Accelerate your cloud journey with Microsoft's Cloud Migration Factory (CMF)

Posted: February 28th

Author: Microwarehouse

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SMB companies are increasingly looking to the cloud to enhance efficiency, scalability, and innovation. However, the journey to the cloud can be complex and daunting. That’s where Microsoft’s Cloud Migration Factory (CMF) services come in, offering a streamlined and accelerated path to Microsoft Azure.

What is the Cloud Migration Factory?

The Cloud Migration Factory (CMF) is a white-label end-to-end migration service from Microsoft designed to assist Microsoft CSP partners by providing rehost migrations of customer workloads to Microsoft Azure. The rehost migration services provided by the CMF include: Infra, Apps, and Data workloads at zero cost for partners and customers. It is designed to ensure a seamless transition from on-premises environments to Azure.

The CMF is a factory-style approach that delivers rehost migration services for workloads such as: Windows Server, SQL Server, Linux, AVD migrations, OSS DB systems, Application migrations to PaaS services, and Azure Security (Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel etc). It also provides a Jumpstart approach for Lakehouse workloads for both Analytics and AI services.

The CMF phases includes:

Assessment and Planning: Evaluating the current IT environment and creating a detailed migration plan.
Migration Execution: Handling the actual migration of workloads, applications, and data to the cloud.
Optimisation and Support: Ensuring that the migrated workloads are optimised for performance and cost.

Key Features and Benefits:

No Cost: The CMF provides rehost migration services (Lift & Shift) at zero cost to partners and customers, meaning partners and customers can benefit from Microsoft’s expertise without incurring additional expense.
Comprehensive Services: The CMF offers a full suite of services, including infrastructure and application migration, database migration and modernisation, and data integration. This ensures that all aspects of your customers’ cloud journey are covered.
No Thresholds: No minimum or maximum thresholds (i.e. 1 VM to 10,000+ VMs)
No eligibility criteria – i.e. no Designations or Specialisations required
Professional Services: The CMF team effectively add professional services capacity to your team to help accelerate migrations to Microsoft Azure.
Expert Support: The CMF team comprises of certified Azure professionals with extensive experience in cloud migrations. This expertise ensures that migrations are executed smoothly and efficiently.
Rapid Execution: Project will be executed in less than 4 weeks end-to-end (from nomination to completion)
Flexible Delivery Methods: The CMF offers two delivery methods: screen-share support and hands-on keyboard delivery. This flexibility allows partners to choose the method that best suits their needs and capabilities.

Why Resellers should avail the CMF

Microsoft Partners can benefit from the Cloud Migration Factory in several ways:

Expertise and Resources: Access to a team of Microsoft experts who have extensive experience in cloud migrations, reducing the risk of errors and delays.
Efficiency: Streamlined processes and best practices accelerating the migration timeline.
Tailored Solutions: The CMF provides customised migration strategies and roadmaps tailored to the unique needs of each business. This ensures that the migration process aligns with your clients specific goals and challenges.
Customer-Centric Approach: Dedicated Microsoft Project Managers work closely with Reseller and their customers to ensure smooth execution and communication throughout the migration process.
Cost Savings: Optimised migration strategies that help reduce costs associated with cloud adoption.
Customer Satisfaction: Providing a seamless migration experience for customers, leading to higher satisfaction and loyalty.

How to get started with CMF?

Getting started with the Cloud Migration Factory is simple: · Submit your SMB CMF nomination here: CMF SMB Nomination Form

Initial Consultation: This will schedule a consultation with CMF experts to discuss your needs and objectives.
Assessment: The CMF team conducts a thorough assessment of your clients current infrastructure and applications.
Planning: Develop a detailed migration plan tailored to your business.
Execution: The CMF team executes the migration with minimal disruption to your operations.
Optimisation: Post-migration, the CMF team continuously monitors and optimizes your cloud environment.

Conclusion:

The Cloud Migration Factory from Microsoft offers a comprehensive and efficient solution for businesses looking to migrate to Microsoft Azure. Microsoft are providing tangible assistance to partners who either lack the migration expertise, or do not have sufficient capacity or bandwidth to move their customers’ workloads to Azure. By leveraging the CMF, Microsoft resellers can enhance their service offerings, improve customer outcomes, and drive business growth.

Call To Action:

If you are a Microsoft Partner struggling to take on new migration projects because of the size of your team, or you are lacking the internal expertise, then you should avail of this free service.

Submit your Cloud Migration Factory (CMF) nomination here: CMF Nomination Form
Use the CMF in conjunction with the Azure Credit Offer (ACO) to accelerate your customer migration to Azure.