4 Key Benefits of Azure

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Microsoft Azure is a name that’s making a lot of headlines in the cloud storage and business worlds now days. Designed for the modern business world, the flexible Azure cloud platform allows small and medium sized businesses to build, deploy, and manage applications by leveraging the power of Microsoft’s global network of data centres. The flexibility provides businesses with both Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capabilities.

Lets explore 4 key benefits of Azure.

1. Azure is closely integrated with other Microsoft tools:

For organisations that are reliant on Microsoft tools like SharePoint, Office 365 and Outlook, investing in a cloud platform that seamlessly integrates with Microsoft products makes sense. Organisations can also use the same virtual machines in Azure that they use on-premises, such as Windows and Linux, which further simplifies operations. Many industry experts expect Azure to slowly but surely gain adoption due to this ability to offer users a completely seamless and integrated service package.

2. Application Services

Companies can launch both customer applications and internal apps in the cloud, easily via Microsoft Azure. The cloud environment allows businesses to quickly deploy applications in the cloud, which saves on infrastructure costs while reducing the hardware and maintenance burdens on in-house IT management. Additionally, the pay-as-you go pricing and scalability structure of Azure allows SMBs to better manage their IT budgets by only paying for what they need.

3. Computing Power :

Azure’s flexible computing power gives small and medium sized business on-demand enterprise-level computing power. Virtual machines can be deployed in minutes providing additional processing power and storage. Azure also allows businesses to host websites on a secure cloud server that is managed by Microsoft and backed by their uptime guarantee, providing companies and their customers with reliable web hosting services. Moving these items to the cloud also gives companies a competitive advantage by making data, files, and entire machines that were traditionally hosted on-site available over the cloud both off-site and on mobile devices.

4. Storage

The longer a company is in business, the more digital information they accumulate. Over time, data is accessed less and less and eventually given archive status. To accommodate this archived data, businesses can purchase hardware or they can opt for cloud storage. Azure’s Blob storage is a service that allows businesses to store large amounts of unstructured data (i.e. text or binary data) and allows users to access that data from anywhere in the world through an active internet connection.

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