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BCN have a heritage of delivering outcomes through our cloud-first services and currently support over 1200 customers across specialist sectors.
About Us
Your tech partner
As a Microsoft Solutions Partner, BCN have advanced expertise across the Microsoft Azure cloud stack, providing end-to-end cloud infrastructure services and solutions.
Microsoft Azure provides the secure, scalable, and intelligent foundation your organisation needs to thrive. Whether success means driving innovation, improving efficiency, or expanding your reach, it all starts with the right technology. Azure empowers your teams with smarter systems, sharper insights, and the flexibility to build, deploy, and manage applications and workloads effortlessly – all while securely storing and processing your data.
Microsoft Azure is the leading, global cloud platform. It’s growing number of integrated cloud services provide a complete solution for businesses looking to improve the productivity, increase their efficiency and enhance their flexibility.
With Azure, businesses can build infrastructure, develop, deploy and run applications, manage identity, and set up reliable back-up and disaster recovery options and more.
Designed to provide a secure, future-proofed infrastructure and hosting platform, Azure is the long-term solution to enable strategic business goals.
Benefits of Azure
With Microsoft Azure, customers can enjoy a range of benefits, including cost savings, scalability, and increased productivity. Azure allows businesses to pay only for the services they use, reducing costs and enabling them to scale up or down as needed. Here’s a run-down of 5 key benefits of investing in Microsoft Azure.
The cloud unlocks powerful opportunities for innovation, enabling smarter use of AI, deeper data insights, and seamless automation to drive growth and agility.
Customers can scale their environments up or down as needed to meet demand, whether that is seasonal or organic growth within your business.
Azure’s management and monitoring tools allow us to monitor, manage, and optimise our customers resources and applications.
Azure allows businesses to pay only for the services they use, reducing expensive up-front hardware purchases & on-premises maintenance costs.
Azure cloud also offers best-in-breed security for all your workloads & data, and Azure holds a wide range of compliance certifications to meet even the most stringent of requirements across any industry or sector.
Azure’s powerful analytics tools also help businesses gain valuable insights and make data-driven decisions, while its robust security features ensure that data is always protected.
BCN optimises your Microsoft Azure for peak performance, backed by expert resources, and an industry-leading Managed Services Provider.
The BCN Azure team are experts in Azure, with all the knowledge and experience necessary.
Why BCN
BCN can deliver value at any point in your Azure journey, whether you are migrating to the cloud, looking for more from your current investments, or ready to maximise the potential of you Azure environment. Here’s why over 1600 clients choose us:
Alignment to Microsoft best practice including Cloud Adoption Framework, ensuring a structured approach from the initial strategy and planning all the way to in-life management.
Over 200 accredited staff and deep expertise in Azure to ensure our client's environments are optimised with cost, security, and governance in mind.
Proactive monitoring and technical support to minimise downtime and disruptions whilst maximising value.
Security first approach when migrating and managing workloads in Azure, leveraging best in class Azure native security features.
Ensuring Azure migrations are well planned and align to your goals to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.
Whether its modernising by leveraging Data & AI or Cloud Native Services, or driving continuous improvement through Cloud Optimisation such as implementing FinOps practices, we can help you drive success in your business.
Our Microsoft Expertise
Microsoft Funding
Due to our deep relationship and accreditations with Microsoft we can leverage various Microsoft funding programmes to support your cloud journey, depending on your eligibility.
Our expert consultants will conduct a thorough evaluation of your current setup, providing you with valuable insights and recommendations tailored to your unique business requirements. We will equip you with the knowledge and insight you need to make informed decisions about prioritising workloads for cloud migration. By leveraging these insights, you can ensure your cloud strategy is both effective and aligned with business goals. If applicable, customers can be eligible for funding for the Proof of Value.
Funding to support the deployment for building an enterprise scale landing zone and migration of workloads to Azure. Eligible workloads include Migrating Windows Server to Azure, Migrating Linux to Azure, Migrating SQL and OSS databases to Azure. If applicable, customers can be eligible for funding towards the deployment and migration.
