Making the

Business Case for

Moving to the Cloud
 Why companies are moving to the cloud

• Enterprises are accelerating digital transformation

• The next era of business is here

• Why move now?

Security, compliance, management, an
• Moving from CAPEX to OPEX? d operational benefits
Cloud migration and modernization concepts

Topics
• Security benefits

• Compliance and management benefits

• Understanding cloud services
• Operational benefits
• Understanding migration and modernization

• Common migration andmodernization projects Find additional support and resources

• Prioritizing cloud migrationand modernization • Readiness

• Migration and modernization approaches • Move forward with confidence

• Steps for migrating and modernizing to the cloud

Why companies are
moving to the cloud
Enterprises are accelerating
digital transformation

50%
of organizations report that their
66%
of surveyed organizations
workloads and data are in the public reported that their actual
cloud, and they expect that number cloud usage in the past year
to increase in the coming year has been higher than planned

Discover more resources to help build your cloud business case here

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 Prioritize investment and people

The next era

by fueling new growth initiatives to stay ahead of the curve

of business Remodel business operations

by increasing supply chain efficiency and digital

is here
resilience for increased productivity

Build the right skills and culture

IT leaders are taking key steps by upskilling people and cultivating a community
that embraces agility and innovation
to stay ahead of the curve.

Reduce technical debt

by accelerating IT and app modernization that
aligns with your business objectives
 Cash flow challenges, Cybersecurity threats
CAPEX to OPEX

Why move Datacenter

contract expiry
Business continuity

now? Migration triggers

Many factors can influence

the decision to modernize Modernization
Rapidly scale
or migrate to the cloud. Enabling triggers
applications and
remote work infrastructure
Understand the top
triggers and align goals
and milestones.

Faster time Application

to market innovation
Digital
transformation
Moving from CAPEX to OPEX?
Many organizations want to move to the cloud in order to move IT
expenses from capital expenditures to operational expenditures.

Here are some factors to consider:

CAPEX OPEX

Can take advantage of amortization and Pay-per-use allows enterprises to only pay for what
depreciation of investments over an extended they use and makes it easy to scale up or down.
period of time.
Less investment, operating costs, and risk; speeds
Requires large up-front investment leading to a up budgeting process.
lengthy approval process and higher risk.
Commitment-based models (lock in for a year or
Difficult to estimate future needs—enterprises three years) diminish benefits of OPEX.
often have to overprovision to be on the safe side.

IDC predicts that by 2023, 80 percent of organizations Find more resources on cloud economics here
using the cloud will establish a FinOps function to
optimize cloud resources and maximize value.

Source: IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2022 Predictions Positives Negatives

Cloud migration and
modernization concepts
Understanding cloud services:
SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS
Software as a service (SaaS) Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) Platform as a service (PaaS)
allows users to connect to and use is an instant computing infrastructure, is a complete development and
cloud-based apps over the internet— provisioned and managed over the deployment environment in the cloud.
for example, email, calendars, and internet. It quickly scales up and down Its resources enable you to deliver
office tools like Microsoft 365. with demand, letting you pay only for everything from cloud-based apps to
what you use. cloud-enabled enterprise applications.

Advantages of SaaS Advantages of IaaS Advantages of PaaS

• Gain access to sophisticated • Quickly set up and dismantle test • Cut coding time.
applications. and development environments.
• Develop for multiple platforms,
• Easily mobilize your workforce. • Improve business continuity and including mobile.
disaster recovery.
• Access app data from anywhere. • Support geographically
• Free up your team to focus on distributed development teams.
innovation rather than on IT
infrastructure.
Understanding migration and modernization
From the process to the benefits, learn how—and why—IT leaders prioritize moving to the cloud.

