How to get started with Cloud for your business
Successfully build your cloud business with key financial and technical guidance from the Experts in CoClouds
Successfully build your cloud business with key financial and technical guidance from the Experts in CoClouds
Discover technical and financial flexibility, efficiencies, and capabilities on the cloud that are not possible with on-premises IT infrastructure. Choose the right short- and long-term cloud solutions for your needs and get greater return on your cloud investment with key financial and technical guidance from Azure and best practises from top organisations.
Plan a successful cloud adoption with a well-defined strategy.
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Discover technical and financial flexibility, efficiencies, and capabilities on the cloud that arent possible with on-premises IT infrastructure. Choose the right short- and long-term cloud solutions for your needs and get greater return on your cloud investment with key financial and technical guidance from Azure and best practises from top organisations.
There are three varieties of cloud. The public cloud moves your infrastructure from your data center to the cloud vendors facility. Private cloud creates an on-demand, virtualized infrastructure on your own premises. With hybrid cloud, some of your processing occurs in your private cloud and some in the public cloud, perhaps to support periods of high demand.
The cloud is also closely associated with the “as a Service” model of delivery. There are three major “as a Service” varieties. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) delivers only the compute, storage, and networking capabilities on demand. Platform as a Service (PaaS) adds tools for developing applications in the cloud. Software as a Service (SaaS) offers applications on a subscription basis.
You might be asking, what is cloud computing? Why are people moving towards the cloud and away from traditional systems of storing their data?
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services over the internet, as opposed to on a traditional physical server.
But why is this better? Simply put, cloud computing gives you more control. Its also a more efficient, and cost-effective method of storing your data than traditional methods.
Its easy to see why the cloud seems like the better choice for businesses. But implementing and executing a cloud strategy can seem daunting, especially if you have large amounts of sensitive data that needs to be migrated. We believe this process can be summarised into four key steps for cloud success.
The first step should be determining what issues you want to solve by moving to the cloud. Collect data on how your data is currently stored and used, here are some questions you could ask:
A cloud solution could help with any of the above issues, and more. Moving to the cloud can also simplify deployments, for example, you can automate your infrastructure services and applications using pipelines, this helps reduce errors and increase efficiency along with Windows Azure to help you reduce operational costs and save time. By reflecting on these issues, you will create business goals that can be achieved via cloud solutions.
Streamline operations and focus on what matters most for your business like expediting app development by reducing your datacentre footprint.
Enable future growth with flexible, pay-per-use, on-demand cloud benefits and take advantage of an operational expenditure model rather than a traditional capital expenditure model.
Reduce downtime and free up your IT staff from maintenance and patching tasks to spend more time optimising and innovating.
Build a clean-energy future and make progress toward your sustainability and business goals with sustainable technologies from Azure.
Scale elastically by delivering the right amount of IT resources for example, more or less computing power, storage, bandwidth right when they are needed, and from the right geographic location.
Build resilience and meet compliance requirements proactively with security thats built from the earth up, backed by a team of experts, and trusted by enterprises, governments, and start ups.
Ensure business continuity for mission critical systems that cannot tolerate interruption in service with high availability cloud infrastructure from Azure.
Boost workload, operational, and cost efficiencies with free, enterprise grade management tools, cost saving offers, and innovative managed services from Azure.
