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Microsoft Azure is a leading global cloud computing platform, offering a comprehensive suite of services designed to help businesses transform their IT operations. With its robust capabilities, Azure enables organisations to build, deploy, and manage applications seamlessly through Microsoft’s secure, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure. Whether your focus is on enhancing productivity, driving innovation, or reducing operational costs, Azure provides the tools and flexibility to achieve your goals.
Azure stands out as a versatile and feature-rich platform, offering businesses a reliable foundation for digital transformation.
Azure allows businesses to scale their IT environments quickly to meet changing demands—whether for seasonal fluctuations or organic growth. Its hybrid capabilities also give businesses the flexibility to run applications in the cloud, on-premises, or in hybrid environments, ensuring optimal performance and adaptability without the need for costly hardware upgrades.
With a pay-as-you-go model, Azure offers significant cost savings by ensuring you only pay for the resources you use. Tools like Azure Cost Management help monitor and optimise spending, while programmes such as Azure Hybrid Benefit allow you to reduce costs by leveraging existing on-premises licenses for Windows Server and SQL Server.
Azure provides enterprise-grade security for all workloads, combining encryption, firewalls, multi-factor authentication, and identity management through Azure Active Directory. Additional tools such as Azure Security Centre and Azure Sentinel offer proactive threat detection, monitoring, and compliance reporting, making Azure one of the most secure cloud platforms available.
Azure empowers businesses to harness the power of their data. Services such as Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Data Factory enable real-time data processing, analysis, and insights to support informed, data-driven decision-making.
For organisations already using Microsoft 365, Azure provides seamless integration with tools like Windows Server, Office 365, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams. This ensures a consistent user experience and simplified workflows for IT teams.
Microsoft Azure offers three key cloud service models: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), two, Platform as a Service (PaaS), and three, Software as a Service (SaaS). Depending on which Azure service you opt for, you can take advantage of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS all on Microsoft’s platform with our help. This allows organisations to choose the best option for their needs:
Azure IaaS provides virtualised computing resources such as virtual machines, storage, and networking. Ideal for businesses needing full control over their IT environment, IaaS enables the deployment and management of applications without the expense and complexity of maintaining physical infrastructure.
With Azure PaaS, businesses can build, deploy, and manage applications without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. Developers benefit from reduced operational complexity, enabling them to focus on innovation while Azure handles updates, scalability, and security.
Azure SaaS allows organisations to access fully managed applications via a web browser, such as Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and other enterprise solutions. This model reduces the need for infrastructure management while ensuring automatic updates and scalability for enhanced productivity.
Azure provides flexible pricing models and tools to optimise cloud spending. With Azure Cost Management and Azure Reserved Instances, businesses can reduce long-term costs and achieve maximum return on investment.
Azure boasts one of the largest compliance portfolios in the industry, with certifications including GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and SOC 1/2/3. This makes Azure an ideal choice for businesses in highly regulated industries like healthcare, finance, and government.
With data centres in over 60 regions worldwide, Azure ensures high availability, disaster recovery, and low-latency access for businesses operating on a global scale.
In the age of AI, Azure provides powerful tools like Azure AI, Azure Machine Learning, and Cognitive Services to help businesses innovate and stay competitive.
At BCN, we are an industry-leading Microsoft Solutions Provider backed by expert resources. This gives us the credentials to provide Managed Azure Services with knowledge and experience, helping you in all aspects of the platform. We also specialise in Azure cloud optimisation and management, as well as Hybrid and Private Cloud optimisation. We focus on optimising for security, cost and performance based on your business needs and industry best practices.
Reach out to us today to find out how we can help you leverage the power of the cloud to transform your business.
With a proven track record of providing cloud migration services for hundreds of businesses for over 10 years, our experience and expertise in this area make us well-suited to support your digital objectives. With 6 specialisations, 1,600 customers, more than 450 members of staff and a client retention rate of 98%, these accolades demonstrate how we can be your trusted IT solutions team.
We are also one of the UK’s leading Microsoft Partners, which means that Microsoft has recognised us as having proven expertise and experience delivering Azure and Microsoft 365 services to any organisation for any scenario. You can rest assured that your business is in good hands.
Regardless of your cloud journey, BCN has scalable, adaptable and secure infrastructure and cloud solutions to support your business goals.
