Azure migration and managed services
CBTS is a cloud service provider (CSP) and a Certified Solution Provider for all three areas of Microsoft Azure: Infrastructure, Digital and App Innovation, and Data and AI. Our vast experience with Azure deployments includes varying verticals and unique case studies. Depending on whether we are simply doing a “lift and shift” or refactoring the applications, our Microsoft certified experts are here to help. As a CSP, CBTS is able to provide its customers with an end-to-end managed Microsoft cloud experience, and provide value-added guidance to our customers with support, billing, and consulting.
Azure migration services and adoption
CBTS follows Microsoft best practice design and deployments, utilizing best-in-class Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure. Our approach to cloud migration and modernization involves a structured approach to ensure a smooth and successful transition to Azure.
Strategy
- CBTS works with your team to align stakeholders and helps define business objectives
- Define business justification and create a business case for adopting Azure
- Create a skilling plan for employees to support the environment
Plan
- Evaluate your existing infrastructure, applications, and workloads to build a holistic plan
- Develop organizational alignment plan for Azure adoption
Prepare
- Prioritize workloads and create a migration plan that matches your business objectives
- Build a landing zone plan for the planned migration
- Target architecture designed for scalability, availability, security, and cost optimization
Migrate
- Azure resources provisioned for identified workloads based on defined strategy
- Execute with Azure Migrate tools to simplify process
- Utilize Azure App Service, Azure Functions, or Kubernetes for application migration
Governance
- Setup identity and access management controls with Entra ID
- Configure network security groups, implement encryption, and enable logging and monitoring with Azure Security Center and Azure Monitor
- Enable cloud budget tracking, reports, and dashboards
Manage
- CBTS provides ongoing monitoring and management for your Azure services
- Take advantage of our cloud backup and disaster recovery solutions
- We will continuously monitor your Azure environment to optimize cost, and identify performance bottlenecks and security vulnerabilities
Azure managed services:
Azure Compute
Improve operational excellence while reducing the likelihood of extended outages, issues related to configuration drift, vulnerabilities related to systems being improperly patched, and the overall health of all compute resources: virtual machines/ images, container solutions, application services/solutions, dedicated hosts, Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD).
- Container solutions
- Azure container instances
- Azure container registry
- Azure Kubernetes services (AKS)
- Container apps
- Azure functions
- Batch
- Infrastructure solutions
- Azure dedicated hosts/host groups
- Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
- Compute solutions
- Virtual machines
- Virtual machine scale sets
- Availability sets
- VM images
- Applications solutions
- App service (plans)
- Web app for containers
- API management (gateway)
- Content delivery network
Azure Storage
CBTS managed services for Azure Storage allow the continued support and advanced configurations to take advantage of storage services and become less reliant on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions: archive/tiering, blob storage, disaster recovery (DR), and backup solutions.
- Storage solutions
- Azure Blob Storage
- Archive storage/tiering
- Azure Files
- Storage sync services
- Azure Disk Storage
- Azure HPC Cache
- Disaster recovery and backup solutions
- Azure Backup
- Azure Site Recovery
- Azure Data Box/Data Box Gateway
- Advanced solutions
- Azure NetApp Files
- StorSimple
Azure Networking
CBTS managed services help your Azure network perform at its optimal level and constantly update it to provide seamless communication while implementing zero trust with Microsoft best practices and solutions: virtual networks, public IP addresses, service endpoints, routing and switching solutions, and connectivity solutions.
- Routing and switching solutions
- Azure Routing
- Azure Firewall
- Web application firewall (WAF)
- Connectivity solutions
- VPN gateways
- Application gateways
- NAT gateways
- Virtual WANs
- Load balancers
- Traffic manager
- Azure Front Door
- Service endpoints
- Networking solutions
- Virtual networks
- Network security groups
- Application security groups
- Public IP addresses
- Network interfaces
- Azure DNS Bastions
- Azure Network Watcher
- Azure DDoS Protection
Azure Database
Creating or hosting your database in Azure has many benefits: limitless storage, lowered costs (due to reduced hardware overhead), high availability, quick, easy and reliable disaster recovery. The separation of storage from computing delivers enhanced security benefits. CBTS managed services can ensure your data environment is optimized, secure, and resilient to enable you to get the most out of your data.
- Database solutions
- Azure SQL
- SQL server (IaaS)
- Azure SQL Database
- Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Table storage
- Azure Database for MariaDB
- Azure Database for MySQL
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- Azure Cosmos DB
- Database distribution solutions
- Event hubs
- Azure Cache for Redis
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure Data Share
- Azure Data Lake Storage
- Azure Database Migration Service
Azure Analytics
CBTS has the expertise and experience to utilize these tools to their maximum value.
- Analytics solutions
- Azure Monitor
- Log analytics workspaces
- Application insights
Azure security architecture
Moving to Azure can increase complexities for security if you don’t get the design right from the beginning. In fact, you could be adding risk to your enterprise if you choose to go it alone. CBTS has a set standard of best practices for success-based architecture that is rooted in five pillars of a foundational review which include:
- Operational excellence.
- Performance efficiency.
- Security.
- Cost optimization.
- Reliability.
Azure cost optimization
Trust CBTS to review your environments and ensure you only pay for what you need.
- Identify under-utilizations of resources to resize to lower cost options.
- Transition to service-based architectures and/or implement new cost saving options available from Microsoft.
- Review and adjust on a recurring basis to stay optimized as your organization evolves.
Learn more: How CBTS can help your organization with Azure
Why CBTS?
For customers who need stability, flexibility, security, and peace of mind within their cloud environment, CBTS provides best-in-class managed Azure services
CBTS’ long history of providing managed services over the past decade has set the foundation for extending those services to support public cloud environments. Not only are we able to support the network, compute, storage, analytics, and security, but we are also proficient in modernizing technologies such as Infrastructure as Code, orchestration, containerization, CI/CD, and more.
CBTS does the necessary pre-work with our Microsoft-certified engineers to ensure your migration to the Cloud is a smooth one. We leverage the latest tools and best practices from Microsoft to guarantee your business objectives are met.
Azure monitoring and management provides:
- Administrative support.
- Cost optimization.
- Continuous monitoring and management 24×7.
- Updates and patching.
- Monitoring and alerting.
- Security and compliance.
- Azure backups and disaster recovery services.
- Azure DevOps.
- Licensing and billing support.
