| Sudha Mahajan, Partner PM Azure Networking, Vijay Mamtani, CVP Azure Networking | September 2026 Lift-and-shift succeeds when the network moves with the application For many VMware customers, the immediate migration goal is practical: move workloads to Azure quickly, preserve application behavior and connectivity, reduce execution risk, keep it secure, and build a costed plan that leaders can approve. Compute and storage sizing are necessary, but it is not the whole migration plan. Applications depend on IP prefixes, network paths, security policies, load-balancing behavior, shared services, a |