Thank you to all that attending my talk at the Azurelive event, below you can find further learning resources and if you are looking to get a copy of the presentation you can download a copy here
Azure is vast and there is a lot of things that you as an individual need to think about as you embark on our Azure learning journey and from an organisation stand point there is a lot to think about as well. Below is some information and resources to help you on that journey.
You can sign up to an Azure Subscription with the link below. You will get $200 (US Dollars) to explore Azure for 30 days and then have access to a number of free services for 12 months.
- Azure Migrate Documentation
- Dependency Analysis overview
- Azure Migrate - replicate with ExpressRoute
During this stage of your migration project you should be aiming to look at what is within your environment from a technology point of view and also looking to understand your business's objectives and long term goals.
At this stage of the project you should be staring to use the information you gathered at the previous stage to design and plan out the migration aligning with the business objectives.
- Azure Migrate: Best practices for creating assessments
- Think about operations management for your new cloud environment
- Design the right landing zone for your environment
- Take advantage of Azure Reservation savings
- Save on Windows & SQL licensing with Azure Hybrid Benefit
This is the stage where all your planning comes into play, you start to move your workloads! This will be a tense period, and remember to take the chance after every workload migration to learn and improve the next workload migration.
This is the stage of the project that will morph into your business as usual operation practices, it's the stage where you grow and learn as an organisation in the cloud and start to improve things and learn new things.
Learn from others experience of adoption of cloud within their IT strategy:
Work towards Microsoft certifications using free training resources on Microsoft Learn:
- Understand the different Microsoft certification paths
- Microsoft Learn: Cloud Migration Collection
- Glasgow Azure User Group
Attend free training day run by Microsoft to help learn and ask questions:
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