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Customer story When massive data volumes made datacenters too expensive for Sentara Healthcare, the not-for-profit organization decided to move its data to Microsoft Azure. The organization , which runs 12 hospitals in Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, wanted a modern platform it could use to connect doctors, patients, and data in a single portal. 20 What to do first: migrate or extend? Sentara subsequently migrated its mixed Windows Server and Linux environment. The organization achieved substantial savings by minimizing licensing costs with Azure Hybrid Benefit, right-sizing applications, and reducing infrastructure overhead. So far, Sentara has updated and moved 200 out of 400 business applications, and it will continue to run a hybrid cloud environment as it migrates the remaining 200 applications. The table on this page lists some of the ways Sentara and other organizations have used the Azure services to migrate workloads, applications, virtual machines, and data to Azure. For more information about migration to Azure, see https://azure.microsoft.com/migration/. Use cases Discover: Catalog existing applications and identify migration candidates. To understand what, when, and how applications should be moved, it's important to create a complete catalog of applications managed by IT. Use Azure Migrate or other tools to assess current computing environment, identify what can be moved, and understand costs. Discover: Catalog current data environment prior to migration. Use Data Migration Assistant to catalog the existing data environment, identify compatibility issues, and suggest performance and reliability improvements. Migrate: Shift VMs and workloads to Azure. Azure Site Recovery offers one-click failover and replication of applications and workloads from Windows Server, Linux and VMware machines. Automation reduces time and complexity of migration tasks. Migrate: Shift data and databases to Azure. Database Migration Service migrates existing on-premises SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL databases to Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Database Managed Instance or SQL Server on Azure virtual machines. Modernize: Lift and shift existing .NET applications by optimizing deployments with Windows containers. Improve your DevOps operations for your dev/test/production environment. Make your application cloud DevOps-ready. Containers remove friction caused by application dependencies when you deploy in multiple stages. Optimize: Manage your cloud spend with transparency and accuracy. Azure Cost Management + Billing provides granular, real-time visibility into cloud consumption, cost, and performance.