Many customers have huge on-premises footprints of Windows Server and SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2, but these products are rapidly approaching End of Support (EOS). This session is designed to help customers understand the risks of running unsupported software and presents great options for using EOS to modernize in Azure or on-premises.

September 2019

• Database administrators
• IT professionals
• Enterprise architects

This workshop only has a whiteboard design session at this time, please see below for abstract.

In this whiteboard design session, you will work with a group to look at the process of migrating workloads to Azure.

At the end of this whiteboard design session, you will leave with the information needed to develop a solid migration plan to keep mission-critical apps and data protected as they are transitioned and modernized. Topics covered will include how to get an inventory of a 2008 server environment, how to categorize 2008 workloads and evaluate the best option for each category, migration and upgrade tools available, TCO analysis tools, offers available from Microsoft to leverage existing licenses and innovations of recent product updates, licensing and technologies.

There is no hands-on lab for the workshop.

• Azure Migrate
• Azure Database Migration Service
• Azure Cost Management
• Azure TCO Calculator

Data Modernization to Azure

• MCW