MICROSOFT PRODUCT CAPABILITIES
Choose the right Azure services for the work.
Azure provides infrastructure, managed application services, data platforms, and management tools. A useful design starts with the application, its dependencies, and the service it must deliver, then selects the platform components to support it.
Cloud migration
Discover existing workloads, assess readiness and costs, and plan a tested move with Azure Migrate and the appropriate migration tools.
Explore Cloud migration
Hybrid management
Use Azure Arc to bring supported infrastructure into Azure management. Connect on-premises requirements through a deliberate hybrid architecture.
Explore Hybrid management
Backup and recovery
Use Azure Backup for recovery points and Azure Site Recovery for supported replication and failover scenarios.
Explore Backup and recovery
Design the operating model with the architecture
Identity, network access, policy, monitoring, recovery, and cost ownership belong in the design. Azure services and regions have different capabilities and consumption charges; choose them around the workload.
Put it to work with Braintree.
Braintree assesses your estate, builds the Azure foundation, migrates or modernises the applications, and agrees how they will be monitored, secured, supported, and improved.
Microsoft product guidance
Choose the work that needs attention.
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Move to Azure
Assess workloads, design the landing zone and migrate in validated phases.
Explore Move to Azure
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Improve the applications
Address technical debt and platform fit in the applications and databases already running.
Explore Improve the applications
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Manage a mixed environment
Apply management and governance across cloud, on-premises and edge resources.
Explore Manage a mixed environment
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Strengthen recovery
Define the recovery priorities, design the response and test it.
Explore Strengthen recovery
What happens after migration matters.
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Monitor
Use Azure Monitor and Log Analytics to understand workload health.
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Protect
Review the security posture with Defender for Cloud.
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Optimise
Review consumption, right-sizing and eligible licensing benefits.
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Govern
Apply policy and identity controls across subscriptions.
PROJECT CONTEXT
Assessment before architecture. Validation before cutover.
Review the current infrastructure and workloads, produce a cost model and migration scope, then establish the landing zone. Test the migrated workloads before cutover and define the managed service that follows.
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Select the cloud decision before the cloud service
The useful starting point is a business pressure: a workload needs to move, an application needs to change, recovery is uncertain or the estate has become hard to govern. These concerns can overlap, but they require different evidence. A migration inventory does not establish application-code readiness, and a cost report does not explain who can restore a business service.
Azure offers infrastructure, platform and management capabilities that can support incremental change. Braintree’s family scope connects migration, hybrid environments, application and data modernisation, governance and operation. Select the service route that answers the immediate question while keeping the surrounding dependencies visible.
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Evaluate the constraints that affect real deployment
A proposed design needs more than a service name. Confirm the region and feature availability, identity and network requirements, capacity or quota constraints and recovery expectations. Include dependencies on retained systems and third-party vendors. These details can change both the architecture and the delivery sequence.
Microsoft’s landing-zone guidance separates shared platform foundations from application environments. That distinction helps identify which controls and services are provided centrally and which belong to workload owners. An organisation can then improve its cloud foundation without pretending that every application has identical needs.
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Compare a migration project with an operating relationship
Migration is a change programme with a target and acceptance conditions. Operating an Azure estate is continuing work involving access, monitoring, recovery, cost and releases. When both are proposed, the handover should make the point of responsibility clear.
Bring existing bills, workload and business owners, recovery requirements and known incidents into the discussion. Agree how the service will be measured after change, including the business behaviour it supports. A regional deployment, a backup job or a populated monitoring portal each provides part of the evidence; none describes the whole operating model on its own.
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Match the question to the Azure route
Requirement
What to examine
Decision to make
Ageing infrastructure or data-centre change
Support position, dependencies and workload ownership.
Discovery, migration or an estate modernisation map.
Application or data limitation
Code, runtime, source quality and the intended business capability.
A focused engineering or data-readiness assessment.
Existing cloud friction
Ownership, control coverage, cost and recovery evidence.
A governance, value or operational improvement review.
EVIDENCE & DOCUMENTATION
See the work in context.
BEFORE YOU DECIDE
