Transform your              
on-workloads 
with Microsoft Azure  

ALSO: Your Cloud Migration Partner  

Microsoft Azure VMware Solution (AVS)
Azure Arc enabled VMware

Seamlessly lift and shift VMware workloads to Azure - no refactoring needed. 

• Fast migration
• Familiar VMware tools 
• Full access to Azure services via the Azure portal

For over 20 years, VMware has been a cornerstone in the infrastructure and operations landscape. Since Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware in 2023, rapid changes have prompted many CIOs to rethink their strategies.

Add the big increases we have seen in the cost of Hardware where components may show 10X pricing compared to September 2025. And the fact the several key microsoft product is going end of support.

With all these concerns compiling for partners and customers, and add the need for modernization, migrating onpremises workloads to Azure offers a seamless transition, leveraging existing expertise while embracing the cloud’s full potential.

Why Transition to Azure?  

Challenges with VMware/ Broadcom licensing models and Pricong paired with rising costs of Hardware and Energy and the expiring versions of Microsoft Server and SQL server will increase the costs of running onpremises, making cloud migration a more appealing choice than ever before.  

Azure also helps manage:  

Pathways to Cloud Success

Microsoft Azure Local (HCI) 
Azure Arc enabled

Remain on-premises while embracing the cloud.

• Modernise locally with Azure Arc 
• Unified management across environments
• Perfect for a Sovereign Private Cloud and edge scenarios
  

Microsoft Azure Native

Modernise apps and infrastructure in the cloud.

• Deep integration with Azure services 
• Scalable compute, storage, and networking 
• Ideal for cloud-native transformation
  

Guide your Customer the Right way

ALSO provides the tools, expertise, and guidance to help you deliver seamless migrations to Azure and build future-ready cloud environments.

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Free VMware Migration Assessment

Start with the ALSO VMware Migration Assessment in ACMP - a free service that evaluates your customers’ VMware infrastructure and delivers detailed sizing and pricing recommendations, tailored migration strategies and actionable insights for planning.

This assessment helps you identify the best-fit Azure landing zone and workload configuration for each customer.

ALSO supports you in analysing the Current Mode of Operation (CMO) and designing the Future Mode of Operation (FMO) with precision and clarity.

We help you build:

• High Level Design (HLD) – Strategic architecture planning
• Bill of Materials (BoM) – Resource and cost breakdown  
• State of Works (SoW) – Clear deployment roadmap

Partner enablement and readiness

Need technical expertise to deliver confidently? ALSO guides you through the Microsoft Azure learning and certification path, helping you upskill your team, prepare for official Microsoft certifications and build credibility with customers.

Our e-learning platform and online courses are tailored for ALSO partners and available in multiple languages.

ALSO has in place the necessary DEV/TEST environments that allow the development of Proofs of Concept (PoCs) that will guide you to assess, design, implement and finally migrate any type of workload.  

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ALSO Professional Services

With ALSO Professional Services, you are empowered to guide your customers through every stage of cloud migration and modernisation. ALSO provides expert support in designing and deploying the customer's Future Mode of Operation (FMO) - based on detailed Low-Level Design (LLD) documentation. This includes establishing a secure, scalable cloud foundation through Azure Landing Zone Design and Deployment, and selecting the right tools as Azure Migrate or Dr. Migrate and approach for each customer workload as part of a tailored Azure Migration Strategy.

To complete the solution, ALSO helps partners integrate key components such as Unstructured Data Management and Backup & Disaster Recovery.

Whether the customer is:

• Migrating from an on-premises VMware environment to Microsoft Azure VMware Solution (AVS) which allows for a seamless transition without refactoring while offering opportunities to enhance capabilities and explore the VMware Cloud Foundation stack.
• Transitioning from VMware Horizon to Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) which requires a strategic re-architecture of the virtual desktop environment with careful planning and execution.

ALSO equips partners with the expertise and resources to deliver tailored, future-ready cloud solutions to their customers, by supporting them not only with the design, but with the implementation and final migration and by generating all the needed deliverables.

To achieve this, we make use of new Azure features as the Copilot Migration Agent and the GitHub Copilot Modernization support.

Technical Pre-sales, VMware at ALSO Group

Jim Ekberg-Hegner

David Yegros Fabián

IT Infrastructure Architect Pre-Sales at ALSO Group

Senior international IT Infrastructure Architect Pre-Sales with a wide multi-cloud background from ALSO Group, VMware, Kyndryl, IBM and Telefónica. VMware Certified Advanced Professional

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