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The migration that stalled in the hybrid middle
The move to Azure started eighteen months ago. Compute went first and went fine. Then came the file servers, the line-of-business app with the vendor agent, and the SQL Server nobody fully owns, and the migration quietly stopped. Two estates now run in parallel, each billed in full, and every change has to be made twice.
What we investigate
- What remains on-premises, and what it's coupled to
- Identity: Entra Connect topology, and what breaks if sync does
- The SQL estate: which databases fit Managed Instance, SQL Database, or a VM
- Network paths: ExpressRoute or VPN, DNS, and the latencies that matter
- Which workloads should not migrate at all
Typical deliverables
- A migration map with the stalled dependencies named
- A sequencing plan that moves coupled systems together
- Cutover rehearsals with tested rollback for the risky moves
- A decision per remaining workload: move, replace, or retire
What typically gets better
- The parallel-running window shrinks, and with it the double bill
- Each remaining move has an owner, a date, and a rollback
- Some workloads get retired instead of migrated, which nobody regrets
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