Apps and Infrastructure focus | Microsoft Azure

What to expect from our Speakers: Brendon De Meyer and Anton Van Rooyen

Talk about what the cloud is from a technical perspective
What does the cloud mean to the technology professional? (Change in skills, change in scale, the importance of fundamentals)
What does the cloud mean to the CFO? (Shift in spend, change in the budgets)
What does the cloud mean to the customer? (Wider service, instant delivery, potentially cheaper products)
What does the cloud mean to the person on the street? (Data protection, accessibility to technology)
Why is change management important for a business considering cloud.

The difference between migration and modernization
Why a lift and shift just isn’t enough anymore
Why PaaS offerings are the quickest, easiest modernization mechanisms
Don’t avoid SaaS just because you didn’t build it in house.
Be sure to consider hybrid multi cloud and specifically cloud edge such as Azure Stack
You won’t shut down your entire on-premise environment. Make peace with that, but treat it as a PoP for your business’ technology platforms

The shift from Capex to Opex
Use hyperscaler native solutions. 3rd Part and Marketplace solutions rack up huge costs. Use things like
Front Door and ATP to secure and create ways in and out.
Know your environment. Know what you will be moving and leaving. Talk about the assessment tools.
It is not a 1:1 relationship. Cloud will perform better for less. Don’t over provision

If your team knew how to get you into Azure, you would have been there already.
A specialist partner will help your teams get your Azure journey going and assist with hand holding until they are self sufficient.
Along with a CSP, you will need to upskill your team. Microsoft Learning has comprehensive solutions for this.
Everyone in the business should do a cloud introductory course. It helps with cloud adoption in the business and puts people at ease.

Apps and Infrastructure focus | Microsoft Azure