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- Thank you, and greetings, everyone.
I'm Jeff Woolsey, and welcome to my session today,
migrating and modernizing servers to Azure.
We've got a packed agenda.
Today we'll discuss industry predictions,
why customers are moving to Azure, use cases,
success stories, and modernizing on-premises
with Azure Arc and Azure Stack HCI, so let's get started.
Two years ago, organizations were responding
to immediate needs created by the global pandemic.
Last year, we saw them recovering
by enabling effective hybrid work
and adopting emerging technologies to stay competitive.
Now the good news is, that we see many organizations
being very successful through the recovery
with new approaches utilizing the cloud and, in some cases,
looking to reimagine their businesses for the long term.
Many of you are thinking about planning what's next,
focusing on value, reducing cost,
and adapting business models and product offerings
is central to this change.
Migration and modernization
to the cloud have several triggers
when our users think about their digital transformation.
I'm going to focus on a few, rapidly scaling apps
and infrastructure to meet surge demand.
Several industries, such as healthcare, retail
have been seeing a surge in demand.
They're finding that their existing systems
and solutions just can't keep up.
Application innovation and faster time to market,
the ability to innovate fast was key
to several businesses surviving lockdowns
and changes in consumer spending patterns,
such as enabling curbside pickup in apps,
and enabling telehealth visits for medical needs.
And finally, enabling hybrid work.
With lockdowns and an increasingly hybrid workforce,
cloud adoption is key to maintaining productivity
and business continuity wherever the workforce resides.
So, why are customers moving to Azure?
Well, here are a few reasons.
Enterprise-grade infrastructure for less.
With Azure you can future-proof your business and IT
by moving to best-in-class,
highly resilient cloud infrastructure
that costs up to five times less than AWS.
You can move on your terms with hybrid flexibility.
We understand that your investments will span cloud
and on-premises for the foreseeable future.
Azure hybrid cloud solutions help you reuse, manage,
and govern your assets consistently
across hybrid environments with Azure Arc.
You can protect your valuable assets
with trusted cloud security.
With Azure, we've got your back.
Get security from the ground up,
backed by experts and proactive compliance.
With AI-infused security intelligence,
we help you detect and protect your investments
against rapidly evolving cybersecurity threats.
Now, speaking of security, in July 2021,
we announced expanded free Extended Security Updates
to include Windows Server and SQL Server
when extended support for 2012 and 2012 R2 releases
come to an end.
You can migrate your Windows Server and SQL 2012 workloads
to Azure and get free, that's right,
free Extended Security Updates.
Now, once they're in Azure, they can take advantage
of services such as Azure Automanage, App Service,
Azure VMware Solutions, Azure Virtual Desktop,
and Azure Kubernetes Service to modernize these workloads.
Similarly, for the data layer, once you migrate
to Azure SQL Managed Instance,
patching an upgrade will be a thing of the past.
It's done automatically.
For users that are running their workloads on-premises
and cannot meet the end of support deadline,
there are two support options.
You have the option to purchase extended security updates
for Windows Server and SQL Server 2012,
or you can deploy these on Azure Stack HCI,
where these Extended Security Updates are included.
Now, many users are already taking advantage
of Azure's commitment to security and compliance
and have moved to Azure Protect
their 2008 and 2008 R2 workloads
with free Extended Security Updates.
Now for those users who need just a little bit more time
to upgrade and modernize their Windows Server
and SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 on Azure,
we will now provide one additional year
of Extended Security Updates only on Azure.
Free Extended Security Updates are one of many reasons
to migrate to Azure.
Other is enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure.
When we say enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure,
here are just a few stats.
Azure provides our customers massive cloud scale
with 69 Azure regions, more than AWS and GCP combined.
Azure can support the largest scale of workloads
in the world, supporting up to, get this,
960 CPU threads and up to 24 terabytes of RAM.
Now, if you don't need that configuration,
we have over 700 VM sizes to choose from,
and of course, high availability, that's a given.
Our promise is four nines, 99.99% uptime
for a single instance VM, but in fact,
the VM uptime is 99.996,
based on the rolling 12-month average,
which is better than what's promised.
The security of our cloud infrastructure is unmatched
in the industry, with over $1 billion in annual investments
and over 3,500 security experts.
So, what can you run on this infrastructure?
Well, whatever you'd like.
Because of this world-class infrastructure,
Azure can support all your workloads,
such as Azure Virtual Desktop.
You get the best multi-session experience
without the hassle of setting up VDI brokers
or managing hardware.
For Microsoft workloads like Windows Server and SQL Server,
Azure provides the lowest total cost of ownership.
Windows Server is up to five times less expensive
than AWS with the Azure Hybrid Benefit.
Furthermore, Azure Automanage can help you simplify
your IT operations and deliver some killer functionality,
like SMB over QUIC,
Azure Extended Networking and Hotpatching,
so you can patch your VMs without downtime.
Now, do you need to run Linux, Windows, VMs, containers?
We've got you covered.
In fact, more than 50% of Azure VMs run Linux,
and we continue to see tremendous growth.
Next, we have specialized workloads like VMware, Oracle,
NetApp, Cray, and yes, SAP.
Microsoft and SAP have over a 25-year partnership
with an extensive partner ecosystem.
It's no wonder that SAP customers broadly favor Azure.
