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As companies mature they adapt to a certain way of doing things.
Regardless of the situation, your existing software has value and moving to
a new system shouldn't mean losing your historical data.
With Azure VMs and Azure SQL Database Managed Instance you can
seamlessly migrate, and manage heterogenous workloads. And because Azure
SQL Database Managed Instance has almost full feature parity with nearly 100
percent of SQL Server 2008, you can run your applications in the cloud with
few, or zero, code changes.
Chapter 03 Bringing your legacy with you Chapter 03 Bringing your legacy with you
Allscripts is a Chicago-based professional services firm that develops
and hosts software for hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, and pharmaceutical
companies around the world. Through a corporate acquisition, the company
inherited roughly 1,000 virtual machines (VMs) containing dozens of
applications running on older versions of Windows Server and SQL Server,
or on Linux.
Migration goals
Combine newly acquired workloads, consolidate data centers, increase
data security.
Bringing your
legacy with you
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