Assessment for Migration toAzure VMware Solution (AVS)
Customer challenges
Organizations stand to gain many benefits from moving
VMware® workloads to cloud. Modernization, sustainability
goals, and the ongoing need to effectively compete and meetbusiness objectives are all driving the need to reduce data
center footprints.
But planning for migration can be a daunting task—one→ Mapping and collection of applications, data, and servers,
with high-level affinity mapping for in-scope servers→ Total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis to run workloads
on Azure→ Recommendations on migration to Azure, next steps, andminimum viable product (MVP) development

Customer benefits

where you must simultaneously optimize the use of existing

Our rapid discovery and migration assessment leverages

resources, minimize business disruption, and make sure

Azure-native and other third-party tools as needed to help you

the process is carried out securely and on time. Most

determine the value of moving to Microsoft Azure Cloud fromorganizations don’t have the in-house skills andyour current environment. Tailored to your existing environment

expertise to plan for a flawless migration.

and migration objectives, the top benefits of our thoroughassessment for migration to AVS include:

Solution highlights
Kyndryl™ assessment methodology is designed to help you
reduce risk while developing and planning a roadmap tomigrating on-premises VMware servers and applications
to AVS. If you don’t already have a Microsoft® Azure
subscription, we can work with Microsoft to check thefeasibility of providing a test subscription for assessment.
In our planned, phased approach, we collect theinfrastructure, application, and database asset informationnecessary to provide:

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Our strong partnership and deep expertise withboth Microsoft and VMware
Deep experience as one of the largest VMware
managed services providers
Predictability with pre-tested solution designs, 		
configurations, workflows, and blueprints
Standard or customized accelerators to meetindustry needs
Joint innovation labs for co-creation with
Microsoft and VMware

Why Kyndryl and Microsoft?
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl is a $19 billion company with skilled professionals

We have decades of experience working with customers

operating in over 60 countries. We design, build, manage andto deliver enterprise-grade workload analysis, migration,modernize mission-critical technology systems that the world

implementation, and managed services for the mostdepends on everyday.

complex workloads.

Providing undisputed leadership
6.1M mainframe

300K network

installed MIPs

devices managed

67K+ VMware

14K+ SAP

3.5+ exabytes ofsystems managed

instances managed

client data backed

5,200+ WAN

3.5M LANdevices managed

ports managed

up annually

Azure Advanced Specialization

Empowering thousands of customers→ Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure→ SAP on Microsoft Azure→ Analytics on Microsoft Azure→ Microsoft Azure VMware Solution> 4,000
Global customers→ Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop

75%. . . of the Fortune
100 and morethan half of theFortune 500

Solution Partner Designations→ Solutions Partner for Infrastructure (Azure)→ Solutions Partner for Data & AI (Azure)→ Solutions Partner for Digital & App
Innovation (Azure)

20,000+→ Solutions Partner for Modern Work

Microsoft Certifications→ Solutions Partner for Security

Kyndryl and Microsoft Advantage
Kyndryl and Microsoft provide the services and solutions tomeet customers wherever they are on their cloud journey: on
premise, across multiple clouds, or on the edge. With our joint
expertise, we work with customers to manage complexity andmodernize their operations for rapid business outcomes. We
bring together deep design, delivery, management, and cloudtechnology expertise, supported by an expansive ecosystem,
to unlock our customer’s potential for long term business impact.

Next steps
Learn more at the Kyndryl and Microsoft alliance page.
Or visit kyndryl.com.

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