{"id":2640,"date":"2026-03-03T12:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clouddirect.net\/learning-hub\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:54:35","slug":"azure-vmware-solution-cloud-native-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clouddirect.net\/learning-hub\/azure-vmware-solution-cloud-native-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure VMware Solution:\u00a0What it is,\u00a0and\u00a0how\u00a0it\u00a0can\u00a0aid\u00a0your\u00a0journey to\u00a0Cloud\u00a0Native\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Infrastructure&nbsp;delivery&nbsp;is&nbsp;progressively&nbsp;moving to a&nbsp;cloud-native model.&nbsp;However, uncertainties caused by&nbsp;VMware licensing changes&nbsp;are adding a new urgency to&nbsp;strategic decision making.&nbsp;We consider the challenges in moving to a cloud-native infrastructure&nbsp;and the role that Azure VMware Solution might play in the&nbsp;journey.&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>For more than two decades, enterprise IT has been built around the data centre.\u00a0For much of that time\u00a0the default computing model has been\u00a0server virtualisation,\u00a0typically\u00a0with\u00a0VMware vSphere. This\u00a0abstracted\u00a0the physical\u00a0hardware\u00a0to improve\u00a0utilisation and created\u00a0a stable, controllable environment. Infrastructure teams optimised\u00a0for uptime, capacity planning, and cost efficiency.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>And&nbsp;it\u2019s&nbsp;a&nbsp;model&nbsp;that&nbsp;has worked&nbsp;very well&#8230; but&nbsp;the focus&nbsp;is shifting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Competitive pressures&nbsp;now&nbsp;demand faster application delivery, greater elasticity, API-driven integration, and continuous iteration.&nbsp;The&nbsp;objective&nbsp;is no longer simply&nbsp;\u2018efficiency\u2019,&nbsp;it\u2019s&nbsp;business agility.&nbsp;Which&nbsp;means&nbsp;cloud platforms,&nbsp;platform services, API-driven architecture, containers, and DevOps operating models.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>However,&nbsp;many&nbsp;organisations&nbsp;can\u2019t&nbsp;simply switch&nbsp;to&nbsp;cloud native.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-cloud-nbsp-native-challenges\"><strong>Cloud&nbsp;Native challenges<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>While&nbsp;a&nbsp;cloud-native&nbsp;architecture&nbsp;promises resilience, scalability and speed, organisations need to&nbsp;first&nbsp;overcome&nbsp;several challenges.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Reliance on&nbsp;legacy applications<\/strong>&nbsp;<br>If key systems are&nbsp;monolithic, tightly coupled to specific OS versions,&nbsp;and\/or dependent on infrastructure-level configurations, they can&#8217;t quickly or&nbsp;easily be refactored.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Skills&nbsp;gap<\/strong>&nbsp;<br>Typically, existing&nbsp;staff&nbsp;don\u2019t&nbsp;have the&nbsp;skills&nbsp;or&nbsp;the&nbsp;working&nbsp;culture&nbsp;to support&nbsp;a&nbsp;cloud&nbsp;native&nbsp;approach.&nbsp;They\u2019ll&nbsp;need&nbsp;time&nbsp;to become&nbsp;skilled with&nbsp;infrastructure as code,&nbsp;continuous&nbsp;integration, development and deployment (CI\/CD)&nbsp;pipelines, and new security models, as well as&nbsp;to adapt&nbsp;to a&nbsp;product-centric delivery&nbsp;culture.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Risk<\/strong>&nbsp;<br>Core systems, such as&nbsp;ERP&nbsp;and&nbsp;finance,&nbsp;can\u2019t&nbsp;tolerate disruption&nbsp;\u2013 especially&nbsp;in&nbsp;regulated&nbsp;environments. \u2018Big bang\u2019&nbsp;changes are inherently riskier,&nbsp;and&nbsp;it may be a level of risk that&nbsp;isn\u2019t&nbsp;acceptable&nbsp;to your senior leadership team.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Commercial&nbsp;realities<\/strong>&nbsp;<br>Speed of change may also be limited&nbsp;by&nbsp;hardware&nbsp;investment&nbsp;cycles or&nbsp;data centre contracts, multi-year licensing commitments, and data residency requirements.