Defining migration and modernization Migration and modernization decision factors

What is the immediate

Migration business need?
Moving applications, • Cost optimization, flipping
infrastructure, and data CAPEX to OPEX
from a company’s • Realize cloud benefits quickly
datacenter to public
cloud infrastructure
How hard is it to do?
• Complexity, level of skilling or
retraining of staff needed
On-premises • Cost and resources needed to
Applications, data, Modernization refactor or rebuild
infrastructure Updating existing
applications for newer Longer-term
computing approaches,
application frameworks,
business goals?
and use of cloud-native
technologies
• Time to market, app innovation,
productivity, app dev velocity
Prioritizing cloud migration
and modernization
Where does your cloud adoption journey begin?
Depending if your apps are new, existing, or not custom-built, there’s different options for how you proceed forward.

New apps Existing apps

Cloud native Migrate Modernize Replace Stay on-prem

Serverless IaaS Containers | PaaS SaaS | Low code Cloud connected

Benefits

Migrate first, modernize later Modernize during the move

• Reduce datacenter footprint quickly • Faster time to market

• Lower capital expenses • Increased app innovation
• Immediate compatibility—IaaS VMs • Enhanced productivity
• Test, optimize to ensure cloud-readiness • Greater app dev velocity
Migration and modernization approaches
Different criteria will inform which approach is best for your business.

Approach Description Common Business Drivers Quantitative Considerations Qualitative Considerations

Move workloads to virtual Reduce capital expense VM size (CPU, memory, storage) Tolerance for change
machines in the cloud with Free up datacenter space Dependencies (network traffic) Business priorities
Rehost minimal change to overall
Achieve rapid ROI in the cloud Asset compatibility Critical business events
architecture
Process dependencies

Make minimal changes to Faster and shorter updates Application asset size Continued business investments
optimize for the cloud Code portability (CPU, memory, storage) Bursting options/timelines
for IaaS and PaaS environments
Refactor Greater cloud efficiency (resources, speed cost) Dependencies (network traffic) Business process dependencies
User traffic (page views, time on page, load time)
Development platform (languages, data platform, middle-tier services)

Modify existing app Application scale and agility Application asset size (CPU, memory, storage) Growing business investments
architecture/code to optimize Easier adoption of new cloud capabilities Dependencies (network traffic) Operating costs
Rearchitect for the cloud
Mix of technology stacks User traffic (page views, time on page, load time) Potential feedback loops and DevOps investments
Development platform (languages, data platform, middle-tier services)

Rebuild applications from Accelerate innovation Application asset size (CPU, memory, storage) Declining end-user satisfaction
scratch using cloud-native Build apps faster Dependencies (network traffic) Business processes limited by functionality
Rebuild technologies
Reduce operational cost User traffic (page views, time on page, load time) Potential cost, experience, or revenue gains
Development platform (languages, data platform, middle-tier services)

Leverage an existing SaaS Standardize around industry-best practices General operating cost reductions Cost-benefit analysis of the current architecture
application that provides the Accelerate adoption of business process–driven approaches VM size (CPU, memory, storage) versus a SaaS solution
necessary functionality for the
Replace Reallocate development investments into applications Dependencies (network traffic) Business process maps
hosted app
that create competitive differentiation or advantages Assets to be retired Data schemas
Custom or automated processes
Steps for migrating and
modernizing to the cloud
While the cloud adoption journey can vary for different organizations,
it can help to break your cloud migration project into phases:

Planning Implementation Operations

Migration and modernization waves

Take an iterative approach with each wave Govern
Define strategy comprising a defined set of workloads
Align stakeholders, Establish cloud usage
define strategy, and standards and guard-
Migrate rails and enable cloud
engage a partner
budget tracking

Plan
Discover and assess Ready Adopt Manage
your environment, Get full visibility
Build out landing zone, Migrate and modernize
build a business case and control your
upskill your staff, and iteratively using built-in
and a holistic plan security posture
review best practices tools and automation

Modernize

The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework is a free resource the features best practices, documentation, and tools to successfully achieve your short and long-term objectives.
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Why migrate and
modernize to Azure?
Future-proof your business with Azure
Move on your terms with hybrid flexibility.

