What is Microsoft Azure?
Microsoft Azure for Business is a growing collection of integrated cloud services that can be used for storage, analytics, computing, database, mobile, networking, and web. It can be used to replace or supplement your on-premise servers.
Why Microsoft Azure?
Modernize with cloud innovation
- Embrace cloud innovation as you migrate to gain agility, performance, and global scale. Maximize your productivity with fully-managed Azure services, and focus your energies on driving the business forward.
- Azure delivers unparalleled consistency, compatibility, and performance. Migrate your SQL Server databases without changing your apps.
- Migrate your mission-critical applications and workloads – Windows, SQL, Linux – to Azure IaaS, which delivers reliable infrastructure at global scale.
- Migrate your ASP.NET websites to Azure App Service for a highly productive experience, where Azure manages the infrastructure so you can focus on your apps.
Pay less with Azure
- Azure is the most cost-effective for Windows and SQL Server. Reduce TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) as you move to Azure using available unique offers & optimized infrastructure.
- Realize substantive cost savings with free extended security updates, Azure Hybrid Benefit, and optimized infrastructure.
- Azure offers free tools before, during, and after migration.
Pay less with Azure
- Azure is the most cost-effective for Windows and SQL Server. Reduce TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) as you move to Azure using available unique offers & optimized infrastructure.
- Realize substantive cost savings with free extended security updates, Azure Hybrid Benefit, and optimized infrastructure.
- Azure offers free tools before, during, and after migration.
Improve security and compliance
- Azure minimizes business risk by strengthening your security and compliance posture.
- Help meet compliance requirements with the most comprehensive certifications of any cloud provider.
- Never have to worry about another end of support cycle. Migrate your SQL Servers to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance, an ‘evergreen’ service that is kept patched and updated by Microsoft.
- Counter sophisticated cyberthreats with built-in, multi-layered controls in Azure. Your workloads get continuous protection with rich threat intelligence from Azure Security Center.
- Optimize for speed and control. Use Azure Blueprints to set up and govern your Azure environments and help ensure compliance during migration.
Improve security and compliance
- Azure minimizes business risk by strengthening your security and compliance posture.
- Help meet compliance requirements with the most comprehensive certifications of any cloud provider.
- Never have to worry about another end of support cycle. Migrate your SQL Servers to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance, an ‘evergreen’ service that is kept patched and updated by Microsoft.
- Counter sophisticated cyberthreats with built-in, multi-layered controls in Azure. Your workloads get continuous protection with rich threat intelligence from Azure Security Center.
- Optimize for speed and control. Use Azure Blueprints to set up and govern your Azure environments and help ensure compliance during migration.
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