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-hybrid-by-nbsp-necessity-nbsp-the-transitional-phase\"><strong>Hybrid by&nbsp;necessity:&nbsp;the transitional phase<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>Where&nbsp;a rapid move to Cloud&nbsp;Native&nbsp;isn\u2019t&nbsp;practical,&nbsp;a more measured, incremental&nbsp;transition is&nbsp;possible.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Organisations&nbsp;can&nbsp;adopt a hybrid model&nbsp;and separate infrastructure migration from application modernisation, moving workloads off ageing infrastructure&nbsp;and&nbsp;stabilising&nbsp;first&nbsp;before evolving.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>It is&nbsp;important to distinguish&nbsp;here&nbsp;between cloud location and your cloud operating model. Running workloads in a public cloud&nbsp;doesn\u2019t&nbsp;automatically make them&nbsp;Cloud Native, but it can create the conditions for modernisation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Which is&nbsp;where <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/products\/azure-vmware\">Azure VMware Solution<\/a> (AVS)&nbsp;can help.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-nbsp-is-azure-vmware-solution-nbsp\"><strong>What&nbsp;is Azure VMware Solution?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n<p>You can think of AVS&nbsp;as a&nbsp;half-way house on&nbsp;your journey&nbsp;from&nbsp;a&nbsp;data&nbsp;centre&nbsp;centric to cloud-native&nbsp;infrastructure.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>AVS gives you a&nbsp;fully managed VMware environment running natively within Microsoft Azure.&nbsp;It provides&nbsp;a&nbsp;dedicated, private cloud infrastructure built on the familiar VMware stack \u2014 vSphere,&nbsp;vSAN&nbsp;and NSX \u2014 delivered as a Microsoft service.&nbsp;Operationally, it looks and behaves like the VMware environment&nbsp;many organisations already run.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Crucially, workloads can be migrated with minimal or no re-architecture. Existing tools,&nbsp;processes&nbsp;and skillsets&nbsp;remain&nbsp;relevant.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>In simple terms: AVS allows organisations to&nbsp;relocate&nbsp;their VMware estate into Azure without rewriting applications.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-avs-as-a-nbsp-strategic-bridge-nbsp\"><strong>AVS as a&nbsp;strategic bridge<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n<p>Azure VMware Solution is not an end state,&nbsp;but it provides an easy to manage&nbsp;route&nbsp;to Cloud Native.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>1. Reducing&nbsp;infrastructure risk<\/strong>&nbsp;<br>AVS&nbsp;enables&nbsp;workloads&nbsp;to be&nbsp;quickly&nbsp;moved&nbsp;into Azure, reducing&nbsp;your&nbsp;reliance on physical infrastructure without introducing immediate application risk.&nbsp;It separates&nbsp;the infrastructure decision from the application decision. This is especially&nbsp;important for&nbsp;organisations facing data centre exits, hardware refresh cycles, or cost pressures.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>2.&nbsp;Buying&nbsp;time&nbsp;for modernisation<\/strong>&nbsp;<br>By lifting and shifting VMware workloads into Azure,&nbsp;you&nbsp;can then assess applications individually. Some may be retired, others may be re-platformed, and a smaller subset may justify full re-architecture.&nbsp;The key is sequencing. Infrastructure migration first, application transformation second.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>3. Supporting&nbsp;skills transition<\/strong>&nbsp;<br>AVS also buys you the time&nbsp;and&nbsp;space&nbsp;to&nbsp;make a controlled&nbsp;transition,&nbsp;allowing your infrastructure&nbsp;team to&nbsp;continue to&nbsp;operate&nbsp;in a familiar way, while gradually&nbsp;integrating Azure-native services&nbsp;and developing new, cloud-native skillsets.