Microsoft Azure is the leading public cloud platform. It is ideal for organisations with standard, mass access, non-critical applications requiring flexibility. It provides software, platform and infrastructure ‘as a service’. It is more flexible, scalable and cost-effective than traditional IT models and lets you add capacity or capabilities rapidly without investing in additional physical infrastructure.
What makes Microsoft Azure such an effective service?
Our experience suggests it’s not just the functionality of the cloud that will deliver the return on investment and the potential benefits you require. What’s crucial is how the solution is designed and implemented, how migration is managed and how users are supported post set-up.
Embracing the cloud can be more challenging than you may first think. You may conclude that you don’t have the time or resources to carry out the migration yourself. In which case working with a partner makes sense.
We can work with you to create a cloud roadmap that will enable you to build and manage an infrastructure that makes your business truly agile. We can help support you in four ways:
We start by understanding your existing IT model and develop a cloud strategy with you.
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Your applications now need to be accessed by your users and customers remotely in the cloud.
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With the correct design, we move onto planning and supporting your migration to the cloud.
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The cloud doesn’t run itself. It still needs to be maintained and enhanced.
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According to Microsoft, “Azure is a growing collection of integrated cloud services—analytics, computing, database, mobile, networking, storage, and web—for moving faster, achieving more, and saving money.”
Azure can be an extremely attractive service for any size business. Microsoft Azure is the leading cloud solution of choice globally for 90% of Fortune 500 companies. Using deeply-integrated Azure cloud services, enterprises can rapidly build, deploy, and manage simple to complex applications with ease. Azure supports a wide range of programming languages, frameworks, operating systems, databases, and devices, allowing enterprises to leverage tools and technologies they trust. Finally, it is the most compliant and trusted public cloud platform in the world. Other common reasons include:
AWS is the provider most commonly chosen for strategic adoption; AWS is the most mature, enterprise-ready provider, with the strongest track record of customer success and the most useful partner ecosystem. However, its extensive portfolio of services requires expertise to implement and may challenge even highly agile, expert IT organizations. Azure has more comprehensive compliance coverage with more than 70 compliance offerings, and that it was the first major cloud provider to contractually commit to the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). To protect your organisation, Azure embeds security, privacy, and compliance into its development methodology, and has been recognised as the most trusted cloud for US government institutions. Azure has 50 global regions, more than any other cloud provider – offering the scale needed to bring apps closer to users around the world, preserving data residency and offering comprehensive compliance and resiliency options for customers. Explore Azure or AWS
Microsoft groups its Azure data center locations into regions. It is beginning to introduce availability zones (multiple data centers within a region). There are multiple Azure regions in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France, Germany, Australia, India, Japan, and Korea, as well as regions in Ireland, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Brazil. Azure has more global regions than any other cloud provider – offering the scale needed to bring apps closer to users around the world, preserving data residency, and offering comprehensive compliance and resiliency options for customers. Here’s a map of the various Azure regions
There are many guides and resources available from Microsoft to guide you through the process. A word of caution though. If you are considering doing this in house, consider the technical capabilities of your team and the resource and time that you will need to commit to the project. Gartner recommends that customers shouldn’t underestimate the expertise required to properly implement Azure in a performant, reliable and secure fashion. Gartner clients with larger-scale implementations have reported significant challenges with Azure adoption; smaller customers may experience the same challenges, but with less severe impact. Garner goes on to recommend that customers should use an MSP to execute a more successful implementation. Download the full Gartner report here.
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