Migration to Azure encompasses everything from lift-and-shift VM moves to full application modernization—and the gap between these approaches determines whether your project succeeds or becomes a cautionary tale. Azure Migrate provides assessment tooling that evaluates technical compatibility while completely ignoring the integration complexity that actually kills projects. Your VMs are probably compatible with Azure. The question is whether your applications, dependencies, and operational processes survive the transition.
Enterprise migration means coordinating across networking, security, application, and infrastructure teams while maintaining production SLAs. Each application needs its own migration strategy: rehost, refactor, rearchitect, or retire. Each strategy carries different risk profiles, cost implications, and timeline requirements. The organizations that succeed invest heavily in discovery and assessment before touching Azure Migrate—answering 55 questions per application about ownership, dependencies, compliance requirements, and business criticality.
December 16, 2025
Azure Migrate appliances have an 18-month hard limit before mandatory re-registration that deletes all discovery data. Microsoft documents this as 'expected behavior' in the FAQ but provides no alerts, no data preservation, and no migration path. The certificate expires at 12 months with one 6-month extension available, then forces complete appliance reconfiguration with total data loss at month 18.
November 24, 2025
End-to-end implementation guide for connecting VMware vCenter to Azure Arc with governance in mind: tags, policy, RBAC, and reporting from day one.
November 14, 2025
Complete Azure migration checklist: 80% of migration failures happen because you didn't ask these 8 questions BEFORE starting. License keys, vendor contacts, firewall rules, certificates - the enterprise migration checklist that actually works.
October 15, 2025
Microsoft's official migration tool assumes single domains and flat networks. Here's why it's architecturally incompatible with multi-domain hybrid environments.
October 15, 2025
Finance celebrates retiring 100 apps instead of migrating them. Six months later: Why are we still paying for the old data center? Because 'Retire' isn't a decision, it's a $300K decommissioning project nobody budgeted for.
October 14, 2025
Finance compares Azure VM costs to server costs and declares cloud expensive. They're missing the entire point: no VAR meetings, no hardware refresh, provision in minutes instead of months. The value isn't in the spreadsheet.
October 09, 2025
VMware admins: That 'Connect' button isn't console access. Serial Console is hidden in Help > Boot Diagnostics, works without networking, and doesn't require Azure Monitor Agent. Here's what Microsoft didn't tell you.
September 24, 2025
The biggest Azure migration mistakes enterprises make: moving applications nobody understands. Real migration failures, institutional knowledge loss, and what actually works.
