Azure Offerings
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Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (MSP)
FX Innovation ranks among the world’s best Microsoft services providers. Our latest certification as an Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (MSP) – Microsoft’s highest, awarded in 2019 – recognizes the expertise of all our policies, procedures and resources, and attests to our multi-level mastery of all Azure features and technologies.
As part of its Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (MSP), FX Innovation is proud to boast 15 Azure certifications, enabling it to provide high quality services and offer compliant and secure cloud environments.
This level of expertise consistently ensures our clients cost-efficiently receive maximum benefits at every stage of their cloud journey lifecycle, topped off with the peace of mind of superior-level coaching and mentorship needed to help them optimize the business advantages our services to their fullest potential.
FX Azure Assessment
Are you ready to begin your journey to Azure?
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Challenges We Address
Benefits You Receive
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Our team of Azure experts learn your business and technology challenges and objectives.
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We analyze your infrastructure and provide best steps forward to get you into Azure quickly and securely.
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Review your identity and access management plan to build for success in Azure.
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Run workshops to explain the importance of the Cloud Adoption Framework.
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Provide a cost estimate on moving to Azure and draw out a financial plan for your migration.
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Review of your operational and management procedures.
Landing Zone
What is a Landing Zone?
A secure and scalable Landing Zone to fast track your Azure migration
91% of business leaders see digital transformation as a way of sparking innovation and finding efficiencies
45% of IT spending on infrastructure and application software will shift from traditional solutions to cloud by 2024
70% of cloud spend is wasted each year due to poor architecture and overprovisioned resources
Challenges We Address
Benefits You Receive
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FX has the unparalleled experience to quickly and securely build a Landing Zone in accordance with compliance and governance.
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Focus more efficiently on your core business needs by freeing up the time required to oversee the basics.
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With thousands of successful migrations under our belt, we know the do’s and don’ts so that you don’t have to pay the price.
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Reap the benefits of working with Canada’s leading and certified Azure Expert MSP team.
Migration Program
Are you looking to modernize and optimize your infrastructure by migrating to Azure?
91% of business leaders see digital transformation as a way of sparking innovation and finding efficiencies
45% of IT spending on infrastructure and application software will shift from traditional solutions to cloud by 2024
70% of cloud spend is wasted each year due to poor architecture and overprovisioned resources
Challenges We Address
Benefits You Receive
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Our team of Azure experts learn your business and technology challenges and objectives.
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Establishing your organization's position in your cloud adoption journey and building your own data-driven business case with migration scenarios from your environment.
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Work with your team to develop a migration roadmap specific to your business strategy and then establish your Azure Landing Zone or review your existing one.
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Based on your business objectives and reality, we develop a CI/CD pipeline and Infrastructure-as-Code to help automate and streamline the migration process.
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Setting your team up for day 2 success, while minimizing your operational involvement and maximizing your output.
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We will help you leverage Reserved Instances, Consumption Plans and Azure Hybrid Benefits whenever possible to optimize your cloud costs.
Cost Optimization
Let us help you realize the cloud ROI (Return on Investment) you expect
91% of business leaders see digital transformation as a way of sparking innovation and finding efficiencies
45% of IT spending on infrastructure and application software will shift from traditional solutions to cloud by 2024
70% of cloud spend is wasted each year due to poor architecture and overprovisioned resources
Is Your CFO Asking Any of These Questions? You May Need Our FX Azure Cost Optimization
Benefits You Receive
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Our team of Azure experts learn your business and technology challenges and objectives.
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We review your cloud environment and provide personalized recommendations specific to your business.
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Our workshops approach will ensure that we not only help you with your current cloud spending, but also teach you how to put the appropriate guardrails in place for the future.
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We will explore how modernizing your applications can lead to significant costs savings.
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We offer multiple packages to ensure we give the right level of support needed by your team.
Customer Stories
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Customer profile:
- Industry: Finance
- Core business: Investment management
- Size: 500-5000 employees
- Location: Quebec, Canada
How we helped this customer migrate to Azure:
As part of its cloud strategy, the customer wanted to gain agility, reduce its reliance on hardware refresh cycles, and modernize its infrastructure for better service delivery and scalability. The customer decided to accelerate its datacenter migration to meet their goal of closing its datacenter within 18-24 months, which is why a rehosting approach made full sense.
The customer wanted to leverage the knowledge from a skilled Microsoft partner and benefit from the Microsoft Azure Migration and Modernization Program (AMMP). In June 2021, the customer chose FX Innovation as its Microsoft AMMP partner to migrate its datacenter environment to a new Azure environment for a migration program that would last for 18+ months. FX Innovation was chosen to:
- Validate the choice of migration tools (Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery, VM pre and post migration scripts, etc.),
- Deliver a pilot environment covering scenarios to validate the migration recipes,
- Participate in the development of the migration plan (VM/workload to be moved, etc.)
- Support, and contribute to the migration process with pre and post validations for all migrated workloads
For the customer, FX Innovation constructed a detailed migration plan and migration of hundreds of Windows VMs for their business applications, in collaboration with the customer.
For the customer, FX Innovation expertise is also delivering Operations Management Services of the migrated VMs, including backups, monitoring, logging, and patch management.
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Customer profile:
- Industry: Retail
- Core business: Supply and sale of automotive parts
- Size: 100-500 employees
- Location: Ontario, Canada
How FX helped this customer migrate to Azure:
Our customer was looking for a partner to help them with their cloud migration. The customer was migrating from a VMWare on-premises environment to Azure within a 1-year timeline. They were also looking to find a solution to their connectivity issue for more than one hundred stores. The company turned to the FX Innovation Team of Azure Cloud professionals to help them.
Starting in the summer 2022, FX Innovation conducted discovery workshops for the migration and deployed the Azure Landing Zone. To meet the customer needs, we created a proof of concept (POC) to find a suitable solution to connect the stores to Azure and executed the migration by rehosting their Linux VMs and Windows SQL servers from the VMWare on-premises environment to Azure. FX Innovation operationalized the migrated VMs and transitioned the environment under our Azure Managed Services so they can have complete peace of mind for the mission critical workloads migrated and benefit from evolutions over time.
The customer is now taking advantage of all the Azure cloud benefits:
- Lower monthly costs due to cloud migration
- Scalability for PaaS services for eventual modernization
- Improved security of the Azure datacenters
- Agility to quickly develop and meet market requirements
- Innovation to use innovative technologies and capabilities to gain market share
