CloudOps blog

With so many organisations wanting to improve IT performance and reduce costs, maximising operational use of the cloud has become a key priority for internal teams. Solutions like Microsoft Azure can provide a business with an almost limitless set of possibilities from just moving infrastructure through to delivering software and services in the cloud to end users.

Before April 2020, it had already been predicted that over 80% of all workloads and applications could move to the cloud by the end of the year because of the greater flexibility it gives application providers and users.

In this article, we will explore the concept of designing cloud architecture with Azure resilience in mind and discuss best practices to achieve it. We will also look at how our experience as a Microsoft Azure partner can help you shortcut the learning curve.

The cloud gives businesses the potential to transform the way they manage their infrastructure and to reduce their ongoing storage and compute costs when compared to traditional physical infrastructure. With greater flexibility in terms of the amount of resource that is deployed, virtualisation can improve application performance and simplify technology management.

Following the initial migration of your IT services to the cloud, you may find that as your needs change, you find your Azure costs rising.  This is normal:  adding more services, or upgrading the virtual machines that you run to improve performance will naturally incur higher charges.  It’s important to manage your cloud costs in order to allow for efficient scale.

With the best will in the world, businesses of any size, implementing or managing their cloud deployment are unlikely to have enough in-house experience or time to tackle all aspects of Azure – minimise costs and maximise efficiency.

By taking advantage of the cloud, Microsoft Azure ISV Partners (independent software vendors)  can increase their margin through increased revenues and reduced infrastructure costs.  It’s not all plain sailing through, there can be hidden challenges in a migration to Azure including rising costs due to higher than expected consumption, and a need for specialist technical skills.

How do you make something good even better?

Azure Scalability

Scalability specifically in Azure is one of the most important aspects of cloud planning, and yet it is regularly overlooked.

Moving to the cloud with Microsoft Azure can bring significant benefits to a business including reducing overall IT costs and improving business resilience but as with any change, there are always some challenges.