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Microsoft Azure
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Azure, is the cutting edge cloud solution developed by Microsoft to build, test, deploy and manage advanced applications and services, through Microsoft-managed data centres.
By adopting Azure, you are employing a cloud-first approach to your business technology; through AI and machine learning you have the power to enhance business processes, unite your diversified workforce and transform your business.
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Our dedicated cloud team know Azure inside out.
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As a Microsoft Gold cloud specialist, we have the knowledge and skills required to support your journey to the cloud. Utilising the power of the Microsoft Azure platform, our experts are equipped to implement, manage and maintain and wide range of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS solutions.
Enable
Whether you need to support a transition from existing on-premises and hybrid environment, or are looking to optimise an existing public cloud solution – we’ll assess your existing posture and provide you with a detailed roadmap, to enable a successful migration to your unique Azure environment.
Enhance
Migrating to the cloud will empower and unite your business, but it’s imperative you adopt the most appropriate type of environment. Our Cloud Architects have industry leading qualifications and Microsoft Azure certifications to ensure your chosen cloud solution is optimised for your needs and unique to your business.
Key benefits
Why should you adopt Microsoft's cloud solution?
Unite your systems
Harnessing the power of Microsoft Azure provides you with the means to unify on premise, hybrid and cross cloud infrastructures – critical for those who need to employ a secure, cloud-first technology environment.
Seamless application development
In utilising Azure you can create bespoke applications, across on premise and cloud environments, enabling you to employ unique business critical applications, to help you improve productivity and efficiency.
Gain a resilient, scalable solution
Azure provides you with the capabilities to deploy scalable, protected, virtualised infrastructures, with additional control over the integration and management of you key applications and tools.
Utilise in built security
Via the Azure Security Centre you have the power to extend threat protection to any business system or network, a perfect solution for those with distributed offices and remote locations.
Gain crucial security insights
Microsoft’s Azure Sentinel, provides you with the power to stop threats with intelligent cyber security analytics – feel assured knowing your team is monitored and secure whether working on-site or remote.
Reduce expenditure
Migrating to Azure will remove the expense of setting up on-site servers and data centres, allowing your business to focus its crucial resources where needed most.
IN DEPTH DIVE
Understanding Azure
Azure IaaS
Azure IaaS
Azure’s Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is an instant computing infrastructure, provisioned and managed over the Internet.
IaaS quickly scales up and down with demand, only letting you pay for what you use. It helps you avoid the expense and complexity of buying and managing your own physical servers and other data centre infrastructure.
Each resource is offered as a separate service component, and you only need to rent a particular one for as long as you need it. A cloud computing service provider, such as Azure, manages the infrastructure, while you purchase, install, configure and manage your own software – operating systems, middleware and applications.
Azure IaaS is typically used to, test and develop cloud environments, host websites, provide you with the means to back up & recover data, support your web applications and crucially, provide you with big data analysis.
Azure PaaS
Azure PaaS
Azure’s Platform as a service (PaaS) is a complete development and deployment environment within the cloud, with resources that enable you to deliver everything from simple cloud-based apps to sophisticated, cloud-enabled enterprise applications.
Like IaaS, PaaS includes infrastructure – servers, storage and networking – but also middleware, development tools, business intelligence (BI) services, database management systems and more. PaaS is designed to support the complete web application life cycle: building, testing, deploying, managing, and updating.
Azure PaaS allows you to avoid the expense and complexity of buying and managing software licences, the underlying application infrastructure and middleware and additional development tools.
Azure SaaS
Azure SaaS
Software as a service (SaaS) allows users to connect to and use cloud-based apps over the Internet – Common examples are using e-mail and office tools such as Microsoft Office 365.
SaaS provides a complete software solution that you purchase on a pay-as-you-go basis.
You rent the use of an app for your organisation, and your users connect to it over the Internet, usually with a web browser. All of the underlying infrastructure, middleware, app software and app data are located in your provider’s data centre.
SaaS allows your organisation to get up and running quickly with an app, at minimal upfront cost.
Azure Security
Azure Security
Secure cloud-first solutions are at the heart of everything we do and with cyber security as a priority, we favour Microsoft’s Azure Security Centre. Providing robust security tools and insights, Azure’s Security Centre helps you prevent, detect, and respond to threats with increased visibility into and control over the security of your Azure resources.
Azure provides integrated security monitoring and policy management across all of your Microsoft subscriptions, helps detect threats that might otherwise go unnoticed, and works with a broad ecosystem of security solutions.
In addition, Security Centre provides a single security dashboard that surfaces alerts and recommendations that can be acted upon immediately.
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