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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 is a cloud computing platform that enables businesses to build, deploy, and manage applications and workloads with ease, securely store and process data, and run virtual machines.
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.
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.
AZURE & CLOUD SERVICES
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.
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.
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.
East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) is renowned across the UK’s public health sector as a pioneer of continuous quality improvement. ELFT now uses SPC Charts to provide its teams with intelligent insights in near real-time to support the prediction of future trends, the identification of variations and data-informed decision-making.
The IMI’s aim was clear, collaborate with a highly consultative IT partner to take the business forward from a financial reporting perspective. Initially chosen for a Sage 200 support role, a later requirement on analytics – specifically the implementation, visualisation, and surfacing of Sage 200 insights through Power BI – led to BCN working on the complex visualisation project of the IMI’s management accounts.
Due to an ineffective disaster recovery plan, P&B Foods suffered an unsophisticated malware attack, highlighting the need to transition to a new IT provider. BCN developed a clear strategy to accelerate their digital transformation, giving P&B the confidence they needed to plan for organic growth and make future strategic acquisitions.
MetroRod needed to migrate from their existing IT provider and needed a provider to help the business review and recreate their entire IT infrastructure, including designing an Azure environment, migrating business systems, replacing core systems and legacy technology among a plethora of other needs. Successfully delivering the project in the time frame, BCN continues to support the business’s digital transformation journey.
MCM are a creative consultancy comprised of architects, workplace strategists, and behavioural experts. They work with a range of businesses, redesigning physical office workspaces into holistic, sustainable solutions. BCN partnered with MCM and delivered a Microsoft Windows 10 virtual desktop available 24x7 and accessible from any device, whilst being protected with full backup and disaster recovery service level targets.
A family-owned auction company, based in Cheshire, with over 40 years of specialist knowledge in the construction industry. The business delivers unreserved auctions of Heavy Plant, Machinery, Agricultural, Construction Equipment and Vehicles.
Since 2009, Brand Potential has been using commercial and creative thinking to help brands looking for accelerator growth and long-term value. Choosing BCN as their IT provider, we provided a hybrid cloud solution, enabling Brand Potential to move into modern ways of working and ensuring that their system files were more secure and easy to use, as reflected by a 25% reduction in the number of hours lost to support issues.
MICROSOFT AZURE SERVICES
At BCN we are proud to be a Microsoft Solutions Partner, offering expert guidance and support to help businesses unlock the full potential of Microsoft Azure. Our highly experienced Azure development team are committed to delivering industry-leading infrastructure solutions.
Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you leverage the power of the cloud to transform your business
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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