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Wednesday May 6, 2026 1:00pm - 2:45pm CDT
Description:
Transitioning to Azure Local and Hyper-V offers a compelling, cost-effective alternative to VMware. Learn essential migration strategies, compare feature parity, and explore Azure Arc integration for seamless hybrid management. Understand licensing benefits, performance benchmarks, high availability, and disaster recovery, while maintaining control of your virtualization infrastructure with Azure services.

What you will learn:
  • Evaluate cost savings and licensing advantages when migrating from VMware to Azure Local and Hyper-V, including Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis and Azure Hybrid Benefit opportunities.
  • Master migration strategies and tools for a seamless transition from VMware to Azure Local/Hyper-V, including workload assessment, conversion processes, and minimizing downtime.
  • Leverage Azure Arc to manage hybrid infrastructure with unified governance, monitoring, and security across on-premises Hyper-V and cloud workloads from a single control plane.
  • Implement enterprise-grade features, including clustering, live migration, software-defined networking, and disaster recovery solutions that match or exceed VMware capabilities.
Speakers
avatar for Andreas Sobczyk

Andreas Sobczyk

Partner & Principal Consultant, twoday A/S
Andreas is a Principal Consultant at twoday, focusing Azure adoption, platform engineering and DevOps helping global customers accelerating there cloud journey and maximize the potential of the platform. Also being co-founder of Cloud and Datacenter User Group Denmark, Andreas has... Read More →
avatar for Matthew Wetherell

Matthew Wetherell

Infrastructure Manager, USNR

avatar for Kristopher Turner

Kristopher Turner

Microsoft MVP, Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Kristopher Turner is a Microsoft MVP in Azure, a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), and a Product Technology Architect at TierPoint, where he focuses on delivering innovative cloud and infrastructure solutions. With expertise spanning Azure Local, Azure Arc, Kubernetes, and disaster... Read More →
Wednesday May 6, 2026 1:00pm - 2:45pm CDT
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