Migrate and Modernize Deployment to Microsoft Azure

Accelerate your move to Azure with AI-driven migration and modernization to minimize disruption, reduce costs, and unlock a future-ready cloud foundation.

Migrating and modernizing applications is essential to achieving business transformation goals. Azure enables greater agility, AI-ready data, end-to-end security, and optimized cost and performance—but executing a smooth migration without disrupting operations remains complex and risky.

Choose Rackspace for a faster, smarter Azure migration. With AI-driven discovery and automation, we minimize manual effort and deliver transformation outcomes in a single engagement—so you can start realizing value sooner.

Experts Dedicated to Your Success

We bring proven expertise to every Azure migration. Our certified consultants, architects, and engineers deliver end-to-end guidance to minimize risk and disruption. No matter the size or complexity of your environment, we ensure a seamless migration—so you can move forward with confidence.

Workloads we migrate and modernize: Windows Server | SQL Server | Linux | .NET | Java | VMware | Oracle | SAP

Rackspace supports the full spectrum of migration and modernization strategies using the 6R framework:

• Rehost: Move applications to Azure without altering code, using Azure Virtual Machines or Azure VMware Solution (AVS)
• Replatform: Migrate to Azure PaaS with minimal code changes for improved performance
• Refactor: Modify applications to leverage cloud-native capabilities and Azure services
• Rebuild: Redesign applications using modern development practices and cloud-native technologies
• Retire: Decommission obsolete applications to reduce operational overhead
• Retain: Keep specific workloads on-premises where business requirements dictate

AI-Powered Migration Framework

Rackspace deploys a dedicated team of experts for each cloud migration, enhanced by AI-driven tooling that accelerates every phase. Using Dr. Migrate, Azure Migrate, and GitHub Copilot for app modernization, we deliver complete infrastructure inventory in days instead of months, with detailed dependency mapping and risk‑optimized sequencing.

Key Benefits

Maximize Business Agility: Gain flexibility, speed, and scalability to adapt to changing market demands. Azure VMware Solution enables efficient rehosting and modernization without costly re-architecture.

Unify Data for AI Innovation: Build a strong foundation for AI at scale. Fully managed databases—Azure SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, and Azure Cosmos DB—enhance data management and governance, while Azure Arc supports hybrid database migrations.

Security from Code to Cloud: Azure delivers built-in, multilayered protection across identity, threat detection, encryption, and networking. Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides unified security management across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Best-in-Class Cost and Performance: Move from large upfront investments to flexible, pay-as-you-go consumption. Azure Hybrid Benefit allows reuse of existing Windows Server and SQL Server licenses to reduce cloud costs.

Deliverables

• Complete infrastructure inventory
• Business case with TCO analysis and benchmarks
• Landing zone setup/review (Rackspace Base Camp for Azure)
• Risk-optimized migration sequence with dependency mapping
• Prioritized migration roadmap with measurable business outcomes
• Quick-win modernization opportunities identified
• Migrated and/or modernized workloads

Database modernization and optimization are available as a follow-up engagement to further enhance performance and cost efficiency post-migration.