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Chapter 03 Bringing your legacy with you
Through its corporate acquisitions, Allscripts inherited numerous apps running
on more than 1,000 VMs. The company had the workloads up and running in
three weeks using a variety of migration paths:
• Using Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to replicate some VMs running Open
Source apps to the Azure Data Center, then initiating a fail over.
• Reusing some of its existing on-premises SQL Server licenses on Azure
(through Azure Hybrid Benefit), and migrating 600 VMs with older editions
of SQL Server.
• Moving some VMs running Linux apps to its own data center and then
setting up a VPN with the Azure data center.
• Lifting and shifting some of its on-premises workload to Azure SQL
Database Managed Instance.
Since moving these VMs to Azure, Allscripts has streamlined its data center
operations, and the company plans on migrating an additional 6,000 VMs that
it owned prior to the acquisition.
Allscripts
migrated nearly
6,000
virtual machines
to Azure
The path to migration
Using Azure has dramatically accelerated both our acquisition
time and our new product development time. We've been able
to shut down older, inefficient data centers and focus more
resources on developing great software. This is one factor that
moves us ahead in a very competitive market.
Peter Tomlinson
Director of IS, Technology Operations, Allscripts
