Looking to reduce your operating costs and improve business growth? Migrating to Microsoft Azure Cloud can help you with that.
Before exploring, understand what exactly cloud computing is?
Cloud computing is the delivery of cloud services over the internet. Users can access the cloud services via internet. The computing services includes storage, servers, databases, software data analytics, intelligence, machine learning and more.
What is the best available cloud platform?
When it comes to cloud platform, Microsoft Azure is worth it.
Microsoft Azure is an excellent cloud platform that enables businesses of all sizes to become successful in the market that offers a range of cloud-based products and services. The services offered by Azure are available on a pay-as-you-go model and will help you meet your existing and future challenges.
Azure has everything to build solutions that drive growth and productivity. It provides tools, frameworks and programming languages to develop applications for your business. You can create, test and launch applications on your terms.
How can you use Microsoft Azure Services?
Importantly, get the consultation from top Microsoft Azure Partner
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Our Azure consultants are committed to your business success with comprehensive support, deployment, training and integration.
What can you do with Azure?
Azure Cloud offers a range of services that helps you a lot of things from running existing applications on Linux or Windows virtual machines, to exploring intelligent chatbots, IOT and mixed reality. Many companies have migrated their existing applications to virtual machines running in Azure. Azure makes the communication easy with users by providing AI and machine learning services. AI and machine learning services can naturally communicate with users via speech, hearing and vision.
Azure also provides storage services to store and manage your growing business data. The advantage is that it scales up as your data grows.
Let us understand about Azure services:
The services offered are categorized by categories – Compute, Networking, Storage, Mobile, Database, Web, Internet of things, Big data, AI, and DevOps.
Compute:
Compute services are among the primary reasons why enterprises migrate to Azure Cloud Platform. Azure offers a broad array of options for hosting applications and services. Some compute service examples:
- App service: Easily create and deploy apps and API’s as per your needs. Use a range of languages and frameworks such as .NET, .NET code, Node.js, Python, and Java.
- Azure Virtual machines: Run your workloads on Linux or Windows virtual machines. Azure VMware solution: Run VMware applications on Azure.
- Linux Virtual Machines: provide virtual machines for Ubuntu, Red Hat and more. Other services include Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Service Fabric, Azure Batch, Azure Functions and more.
You can explore more Compute services in Azure.
Networking:
Linking resources to cloud and providing access to cloud applications is the primary functioning of Azure Networking service. It provides options to connect to various services and features in the global Azure datacenters. Here are some of the services:
- Azure Virtual Network: It connects virtual machines to VPN (virtual private network) connections. Azure VPN Gateway: Establish secure connectivity.
- Azure Web Application Firewall: Provides superior protection for web apps.
- Azure Load Balancing: Efficiently distribute network traffic for high availability and performance. Azure Virtual WAN: Creates WAN (wide area network) that connects local and remote sites.
You can explore more networking services in Azure.
Security:
Azure comes with advanced security measures to protect your business from threats across the cloud.
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud: It identifies any flaws in the cloud configuration and strengthens the security of the environment.
- Azure DDoS protection: protects your applications against DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks.
- Azure Firewall: Deploy high-performance firewall to protect your Azure virtual networks. Other security services include Azure active directory, Application Gateway, Web Application Firewall and more.
Storage:
The four types of storage services provided by Azure include Azure Blob storage, Azure File Storage, Azure Queue Storage, and Azure Table Storage. Azure Blob storage is to store large video files or bitmaps.
Azure File storage is to store and manage files, Azure Queue Storage is for queuing and consistently delivering messages between applications, and Azure Table Storage is to store unstructured data.
Mobile:
With Mobile Service, developers can build mobile back-end services for Windows, IOS, and Android mobile apps easily.
Database:
Azure provides a range of database services to store various types of data. It includes Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Synapse Analytics and more. Web: Azure provides services to build and host powerful websites. To support web application development services, Azure offers Static Web Apps, Web App for Containers, Azure SignalR Service, and more.
IOT (internet of things):
Smart devices that are online-capable are able to generate valuable information from smart watches to smart thermostat to even smart refrigerators. You can bring IOT to any device using many services on IOT. The services include IoT Central, Azure IOT Hub, and IoT Edge.
Big data:
Data comes from various sources. Large amounts of data make it difficult to analyze and make decisions. Azure presents a range of services that helps you deal with Big data and analytics. The services include Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure HDInsight, and Azure Databricks.
AI (artificial intelligence):
AI in Azure encompasses various services and the core of everything is machine learning. It makes apps and devices by providing recommendations, predictions and so. For example; product recommendations when you shop online or detecting fraud when you make credit card payments and so on. The service includes Azure Machine Learning Service and Azure ML Studio.
Azure is now a preferred cloud platform across the healthcare, finance, retail, and manufacturing sector. And depending on your requirements, your Microsoft Partner can help you pick the suitable service that comes with essential services and capabilities. Before migrating to Microsoft Azure Cloud, get expert guidance from the leading Microsoft Azure Partners in the UAE.