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5 Things to Consider Before Signing Up to Microsoft Azure

5 Things to Consider Before Signing Up to Microsoft Azure

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.

Why are your Azure Costs Rising?

Why are your Azure Costs Rising?

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.

How Microsoft Azure ISV partners can profit from Azure

How Microsoft Azure ISV partners can profit from Azure

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 Azure helps your business achieve digital transformation

How Azure helps your business achieve digital transformation

As CIO, a question you should ask is why driving digital transformation important to your business?

A Digital Transformation strategy can unite and drive an organisation’s digital processes. With IT software and services at the core of most modern businesses, they are a core component of productivity and management information. Digital transformation can drive a business’ culture to be more responsive, more adaptable and able to scale up quickly.