Azure is also the most trusted cloud
with the most Fortune 500 companies running on Azure,
and most of them choosing Azure
for their most complex SAP landscapes.
In fact, SAP is so trusted and reliable
that, of course, both Microsoft and SAP,
we run our own internal business processes on SAP on Azure.
Another example is Chobani.
Chobani is a producer of delicious, nutritious food.
I myself love some Almond Coco Loco myself.
Chobani chose SAP S/4HANA as its ERP system,
and with its current partner Khoj Information Technology,
Chobani has further enhanced SAP on Azure
by introducing new capabilities
to support business analytics
and disaster recovery initiatives.
Next, let's discuss a critical
and very popular Azure service, Azure Virtual Desktop.
Now, traditional VDI, or virtual desktop infrastructure,
can be complex.
The best way to modernize VDI is in the cloud
with Azure Virtual Desktop.
With Azure Virtual Desktop, you can give users access
to Windows 10 or 11 from anywhere
with the built-in intelligent security options
of the Microsoft cloud.
We manage the underlying infrastructure and make it easy
for you to deploy and scale new users in minutes,
and, of course, it's Windows multi-session,
so you can optimize multiple desktops per Azure VM
for maximum cost-effectiveness.
In fact, you can check out this Forrester study,
"The Total Economic Impact
of Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop,"
where customers found a 59% cost savings
on deployment and maintenance,
and a 210% ROI over traditional on-premises solutions.
One example of Azure Virtual Desktop success has been
at Imperial College in London.
During the COVID-19 lockdown, Imperial College London
had to provide 20,000 students remote classes
and access to 450 proprietary apps installed
on 3,500 on-campus computers.
Imperial College uses Azure Virtual Desktop
for remote learning and Windows Enterprise multi-session
for high utilization of virtual machines
and pooling four users per VM.
Instructors can then configure special computer environments
using Azure Lab Services.
Now with this solution,
Imperial College provides remote learning
in a Windows desktop environment that students can access
regardless of their locations or device types.
Using only one quarter of the VMs normally required,
it raises utilization while lowering compute costs.
Now you may be thinking, "Hey, Jeff, this is great
for workloads, I can move to the cloud,
but my organization has workloads
that need to stay on-premises for data sovereignty,
regulatory, or latency reasons."
No problem.
This leads directly to what we're doing
with Azure Stack HCI and Azure Arc.
Our mission with Azure Stack HCI and Azure Arc
is to deliver the best of Azure to you on your servers
that you control with your preferred tools on your premises.
Azure Stack HCI is a hyperconverged solution,
which means compute, networking, and storage
are all delivered as a solution.
Azure Stack HCI solutions can start as small as two nodes,
small enough to fit in a backpack,
and scale all the way up to data center solutions.
Azure Stack HCI is also delivered as an Azure service.
This means that once you register your Azure Stack HCI,
it's a process that takes less than a minute,
you will see your Azure Stack HCI in the Azure Portal,
and be able to use Azure management tools
such as the Azure Portal, CLI, SDK,
or even the Azure mobile app.
You can go to the Azure mobile app
and enter the name of an Azure Stack HCI cluster,
such as this one called Texas, and here it is.
I can see all the resources, subscriptions,
and resource groups because everything is taggable.
Everything is globally searchable, everything flows
through the same role-based access control system,
regardless of whether it's in the cloud
or on-premises with Azure Stack HCI.
Now, we covered a lot, so let me sum up how you can migrate
and modernize to Azure on your terms.
The first step is adopting a hybrid strategy
is unified operations and management with Azure Arc.
For workloads that run outside of Azure,
you can onboard all these resources to Azure with Azure Arc,
including Windows, Linux,
SQL Servers, and Kubernetes clusters.
Once you've done that,
you can easily extend management services like Azure Policy,
Azure Monitor, Azure Security Center, Sentinel,
so you can manage, govern, and secure your hybrid
and multi-cloud environments consistently.
The second step is building cloud-native apps
and run Azure services anywhere.
More than ever, organizations are building modern apps
using Kubernetes containers across cloud,
on-premises, and the edge.
With Azure Arc, right from the Azure Portal,
customers can deploy a common set
of Kubernetes configurations to their clusters,
wherever they are, consistently and at scale.
Azure Arc enables developers to centrally code
and deploy cloud-native applications securely
to any Kubernetes cluster using GitOps.
The third step is modernize your data estate
with Azure data services.
We understand there are going to be times you need aspects
of your Azure applications and services
to run locally within an environment.
With Arc-enabled data services,
you get an evergreen SQL deployment
that is always up-to-date.
This full automation of updates also applies
to Postgres databases running on Azure Arc,
and you can manage data assets running on-premises
alongside those running in Azure
using the same familiar tools like Azure Portal,
Azure Data Studio, and Azure CLI,
and you get the automation and elasticity support
even for data workloads running in places
where you don't have continuous connection
to public clouds or any connection at all.
Finally, modernize your data center
with our Azure Stack portfolio.
We can help bring our Azure services directly
to your data center, to your edge, your branch office,
with Azure Stack HCI.
Azure Stack HCI is delivered as an Azure service.
This means that once you log in
and register your Azure Stack HCI, it automatically appears
in the Azure Portal.
No scripts to run, no agents to maintain
because Azure is integrated.
Couple this with Secured-core,
and you have industry-leading security,
and with that, I want to thank you very much for your time.
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