Learn How to Migrate Windows Servers to Azure
Migrating your Windows servers to Azure provides a flexible, secure and scalable infrastructure that enables agility, cost efficiency and innovation.
In this episode of the Azure Enablement Show, Aaron and Priyanka discuss the benefits of server migration and Priyanka shares a variety of free resources from Microsoft that will help you learn the skills you’ll need to have to be successful.
Resources
• CLOUD SKILLS CHALLENGE: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator https://aka.ms/azenable/161/01
• Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Migrate and Secure Windows Server and SQL Server Workloads https://aka.ms/azenable/161/02
• Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Days: Fundamentals https://aka.ms/azenable/161/03
• APPLIED SKILLS: Secure storage for Azure Files and Azure Blob Storage https://aka.ms/azenable/161/04
• APPLIED SKILLS: Configure secure access to your workloads using Azure networking https://aka.ms/azenable/161/05
• APPLIED SKILLS: Deploy and configure Azure Monitor https://aka.ms/azenable/161/06
• Blog: Maximize your business potential: Migrate your Windows Server to Azure with expert resources https://aka.ms/azenable/161/07
• Exam AZ-800: Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure https://aka.ms/azenable/161/08
• Explore more cloud enablement resources! https://www.azure.com/enablement
Related episodes
• Overview of Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure https://aka.ms/azenable/adopt-intro1
• What’s new in the Well-Architected Framework https://aka.ms/azenable/143
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:46 Benefits of migration
1:57 More than a technical shift
2:37 Skilling resources
3:17 Cloud Skills Challenges
4:37 AZ 800 Certification
5:02 Virtual Training Days
6:28 More Resources
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We are a small company with 750+ employees and switched to Azure many years ago, but still operated our own small server room. And the strategy is clear: we are moving away(!) from Azure again. The reason is very simple: Microsoft published a long time ago that they want to squeeze more money out of customers and M$ has managed to do just that: M$ has removed standard functions such as security components from the products and now you have to pay separately if you want the services on Azure to be secure! How perverse is that: When Microsoft introduced Azure, M$ advertised that the cloud was more secure than its own data center. They advertised “Security at every step”. Today they say: you only get security if you pay extra for it.
We should migrate servers to Azure? Never. Why? Microsoft's greed is more important than good, professional and secure products. This can already be seen in Office 365: we have been paying around 30 times more than for Office 2003 for years, but we are constantly working with beta versions, testing for Microsoft and thousands of error messages are simply ignored by M$, because we know it: we still have reported errors(!) even after years.