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Microsoft Azure’s services and their benefits to businesses
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00:00When it comes to the unstoppable development of technology, Cloud Computing has become a trend that most businesses trust in using it as one of the solutions for a security guarantee. Cloud Computing is also well-known because of reduces physical infrastructure costs. Microsoft Azure has been developed to catch up on the technology trend and satisfy most clients’ needs with Microsoft Azure’s services.
Microsoft Azure’s services, which are now similar to almost all technology and software users, is a cloud computing platform and an online portal, that permits users to access and manage services and cloud resources provided by Microsoft. These services comprise data storage, conversion, operation, and so on. In other words, Azure helps users eliminate all the limits. To get access to Microsoft Azure, users just need an Internet connection and the ability to connect to Azure Portal. No matter your business scale, Azure provides a comprehensive cloud solution for building global applications leveraging the cloud to satisfy enterprise requirements.
Microsoft Azure, which joined the market later compared with AWS but provides a variety of outstanding features, has become a considerable competitor. Businesses are willing to choose Microsoft Azure because of its efficiency and practicality.
Microsoft Azure paves the way for digital transformation and data migration so that they can save time and effort for other innovation and development processes. Businesses can migrate their applications and data from on-premises servers to the cloud easily. After eliminating physical infrastructure costs associated with storage, the company almost eliminates expenses for maintaining servers or investing in new ones. Additionally, it reduces server and data transmission costs.
Azure is also easy to work or integrate with other Microsoft software and services including SQL Server, Windows, SharePoint, and so on. Thanks to that, all confidential data is stored and protected better in terms of synchronization.
In addition, Azure helps businesses publish products and services to the market without a geographical barrier. In other words, Azure provides a global and secure solution for enterprises so that they can organize and manage their product and services worldwide.
Microsoft Azure is suitable for businesses due to their benefits for them. Azure provides several operating systems, frameworks, databases, devices, and programming languages that development teams believe are useful.
This contributes to consistency and stability in the development process. Azure also organizes and handles other development requests, including data platform, identity, security, and management, to ensure high productivity.
Last but not least, businesses are active in defining and identifying their needs based on Azure’s flexible payment method.
– Virtual Machines: It allows administrators to create, deploy, and manage Vendor Management Systems on an Azure cloud.
– Web sites: Businesses can manage websites. Administrators can create new or migrate an existing website to the cloud.
– Cloud Services: It supports enterprises to build and deploy applications with High-Availability Virtual private servers. It also appropriate with almost all programming language
– Mobile services: It enables businesses to build, deploy, and store data on mobile devices
– Traffic Manager: Businesses can manage and track user traffic in three ways: best performance, round Robin, or failover configuration.
– Virtual network: Public Cloud is available for businesses to extend on-premises data centers.
– Data management: Businesses can store data in SQL database or SQL Server Vendor Management Systems
– Business Analytics: Reporting and Analysis Services enable us to track and enrich data. Other services include Microsoft SharePoint Server, Windows Azure SQL Reporting, Windows Azure Marketplace, or HDInsight for Big Data
– HDInsight: Microsoft’s Hadoop brings 100% capability of Apache Hadoop solution to the cloud
– Cache: Azure Caching solution helps accelerate cloud application performance and diminish database load
– Backup: Protect your data server by taking a data backup
– Media services: Businesses can create and manage media solutions via Azure Public
– Messaging: Apps can be connected to private cloud environments and Azure public cloud environments
– Notification Hubs: Provides the ability to enhance and upgrade apps and coordinate multiple application platforms on mobile devices
– BizTalk Services: Business-to-business and Enterprise Application Integration for cloud and hybrid provisioning
– Active Directory: Enable identity management and access control
– Multifactor Authentication: Provides Authentication for an extra layer of security for both on-premises and cloud access.
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