In the past of couple of years, Microsoft has_improved_Azure cloud services platform more than any other competitors in the space. As a result, they are now in the position where customers are looking to migrate their cloud solutions to Azure. To make the migration process easier, Microsoft has now announced the limited preview of _Migration Accelerator (MA), for Azure. It is designed to seamlessly migrate physical, VMware, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Hyper-V workloads into Azure._ It automates all aspects of migration including discovery of source workloads, remote agent installation and more. MA changes the cloud migration paradigm by offering: Heterogeneity:_ With MA you can migrate workloads running on a broad range of platforms such as VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon Web Services and/or Physical servers within your environment. MA can support workloads running on Windows Server 2008 R2 sp1, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 operating systems. Simple, Automated Migration:_ The MA portal allows you to automatically discover your enterprise workloads, remotely from the cloud._ With few clicks...

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