Microsoft Azure is a set of integrated cloud services that will help your business overcome its challenges. Azure is a reputed market leader in both private and public cloud domains and provides organizations with the power to effectively and affordably manage data back-up, disaster recovery, and security.
Microsoft Azure Managed Services are testing, deploying, handling, and supporting your applications and resources in a trusted cloud environment that brings innovation to your organization. Navigate from your existing server configuration to the accessible, functional, and reliable power of the Microsoft Azure Cloud.
This solution is one of the most renowned cloud service providers, offering various options for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS that cater to the rapidly changing business requirements of day-to-day needs of business enterprises.
Azure helps business organizations in the following:
- Ability to scale on demand: Ensures all applications are not forced to run off a single server and thus it will never run out of server capacity.
- Flexibility: Simple to adapt and offers a combined set of application building blocks and services that will allow customizing to use the cloud as needed.
- Cost competitive: Can allow maximum discounts to their customers due to a large base all over the globe resulting in lower costs.
- Customer support: Infrastructure has been expanded in 19 regions across the globe, with multiple data center regions in the US, Europe, China, Asia, and the Pacific.
- Hybrid capability: Provides the ability to create hybrid environments, allowing you to leverage on-premise resources and the benefits of the cloud without costly workarounds.
- Big data insights: Brings an Apache Hadoop solution to the cloud; these services are powerful, allowing to handle and analyze any amount of data at a time. It also integrates with Excel allowing it to visualize data in new ways to help uncover business insights.
- Keeping data secure: Provides high data security which is based on proven technology and tested around the globe.
- Provides regular backups: Can backup up to six copies of data across two separate Azure data centers, meaning they can guarantee 99.9% availability of backups if needed.
- Integrative data solution: Integrates data across the full line of Microsoft SaaS and PaaS offerings which allows doing more with ERP systems, CRM in a scalable environment that is faster, secure, and more reliable.
Azure Management benefits:
- Automation: Allows automating tasks in an Azure environment. By creating workflows, it can eliminate the time spent on monitoring and maintaining the resources in the cloud environment, thus lowering overhead costs and allowing for focus on value-added business work.
- API Management: Allows publishing APIs to the various marketplace for increased security.
- Scheduling: Allows the creation of jobs on simple or complex recurring schedules. Azure gives the ability to create actions that call HTTP or HTTPS endpoints or post messages to a storage queue for long-running or offline jobs.
- Ability to run virtual machines: Can help in deploying premium virtual machines in minutes including Linux and Windows servers with availability across the globe.
- Developer collaboration and options: Comes with Visual Studio Online and Application Insights, which provides enhanced collaboration between development teams in an integrative secure environment; it also provides the option to create new applications in ASP, ASP.net, PHP, Python, or Node.js.
Businesses today are required to quickly and simply adopt the latest changes, and move onto the cloud platform within the business environment. Cloud computing provides all the tools to affect these situations and to avoid over-investing in technology to satisfy peak demand or scale for growth.