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>4. Enabling&nbsp;gradual integration with Azure&nbsp;services<\/strong>&nbsp;<br>Once workloads&nbsp;reside&nbsp;within Azure, they can begin consuming native services&nbsp;such as&nbsp;backup, disaster recovery&nbsp;(DR), security tooling, networking, analytics, and eventually platform services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>AVS becomes&nbsp;more than a hosting platform:&nbsp;it becomes&nbsp;a&nbsp;staging post&nbsp;for transformation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-when-avs-nbsp-makes-sense-and-when-it-doesn-t-nbsp\"><strong>When AVS&nbsp;makes sense and when it doesn\u2019t<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n<p>AVS&nbsp;is particularly compelling where:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There\u2019s&nbsp;an&nbsp;infrastructure&nbsp;deadline:&nbsp;data centre contract&nbsp;renewal or hardware refresh&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There\u2019s&nbsp;a sizeable&nbsp;VMware dependency&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>VMware licensing changes have&nbsp;impacted&nbsp;budgets and&nbsp;altered economics&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Application refactoring would take years&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Risk tolerance is low&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There are regulatory or resilience drivers.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>It is less compelling where:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Applications are already containerised&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cloud-native delivery capabilities are mature&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Greenfield platforms are being built from scratch.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-discover-nbsp-what-s-nbsp-right-for-you-nbsp\"><strong>Discover&nbsp;what\u2019s&nbsp;right for you<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n<p>While&nbsp;an immediate&nbsp;cloud-native transformation is&nbsp;an&nbsp;attractive&nbsp;notion, practical&nbsp;challenges&nbsp;may dictate otherwise.&nbsp;Many organisations will pragmatically&nbsp;follow a path&nbsp;from virtualised data centre&nbsp;to hybrid infrastructure,&nbsp;cloud-hosted VMware, incremental re-platforming,&nbsp;and&nbsp;targeted cloud-native adoption.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>AVS&nbsp;can play a deliberate role in that journey, as an&nbsp;enabling platform that reduces risk, protects operational continuity, and creates breathing space for transformation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>But, like any architectural decision,&nbsp;individual circumstances&nbsp;matter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-s-next\">What&#8217;s next<\/h3>\n\n<p><strong>Further your knowledge by registering to&nbsp;attend \u2018<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/clouddirect.net\/events\/navigating-the-path-from-avs-to-cloud-native\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Navigating the path from AVS to Cloud Native<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u2019&nbsp;on Monday 23 March at The Shard, London.&nbsp;<\/strong>At this punchy, half-day briefing&nbsp;you\u2019ll&nbsp;hear:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Microsoft\u2019s&nbsp;Ron Goedhart&nbsp;explaining&nbsp;The Foundation for Content Modernisation&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Aspen Insurance\u2019s&nbsp;Head of Cloud, Julianne Franz&nbsp;outline&nbsp;learnings from their cloud-native journey&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Microsoft\u2019s Nelson Pereira&nbsp;describing&nbsp;the value you can&nbsp;drive with&nbsp;Data&nbsp;Factory&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cloud Direct\u2019s Jonathan Moore outline&nbsp;the help that can&nbsp;accelerate your journey&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Unable to attend?&nbsp;Request&nbsp;an introductory call with&nbsp;a&nbsp;subject matter&nbsp;expert using the form below,&nbsp;and&nbsp;see how Cloud Direct can help you successfully&nbsp;prepare&nbsp;for&nbsp;cloud-native infrastructure.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infrastructure&nbsp;delivery&nbsp;is&nbsp;progressively&nbsp;moving to a&nbsp;cloud-native model.&nbsp;However, uncertainties caused by&nbsp;VMware licensing changes&nbsp;are adding a new urgency to&nbsp;strategic decision making.&nbsp;We consider the challenges in moving to a cloud-native infrastructure&nbsp;and the role that Azure VMware Solution might play in the&nbsp;journey.&nbsp;&nbsp; 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