Azure Local Strategy

Evaluate Azure Local, Azure Arc, and hybrid Azure services to modernize infrastructure, reduce virtualization costs, and build a scalable hybrid cloud strategy.

Modernizing infrastructure while meeting demands of workloads that must remain on-premises is a growing challenge for many organizations. The Azure Local Strategy Workshop helps IT leaders evaluate how Microsoft Azure Local can extend the capabilities of Azure inside their datacenter, edge environments, or Colocation while enabling a consistent cloud operating model.

During this engagement, TierPoint cloud architects assess your current infrastructure, and workload requirements to determine where Azure Local, Azure Arc, and Azure hybrid services can deliver the most value.

By the end of the workshop, you will gain a clear understanding and a plan to leverage Azure Local to support infrastructure modernization, reduce virtualization costs, and enable a secure, scalable hybrid cloud architecture built on Microsoft Azure technologies, in your datacenter.

What You Will Receive

• Discovery Data Document: A documented current-state overview aligned to the engagement focus.
• Requirements Matrix Document: A consolidated and defined list of your solution requirements.
• Conceptual Design Document: A future-state conceptual solution design with collaboratively formulated documented design decisions.
• Scope and Approach Document: An executive-ready plan for adoption including:
  • Scope of project(s) required
  • Key dependencies and roadmap
  • Documentation of any known risks
  • Financial considerations such as projected adoption costs and ROI

Agenda

• Week 0 — Engagement Kickoff: Review goals, scope, resources, and align desired outcomes.
• Week 1 — Discovery: Prepare discovery tools and initiate data gathering.
• Week 2 — Requirements Gathering and Solution Design Sessions: Work with stakeholders to align on business needs, understand solutions aligned to requirements, and finalize conceptual design decisions.
• Week 3 — Scope and Approach Alignment: Align on scope, approach, team, risk, roadmap, and financials.

What This Enables

• An understanding of the current environment and current needs.
• Adoption of technology solutions that realize business value.
• Efficient and effective internal and external alignment.
• Reduced cost of solution adoption.
• Faster solution benefit realization