Azure: Your Data Center in the Cloud
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Microsoft Azure is a comprehensive cloud services platform used for application development, backup, and disaster recovery, offering significant cost savings compared to traditional infrastructure. The document discusses the advantages of Microsoft’s Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program, including reduced complexity, no upfront commitment, and various support options. Additionally, industry predictions indicate substantial growth in cloud spending, with optimization of cloud costs being a top priority for IT professionals.
Azure: Your Data Center in the Cloud
- 1. Azure: Your Data Center in the Cloud Microsoft® Azure® is a collection of integrated cloud services that developers and IT professionals use to build, deploy and manage applications. It provides a complete solution for backup, Disaster Recovery (DR), compute and storage while eliminating hardware depreciation and other costs and limitations of on-premise infrastructure. IDC predicts “greater cloud spending” will exceed $500B by 2020. Game changer: Microsoft’s Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program reduces the complexity of buying and using Azure. Why Insight for Azure on CSP? Insight consulting services include BlueMetal and Datalink offerings. Replication times Old way: 3 hours Azure Site Recovery: < 2 minutes vs. Optimizing cloud costs is the top initiative for 53% of IT pros. 38 regions online and growing G-series Virtual Machines (VMs) — the largest VMs in the market 100+ data centers CSP Azure • No upfront commit • Monthly consumption • 24/7 U.S.-based support • Monthly billing from Insight Enterprise Agreement (EA) • 3-yr. term, $12K annual min. • Commit adjusted annually • 4 support plans • Additional cost for support • Annual billing from Microsoft One of Microsoft’s largest Azure partners Microsoft Azure Circle partner Dedicated team of Azure specialists Pre-sales support 24/7 post-sales support at no additional cost Azure management portal demos Sources IDC. (2016). The Modern Microsoft Partner Series: Part 1: The Booming Cloud Opportunity. Weins, K. (2017, Feb. 15). Cloud Computing Trends: 2017 State of the Cloud Survey. Rightscale.com.