In this post, KiZAN will discuss the strategy and benefit for rehosting workloads to Microsoft Azure using a real-world scenario.
To address these concerns and meet the long-term vision, KiZAN recommends the public school district start with the REHOST option from the 5-R's rationalization methodology.
The concept of the 5-R's rationalization methodology is reviewed in more detail in a previous blog post. REHOST is focused on migrating servers to the cloud to reduce the hardware footprint and free up capacity.
Before diving into the REHOST approach, let's first take a step back to understand why this path was chosen and what it really means in a real-world scenario.
To help the customer reach the evolutionary cloud-based data solutions this customer wishes to deploy, there are immediate concerns to address. Let’s break them down:
1. The IT team’s time is currently taken up with operating the current state of the environment (which includes significant fire fighting with outdated hardware).
2. Some virtualization hosts that reside in the customer datacenter currently hosting important databases have reached the end of support. For compliance and security reasons, this must be addressed as soon as possible.
3. Newer virtualization hosts in the customer datacenter have reached their capacity threshold and the purchasing of new hardware is not only counterproductive to the organization’s goal to be cloud-first but also time-consuming.
The last point is worth expounding on further. REHOST for this customer (and many customers that KiZAN has worked with through datacenter modernization) does not mean there will be no on-premises footprint.
Most of KiZAN’s customers live in a “hybrid” state where their IT staff maintains a small footprint of on-premises hardware and cloud-based resources. The value of REHOST in this case is security and capacity-centric. The customer hosts what must be on-premises while freeing up space with the rapid on-demand nature of cloud computing.
In the next post, KiZAN will review the tools and approach used to help this customer perform the REHOST to Azure.
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