Episode 275 – Azure File Migration program with Karl Rautenstrauch

In Episode 275, Scott sits down with Karl Rautenstrauch, a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft to discuss the new Azure File Migration program. Karl explains how the program enables access to best of breed migration tooling which can help you easily perform managed migrations of files to Azure Storage, including Blobs, Files, and Azure NetApp Files. Sponsors * ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Spot by NetApp – The cloud automation platform that makes it easy to deliver continuously optimized infrastructure at the lowest possible cost * Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully * Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes * Migrate the critical file data you need to power your applications * New Azure File Migration program streamlines unstructured data migration * Migrating your files to Azure has never been easier * Migration guides * Migrate your files to Azure - Azure IaaS Day 2021 * Migration videos – https://aka.ms/filemigrationvideos * Data Dynamics - https://aka.ms/datadynamicsguide * Komprise - https://aka.ms/kompriseguide * Accelerate infrastructure migration with Azure Storage | Azure Storage Day 2021 * Azure Marketplace links * Komprise Elastic Data Migration and Analytics, offer sponsored by Microsoft Azure * Data Dynamics StorageX Migration, offer sponsored by Azure * Azure Storage migration overview About our guest Karl is an IT veteran with 23 years of experience. He has been a systems administrator and architect for Fortune 500 companies, a national solutions architect for NetApp and Microsoft, and now a Principal Product Manager in Azure Engineering. Karl likes to be in the thick of emerging technologies. In his 9 years with Microsoft, he has focused on Azure Storage, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Edge Computing, and High Availability. In his role as a Product Manager with the Azure Storage team, he focuses on strategic partnerships to enable any and every workload to run on Azure.