AZURE & CLOUD SERVICES
BCN optimises your Microsoft Azure for peak performance, backed by expert resources, and an industry-leading Managed Service Provider.
BCN have been a trusted Cloud Migration partner for businesses of all shapes and sizes, for over 10+ years. If you’re looking to move to the cloud, we’re here to help.
The Cloud offers a wide range of possibilities for your IT environment, but with ease of use & flexibility comes risk. BCN can help optimise your cloud environment to meet your business requirements.
Get seamless access to virtualised desktops and applications from anywhere with BCN’s Azure Virtual Desktop service. Empower your business with the flexibility, scalability, and security for it needs for its digital transformation journey.
Store your data and applications with BCN’s Azure Platform as a Service (Azure PaaS); a managed cloud environment for application development, data management, and integration.
A set of standardized Azure environment configurations to kickstart your cloud journey. Enable seamless deployment and confident management of cloud resources with Azure Landing Zones.
Our Monitoring as a Service (MaaS) is a comprehensive solution that provides end-to-end monitoring of your IT infrastructure and applications, ensuring they are optimized for performance, availability, and security.
Our Managed Backup service provides a single platform for all your data backup needs. Reducing the risks associated with multiple data silos, whilst maximising cost optimisation and increasing operational efficiencies.
Hosting
Microsoft Azure allows organisations to run Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) or Software as a Service (SaaS) workloads, without having to manage any physical hardware. Depending on which Azure’s services you opt for, you can take advantage of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS all on Microsoft’s platform with our help.
Azure IaaS allows you to outsource your network and server requirements to Azure and retain control of your operating systems and software. Access over 200 IaaS facilities, from compute and networking to security and storage
Azure PaaS delivers a cloud-powered development platform on a pay-as-you-go basis. Whether it’s the smallest web app to enterprise level software, automatic scaling means there is no need to worry about server configurations.
Azure SaaS allows you to host the apps you’ve created, and get access to Microsoft SaaS products such as Outlook, SharePoint, and Microsoft 365, all built on Azure. Take advantage of powerful technology and intelligence tools like Microsoft analytics and machine learning.
Our Customers
Customer Stories
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With their outdated infrastructure fast approaching the end of vendor support, Southway Housing Trust needed to find a modern solution and a provider who could deliver it quickly. The not-for-profit organisation, which provides quality affordable housing in south Manchester, didn’t simply want to upgrade their systems, they wanted to build a new modern, cloud-first IT environment. BCN was able to quickly and successfully migrate the trust and its more than 300 users to a bespoke Azure infrastructure that provides a flexible, scalable and secure environment that’s fit for the future.
With a forward-thinking IT team and an objective to optimise both the IT environment and costs, Network sought a tech partner that could deliver both by re-platforming its lifted-and-shifted Azure environment, strengthening RTO and security posture and driving cost efficiencies. BCN worked closely with Network’s dev team to create a bespoke Infrastructure as Code solution that delivers unparalleled security and recoverability, while streamlining costs both immediately and for the future.
Over the past four years Schofield Sweeney has partnered with BCN to deliver its ambitious IT roadmap, including its transition to Microsoft Azure, alongside enhanced user support and security to enable more agile working and free the IT team to explore AI innovation and automation.
FAQs
Cloud hosting generally provides better securing than shared hosting due to resource isolation, scalability, redundancy, and dedicated security features. However, it is important to note that security is a shared responsibility and it is key to implement securing practices such as updates and patching and regular backing up of data.
A cloud server refers to a virtualised server that functions in a cloud computing environment. It is a virtual machine (VM) running on a group of computers hosted in data centres, where scalable computer resources like processing speed, memory, and storage are made available.
Where your data is stored depends on the specific cloud service provider you choose. Most cloud providers have data centres located in multiple regions and even counties. When data is stored on cloud servers, it is normally distributed across multiple physical servers within these centres for redundancy and fault tolerance.
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