Azure one of the best tools as a cloud solution What is the future for Microsoft Azure?
Microsoft Azure is a flexible cloud computing platform that enables enterprises to build, deploy and manage applications throughout. Microsoft manages its partner hosted data centers. It has the capability to integrate the public cloud applications with the current IT environment and helps to build applications using any framework, language or tools.
Many IT professionals and enterprises are adapting to Azure technology to overcome on-premise server capabilities as this is one of the most powerful cloud platform with flexibility and scalability.
Some reasons that make Azure one of the best tools as a cloud solution.
Effectively integrates with other Microsoft tools
For enterprises that rely on Microsoft tools such as SharePoint, Office 365 and Outlook, Azure is the best option as it integrates effectively with these tools.
Faster time to market
You don’t have to worry about the fundamental platform or infrastructure and focus only on developing application functionalities. It will help completing your app development in a fraction of the time and thus reducing the time to market.
Lower costs
It lowers the upfront costs by enabling pay-as-you-grow model (Paying only for what you use). The cost of developing, testing, and distributing web-based applications reduces as you have to pay only for processing time and storage space you need at a given time.
Reliability, security and compliance
The Online Services Security and Compliance team of Microsoft maintains the security control framework and introduces programs and policies to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and to manage security risks.
Increased scalability
You need not to worry about the server capacity when your app usage increases. You can move virtual hard disks between cloud servers and on-premises or can add additional capacity to ensure that your app is running smoothly.
Simplified data storage
Binary Large Objects (Blobs) are the easiest ways to store unstructured text and binary data like audio, video and images. The Export / Import feature of Azure will help to move this data in and out of Blob storage as required.
Future of Azure
The future of Azure looks very promising. Here are some of the investments Microsoft is making on the platform:
· They're opening 3 new Data Centers in India.These Data Center’s are located in Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderbad
· They have 20+ regions (excluding India)
· Microsoft Azure recently announced their IoT suite
· Containers support
I think they will be two main vendors in this space, Amazon and Microsoft, the rest, IBM, Oracle, etc, will have their own niche.
Customers of the Microsoft Azure Platform?
Do you know that 66% of the Fortune 500 companies use Azure? Microsoft has a very huge audience as it is one of the top leaders in the Cloud market. Some of the top Enterprises/organisations which have had Azure implement their solutions are:
· Adobe
· HP
· Alaska Airlines
· Mercedes-Benz
· Ubisoft
· Kohler
· Dell
· GoDaddy
· FedEx
· Yes bank
· HCL Infosystems
· Infosys
· Accenture, etc.
Some known Facts
Rolls Royce heavily uses the infrastructure capabilities of Azure. They expertly use machine learning and analytics capabilities of Azure. All service offering, security, and development environment setting of Azure is used by Rolls Royce.
GE is a well known company which uses the IaaS capabilities of Azure. It expertly used Azure’s integration capabilities into its development platforms.
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