Learn best practices, strategies, and real-world guidance to migrate and modernize workloads on Microsoft Azure, including challenges, cloud readiness, migration frameworks, and SoftwareOne offerings. This webinar provides a comprehensive breakdown of how organizations can successfully prepare for their migration and modernization journey to Microsoft Azure. Tracy opened the session with a discussion on global cloud adoption trends and the growing need to modernize legacy workloads to support secure, scalable cloud environments. Speakers Naufal and Dibyo walked participants through the end-to-end Azure migration lifecycle—covering IT challenges, cloud readiness, modernization frameworks, Azure tools, and SoftwareOne’s offerings. They highlighted current IT pain points such as security limitations of on‑premises systems, increasing AI adoption demands, cost constraints, and the need for more flexible infrastructure. The session compared on‑prem responsibilities versus Microsoft Azure models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), demonstrating how cloud adoption significantly reduces operational overhead. Attendees were introduced to Microsoft’s 6R migration strategy: Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Rearchitect, Rebuild, and Retire—explaining how each path applies depending on workload complexity and business goals. A deep dive into Azure Migrate showcased how Microsoft’s flagship tool automates environment discovery, assessment, dependency mapping, and readiness scoring. The webinar also explored modernization using GitHub Copilot for App Modernization, enabling automated code assessment, framework upgrades, and transformation for .NET and Java applications to PaaS services like Azure App Service or AKS. The speakers presented practical migration scenarios across Windows, Linux, Oracle, VMware, SAP, and database workloads, including pathways to Azure SQL Managed Instance, PostgreSQL, and Oracle Database on Azure. Security modernization was highlighted through platforms such as Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Firewall, Front Door, DDoS protection, and Microsoft Sentinel for SIEM and threat hunting. The session concluded with the business impact of cloud adoption—reduced costs, OPEX-driven financial models, accelerated innovation cycles, and elevated IT focus on digital transformation. SoftwareOne wrapped up by presenting the Azure Accelerate Workshop, a free engagement providing cost analysis, readiness assessments, and migration roadmaps. A Q&A followed, addressing modernization approaches for .NET/Java apps and typical code‑change requirements for legacy monoliths.
