continue to do so, so you’re HANA applications future-proof from a scale/performance POV. Currently available for production in the US, we’re building these out in AU and EU as well to be ready within next 6 months.
We’re also investing in VMs that are capable of handling large HANA workloads. We expect Z-series VMs to be certified by SAP by end 2017, which will then sport up to 3.5TB RAM per node. We will launch M-series in three waves:
Wave 1 (all before end of CY17): US East 2, US West, West Europe, UK South, Australia East, Australia SE, JPN East, JPN West
Wave 2 (in CY18): India, Canada East and Canada Central
Wave 3: Other regions - Gov Cloud, Singapore, UK West, W Europe. No timeline here yet.
With Azure, you’re become the beneficiary of a longstanding deep partnership between two companies that gets the enterprise – MSFT and SAP.
20+ years of deep partnership serving the same enterprise customer base
SQL is No. 1 DB for SAP
SAP betting on Azure with SuccessFactors
Microsoft investing in creating in-house SAP expertise to advise customers, help design and deploy workloads.
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In addition to us working with SAP, we’re bringing an ecosystem of SAP SIs across the globe for your projects.
Microsoft Azure commitment
To provide you the most performant and scalable cloud for your SAP applications including HANA
As you plot these journeys toward HANA and the Cloud, MSFT is support you on this transformation.
We’re committed to be market leader in enterprise class support SAP HANA
Let’s take a moment to understand why Azure is a perfect place for you SAP environments.
With Azure, you can
1. Accelerate app innovation through rapid app development and agility in the cloud.
2. Delivers integrated data and intelligence—data for rich insights to intelligence embedded within apps.
3. Run it all - open and flexible, where you can use the tools and technologies you already have and want to use. Hybrid is a core tenet for Azure
4. Not worry about security or compliance – 52 compliance certifications
Many organizations are choosing Azure for their HANA journey. We talked about Coats earlier. Let’s talk about another organization – Rockwell automation who were able to realize their transformative vision by adopting SAP HANA on Azure.
Rockwell chose to put their HANA deployments (SAP HANA Enterprise Edition -1.5TB) on Azure. They’ve been very satisfied with the performance and have found overall experience to be similar or better than on-premises production environment.
But more importantly, choosing Azure for HANA as well as other IoT needs has helped them realize their business vision for the connected enterprise and advanced data analytics.
