Microland earns the coveted Windows Server and SQL Server Migration to Microsoft Azure Advanced Specialization

Microland, a leading digital services company today announced that it has earned the Windows Server and SQL Server Migration to Microsoft Azure Advanced Specialization. This recognition is a validation of Microland's deep knowledge, extensive experience and expertise in migrating Windows Server and SQL Server-based workloads to Azure.

This recognition is exclusively earned by partners who meet the stringent criteria around customer success and staff skilling while passing a third-party audit of their migration practices. It positions Microland as a partner-of-choice for Enterprises looking to modernize their applications and take full advantage of the benefits that cloud computing can deliver. This is much more pertinent today in the context of the recent end-of-support for Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 R2. It is an acknowledgement of Microland's advanced skills and ability to partner with clients to move their existing workloads to the cloud, by providing end to end lifecycle services including plan, assess, design and migrate.

"Our partnership with Microsoft continues to strengthen, and we are pleased to have been accredited Azure advanced specialization for our skills in migrating Windows and SQL workloads to the cloud. Microland is a trusted name in the Azure space with wide ranging skills and competencies in hybrid cloud management. This specialization reinforces our commitment to bring advance Azure capabilities to our clients as part of our delivery excellence framework," noted Sivakumar Thiyagarajan, Senior Vice President, Strategic Alliances, Microland.

Microland has been a Microsoft partner since 1995 and has realized 9 Gold Competencies, and advanced Azure Competency in SQL and Windows migration. Microland has worked extensively with customers across the globe in migrating their applications to Azure, using Azure App Service, Service Environment, SQL Managed Instance, Data Factory, App Insights, Data Lake, Data Bricks, Azure Kafka and AppFabric.