Unlock the full potential of your VMware workloads by extending them to Azure, no app refactoring required. In this demo-driven session, see how Azure VMware Solution lets you enhance existing applications with Azure’s powerful platform services, AI capabilities, and a wide range of integrated cloud tools. Learn how to modernize at your own pace while leveraging the scalability and intelligence of the Azure ecosystem.

For years, businesses have relied on Microsoft to power critical systems and applications like VMware, SAP, and Oracle. With Azure, organizations can now modernize these systems more efficiently and securely, enabling innovation at their own pace. Explore partner strategies for transforming workloads and see how leveraging Microsoft’s tools and investments can accelerate success and uncover new opportunities.

Enterprises are under pressure to modernize infrastructure without disrupting critical operations. In this session, learn how Azure VMware Solution (AVS) enables a seamless, low-risk migration path for VMware workloads—preserving existing investments while unlocking the scale and innovation of Azure. Watch a live migration demo and explore real-world customer success stories that highlight key lessons and best practices. We’ll also dive into enterprise-grade security strategies.

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This session is designed specifically for VMware admins who want to accelerate their cloud journey. You’ll learn how to use Azure Migrate to discover and assess VMware workloads, migrate them into Azure, and then manage them with cloud-native tools. We’ll also compare operations tasks like provisioning VMs, setting up high availability, and monitoring health, between vSphere and Azure, helping you gain confidence in running production workloads in the cloud.

Atos had a need for some services to remain on-prem and had numerous VMWare clusters coming to end of life. Azure Local was the selected solution, and in this talk we look at why Azure Local was chosen, the benefits it delivered, and how we achieved a migration off VMWare in short timescales, saving money and delivering new capabilities to our internal IT services.

Discover how Pure Storage Cloud enhances Azure VMware Solution by simplifying operations and boosting agility. This session explores the technical foundations of resilient storage with enterprise features and shows how customers can reduce costs across cloud migration, disaster recovery, and hybrid deployments.