Innovate faster with a Enterprise-grade

fully managed platform infrastructure for less

Move on your terms with hybrid flexibility

Protect your most valuable assets with trusted cloud security

Comprehensive programs to help customers move with confidence

Navigate complex IT environments
Microsoft Azure is designed with a hybrid strategy to help you solve common challenges.

100s–1,000s of apps Diverse infrastructure Hybrid and multicloud

VMs Databases Datacenters Hosters

Branch OEM
Containers Serverless hardware
offices

IoT devices Edge

• Regulatory and data sovereignty

• Low latency and edge workloads
Why choose a hybrid
and multicloud strategy? • Application and datacenter modernization
• Business continuity and resilience
• Freedom to use more than one public cloud
Manage complex IT environments
seamlessly as you move
IT investments may span cloud and on-premises for the foreseeable future.
Azure hybrid cloud solutions can help reuse, manage, and govern assets across hybrid environments.

Single control plane with Azure Arc

89%
of organizations use a
hybrid or multicloud
approach. Azure helps ease
the complexity of
managing and governing
this type of environment.

Bring Azure services Modernize datacenters Extend to the edge

to any infrastructure with Azure Stack with Azure IoT

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Security, compliance, management,
and operational benefits
 Security is foundational for Microsoft:

Security benefits
Safeguard your business assets
with multilayered security tools.

 Prepare for regulatory challenges with the broadest set of cloud

compliance certifications from Azure compliance offerings

 Secure and manage identities, connect your remote workforce,

and protect your users from 99.9 percent of identity attacks
using Azure Active Directory

$1B+ annual investment

3,500+ security experts

8T+ signals analyzed for intelligence

Compliance and
management benefits 91 compliance offerings

$4.29
Azure helps customers regulatory challenges with
the right modernization and migration tools.
million/year
 Increase the efficiency and productivity of managing
compliance tools, the compliance environment, and auditing. average value achieved by leveraging
cloud IaaS for compliance*
 Reduce costs of compliance-related penalties.

 Improve agility in responding to new and ever-changing

national and international regulations.

 Enhance the overall productivity of auditing and compliance

teams as well as IT support.

*IDC: Microsoft Azure Is Helping Organizations Manage Regulatory

Challenges More Effectively, May 2019
Operational benefits
90%
Expedite operational capacity
while reducing IT overhead costs.

 Gain efficiencies.
Reduction in datacenter support
needs by Year 3*
 Raise reliability.

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

conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft, August 2017
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Readiness
Resources for learning and preparing your team for cloud adoption

Cloud concepts Microsoft Learn for migration Certification paths

This hour-long beginner-level course Grow and build the skills you need A resource for locating certification
covers the definition of cloud computing to confidently migrate application paths for those interested in taking
and different types of cloud services and workloads and data to Azure. their learning to the next level.
cloud deployment models.

Azure fundamentals Organizational readiness Accelerate your migration and moderniz

ation journey to Azure—Learn
Get started with an Azure webinar, Prepare for your migration with the
which can be viewed live (includes a Strategic Migration Assessment Take advantage of fully managed
live Q & A session) or on-demand. and Readiness Tool (SMART). services in Azure to reduce operational
burden, scale on demand, and focus on
more important tasks.
 Move forward with confidence
The Azure Migration and Modernization Program offers support every step of the way.

Accelerate your cloud journey with the right mix of resources and expert help

Proven approach: Cost-effective Technical Free tools/ In-depth assistance Expert help Support
Microsoft Cloud offers and skill building automation: from FastTrack for from specialized environmentally
Adoption Framework incentives Azure Migrate Azure engineers service partners sustainable
and Well-Architected initiatives
Framework

Join the Azure Migration

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Q2. What is Reuter challenges with managed services providers (MSPs)?
Q3. What are the benefits for Reuter in cloud migration?

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