Microsoft Azure is the default cloud for Microsoft-first UAE businesses. Migration options span lift-and-shift (fastest, lowest risk), refactor (better cost, some rewrite), and modernise (full rewrite, best-fit for cloud). We deliver Azure migrations to UAE North and UAE Central regions with landing-zone discipline, cost-governance, and post-migration optimisation.
Azure Migrate-led discovery of on-prem workloads, dependency mapping, sizing recommendations, migration-approach selection per workload.
Subscription design, management groups, hub-and-spoke network, RBAC model, policy enforcement. Foundation for all subsequent deployments.
Server migration with minimal change. Fastest, lowest risk, immediate cloud benefits without code rewrite.
Move workloads to managed services (Azure SQL, AKS, App Service). Better cost, better operations, some workload-specific work required.
Full cloud-native rebuild for workloads with strategic priority. Microservices, serverless, AI integration. Highest investment, highest payoff.
Reserved instances, Azure Hybrid Benefit, savings plans, cost allocation tags, budgets, alerts. Most clients reclaim 20-40% post-migration cost.
Microsoft Entra ID, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Key Vault, conditional access. Security from day one, not retrofitted.
Performance tuning, right-sizing, cost optimisation cycles, reliability improvements. Migration is not the end; it is the start.
We are a Microsoft CSP partner; Azure consumption flows through us with AED invoicing. Same team that delivers the migration also operates the environment.
Workload placement defaults to UAE North or UAE Central based on data residency. Cross-region replication where DR requires. No accidental EU/US placement.
Not all workloads should be lift-and-shifted. We assess each workload and recommend the right approach (lift-and-shift, refactor, modernise, retire, retain) based on business value and feasibility.
Reserved instances and Hybrid Benefit applied during migration, not as afterthought. Most clients see actual Azure spend 20-40% lower than initial estimates.
Move from owned/colocated datacentre to Azure. Datacentre contract expiring; cloud strategically chosen.
Migrate specific workload (e.g., legacy ERP, file servers, SharePoint farm) to Azure managed equivalents.
Azure as DR target for on-premise primary. Cost-effective alternative to second datacentre.
Consolidate AWS/GCP/Azure into Azure-first for Microsoft-first organisations.
New customer-facing or internal application built cloud-native on Azure from start.
Data-residency or regulator-mandated move to UAE-region cloud.
| Feature | Lift-and-shift | Refactor | Modernise |
|---|---|---|---|
Code change required | None | Minimal | Significant |
Time to migrate | Weeks | Months | Quarters |
Cost (migration project) | Lowest | Mid | Highest |
Cost (steady state) | Highest | Mid | Lowest |
Operational benefit | Modest | High | Highest |
Risk | Lowest | Mid | Highest |
Best for | Tactical exits, legacy workloads | Most workloads | Strategic apps |
2-4 weeks
Azure Migrate discovery, dependency mapping, workload classification (lift-and-shift, refactor, modernise, retire, retain).
2-4 weeks
Subscription design, network, identity, security baseline, monitoring. Foundation for migration.
8-16 weeks
Migrate in waves: lift-and-shift first for low-risk workloads, refactor/modernise on schedule for strategic workloads.
Ongoing
Cost optimisation, performance tuning, right-sizing, reliability improvements, security maturity.
“We migrated 32 servers from a Dubai colocation to Azure UAE North. GR ran the assessment, the landing zone, and the migration over 16 weeks. We saw 27% cost reduction year one through reserved instances and Hybrid Benefit, plus the DR capability we never had on-prem. The post-migration optimisation cycles have continued; another 15% reduction expected this quarter.”
A 2-4 week Azure Migrate-led assessment. Output: workload inventory, dependency map, migration-approach recommendations per workload, cost-estimate landing zone design.
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