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Azure Migration Readiness Review · Prepare
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Know what moves to Azure, what it costs, and when.
A two-to-three-week review of your servers, databases, desktops, and apps that ends with an Azure architecture, a cost estimate, and a dated migration plan.
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- Two to three weeks, from $7,500
- One workload proven before you commit
- Monthly cost estimate
- Dated migration plan
Who it is for
For the servers nobody wants to touch.
- Nonprofits, foundations, and hospitals with on-premises servers or an aging closet data center.
- Teams on end-of-support Windows Server or older SQL Server.
- Organizations on VMware, legacy virtual desktops, or SAP facing a renewal or a hardware refresh.
- Leaders with data residency requirements from funders, regulators, or the board.
What you get
Eight deliverables, one dated plan.
Support status
A list of everything out of support, or about to be.
Landing zone and architecture
An Azure landing zone and architecture designed for your workloads.
Monthly cost estimate
With options to phase the move to budget.
Security baseline
A security baseline with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, designed in before the first workload moves.
Residency and sovereignty
Your data residency and sovereignty requirements, written down and designed in.
One workload proven
One workload moved or rebuilt to prove the plan.
Dated migration plan
Milestones your board can approve.
From $7,500, with the fixed fee in writing before you commit. Microsoft licensing and any Azure consumption are separate from the Centered Networks fee.
Microsoft programs may help fund or accelerate eligible engagements; eligibility is confirmed before scope.
Proof. Centered Networks led the Azure architecture for the National Mall Gateway; application development was delivered with project partners. Read the Microsoft customer story.
How it works
Two to three weeks, four steps.
The migration itself is scoped separately, and its timeline is set in the migration plan.
Scenarios in scope
Every kind of workload gets a path.
The review covers each scenario below and says which path fits each workload.
Servers and databases
Windows Server, Linux, and SQL Server, including anything at or near end of support. Each workload is marked to move as is, modernize, or rebuild.
VMware
VMware estates facing a renewal or a hardware refresh, with the option to move hosts as they are or modernize workload by workload.
Virtual desktops
Legacy VDI assessed for Azure Virtual Desktop or Windows 365. Cloud PC Quickstart runs the desktop pilot.
SAP
SAP workloads inventoried and sequenced in the plan, with the architecture and cutover steps they need.
Data residency and sovereignty
Requirements from funders, regulators, or the board, written down and designed into regions, access, and controls.
Related engagements
Where this leads next.
Prepare
Azure Well-Architected Review
Already on Azure? Review one production workload against the five pillars.
See Azure Well-Architected Review →Operate
CompleteCare Build
Build and run Azure applications once the workloads have moved.
See CompleteCare Build →Prepare
Data Estate Readiness Review
Modernize the databases and reporting that move with the servers.
See Data Estate Readiness Review →Common questions.
Will we lose data or go down during the move?
The review proves one workload first, and the plan schedules each cutover around your operations with a rollback step.
Will Azure cost more than our servers?
The review puts what your servers cost to run today side by side with the monthly Azure estimate, so you can compare before anything moves. The plan can phase the move so the basics go first and the rest follows when budget allows.
We run VMware (or SAP, or old virtual desktops). Is that in scope?
Yes. The review covers each of those, and the plan says which path fits each workload.
Get a dated plan for the servers nobody wants to touch.
Tell us what is running on premises and what is forcing the question: end of support, a VMware renewal, a hardware refresh, or a residency requirement. We confirm scope and access before scheduling.
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