What is Microsoft Azure?
Microsoft Azure is an internet-scale computing and service platform hosted in data centres that are managed or supported by Microsoft. It includes many separate features with corresponding developer services, which can be used individually or together. It is also known as IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) + PaaS (Platform as a Service). Microsoft Azure allows you to take your on-premise environment into the cloud, reducing management costs, overhead costs, and streamlining your business. Microsoft Azure is hosted in Data Centres in Ireland and the Netherlands and will be opening in the UK soon.
Microsoft Azure is economical and scalable
Azure can quickly scale up and down to match demand, so you only pay for what you use.
It’s everywhere.
Azure runs on a growing global network of Microsoft managed data centres across 13 regions.
It’s always up, always on.
You’ll share the same enterprise-tested platform that powers Skype, Office 365, Bing and Xbox.
Azure offers a 99.95% availability SLA, 24×7 technical support and round the clock service health monitoring.
It’s open and flexible.
Azure support any operating system, language, tool and framework like Windows or SQL Server.
It’s hybrid ready.
Some cloud providers make you choose between your own data centre and the public cloud. Not Azure. It’s enterprise proven hybrid cloud solutions give you the best of both worlds, expanding your IT options without added complexity.
With Azure, data storage, backup and recovery become more efficient and economical.
It’s also easier to build applications that span both on-premise and in the cloud.
Comtech Support can provide the following managed services on Azure.
Cloud Backup
We can give you a complete disaster recovery backup solution in the cloud for backup, failover and quick recovery of your business data.
Virtual Servers
We can “spin up” virtual servers in the cloud to run your business applications on or for testing new applications for a short period of time.
SQL Servers
We can migrate your old SQL server databases over to Azure SQL Servers that can be accessed by anyone in the cloud or setup a new SQL server for development work.
Website Hosting
We can host your website for you and monitor it’s uptime.
File Storage
We can provide you with scalable file storage and only pay for what you need. Access your files online from anywhere.
Microsoft Azure Plus
Azure plus gives you all the great features and benefits of Azure along with our Administration service for monitoring, supporting and managing your Azure service.