Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform developed by cloud market leader Microsoft, meant to build, deploy, and manage applications and services via Microsoft managed data center network. Microsoft Azure is transforming the business use of technology. The main reason that could be attributed is that it supports varied operating systems, databases, programming languages, tools and, devices. Microsoft stands as one of the leading Cloud market leaders that provide Infrastructure as a service [IaaS], Software-as-a-Service [SaaS] and Platform-as-a-Service[PaaS]. Microsoft is among the other seven enterprise-cloud service providers include Amazon, IBM, Salesforce, Oracle, SAP, and Google.
Gartner names Microsoft Azure Cloud as the leader in the Cloud IaaS MQ for the fourth consecutive year.
Below is the list of 11 business benefits offered by the Microsoft Azure Cloud :
1. Apps management:
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) benefits the organizations to build, deploy, and manage the services/apps easily. One can host the website or create a web app and maintain the infrastructure by customizing.
2. Flexibility:
Microsoft Azure provides flexibility by providing the option to use the functionality as required. You can pay as you use.
3. Agility:
Being the most up to date cloud technology, Azure is fast in terms of deployment, operation, and scalability giving you competitive advantage for the companies to adopt Azure.
4. Compliance:
The data stored in Azure Data Center is in compliance with the regulations which is very much helpful especially for the legal or the finance sectors.
5. Storage:
Microsoft Azure has several data centers and delivery points at different locations which provides faster content delivery, optimal user experience, store any data, and also able to share the data across the virtual machines.
6. Security:
The data stored on Azure is secured and protected with multiple layers of security. The data centers have two-tier authentication, proxy card access readers, hand geometry biometric readers, global incident response team.
7. Analytics Support:
Azure provides support options to analyze data and derive insights which help in managed SQL services, Machine Learning, Stream and Cortana Analytics. So that business decisions are made smarter leading to new opportunities.
8. Unified Delivery Plan:
Azure provides the tools for unit testing, delivery, source control, go live tools, or the integration testing are all available under one umbrella.
9. Disaster Recovery:
The disaster recovery capabilities of Azure like regional/global fail over options; rolling reboots, and the hot/cold standby modes gives a stronghold for against disasters, thus enables you to stay online 24/7.
10. Deployed Anywhere:
Microsoft has Azure stack offering provides all the benefits to clients. It enables the businesses to select their data storage and any related transition easy.
11. Updates:
Azure provides automated software updates in real-time so that the infrastructure and applications are adept to the day which helps the business to grow faster
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