The cloud is transforming how businesses consume IT today by offering consumption-based resources and services that can scale up or down as needed.

Microsoft Azure makes it easy to scale up or down as your business needs change – you can save time, effort and money on back-up, disaster recovery, and security management workloads.

As part of our series of examining the detail behind the buzzword of ‘cloud’, we’ve put together a few easy to get started in moving your data to the cloud.

  • Data back-up: With Azure back-up solutions, you can protect your data and applications to avoid costly business interruptions or to meet compliance requirements. Securely extend your on-premises backup storage and data archiving solutions to the cloud—reducing cost and complexity, while achieving efficiency and scalability.
  • Disaster recovery: Even a minor outage can put you at a competitive disadvantage. So, be ready with a business continuity plan that includes disaster recovery for all your major IT systems—without the expense of secondary infrastructure.
  • Security: With an increase in security breaches and cybercrimes, companies are rightfully concerned about the security of their data in the cloud. Azure has several industry-leading options for managing and monitoring your assets.

Microsoft have also cited a McKinsey study that found SMBs are able to reduce costs by as much as 50% by moving to an Infrastructure-as-a-Service solution. And, according to AMI research, roughly one quarter of small businesses and one half of mid-sized businesses plan to shift their budgets to more cloud spending over on-premises spending.

Check out this short video on how Azure Cloud can help your business from a security standpoint.

Want to find out more?

As Microsoft Gold Partners, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on the solutions and how they could be effectively deployed in your business.

To find out more please call us on 01274 396 213 or use our contact form and we’ll arrange a good time to call you back.

 

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