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How agile is your organization? Can you respond to emerging business needs fast enough to stay ahead of the competition? Are you able to provide the level of service your customers demand? In this edition of Connect with Experts, we explore how Microsoft Azure can help your organization move faster, do more, and save money.
Join PC Connection’s cloud experts, Kevin O’Connor, Senior Director of Cloud Practice, and Lane Shelton, Vice President of Business Software Development, as they discuss the features and benefits of Microsoft Azure.
MICROSOFT AZURE How to Boost Agility, Flexibility, and Savings
Q: WHAT IS MICROSOFT AZURE?
Kevin O’Connor A: Microsoft Azure is a public cloud platform that provides compute, data, application, and network services in a public cloud environment. It’s a hosted environment that clients can bring their workloads to or design new workloads to run in.
Lane Shelton A: It’s like having access to a 24 x 7 x 365 data center that is not your data center.
Q: WHY ARE ORGANIZATIONS MOVING WORKLOADS TO AZURE?
Kevin O’Connor A: We’ve seen clients moving to the Microsoft Azure platform to augment their existing infrastructure when additional capacity is necessary—or when they would prefer to run a workload out of the public cloud environment. Azure can be adopted as a hybrid cloud platform as well, and it integrates seamlessly with the Windows Data Center layer and Active Directory technologies that many organizations have in their environments.
If you’re preparing for major application revisions, you can park a workload in the Azure environment because it integrates seamlessly. You can go through and do whatever infrastructure upgrades and maintenance you need to do and then bring that workload back over fairly seamlessly.
Q: WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST BENEFITS OF AZURE?
Lane Shelton A: Azure is Microsoft’s cloud—it’s always there, always on, and you have the ability to put your infrastructure in that data center as opposed to inside your four walls. So, you’re only paying for what you use. There’s a lot of fl exibility there.
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Companies today have a lot of diff erent cloud applications. They’re using CRM—maybe it’s Dynamics, maybe it’s Salesforce—they’re using Box, they’re using OneDrive. They’ve got all these diff erent cloud applications out there. Through Azure you can actually create a portal that enables a single sign-on for your users to all of those multiple SaaS applications.
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