With an increasingly higher number of organizations pursuing digital strategies, Businesses are shifting from legacy systems to the cloud based solutions. Most of them are shifting to Microsoft Azure cloud and as shown by various surveys, its usage has increased tremendously.

“Microsoft is the most-used Public Cloud and the most likely to be purchased or renewed” – a study done by Cowen and Company Equity Research and reported by Forbes.

This Azure momentum has been possible because of what Azure offers and stands for – a comprehensive and secure Cloud platform across PaaS and IaaS, offering benefits like first-class support for Linux and open-source tooling, unparalleled integration with Office 365, unique hybrid experience with Azure Stack and a robust geo-spread infrastructure.

Large enterprises as well as small companies, all are leveraging Azure to optimize their cloud use, fuel business growth and reinvent themselves.

Below are just some of the capabilities that Microsoft Azure offers and business benefits of using Azure that every organization requires to succeed in this cloud first world.

Quick provisioning of Virtual Machines

Azure gives businesses the capability to create virtual machines – Windows or Linux, in just few minutes and a choice to select them either from Azure Market place templates or from own VM images. These VMs help businesses to host their apps and services as if hosted in their own data center environment.

Managed relational SQL database services

This cloud database service by Azure enables easy building of apps and their management too. It allows businesses to work in their preferred development environment – tools and platform. SQL databases help businesses to minimize their hardware, software expenses, other overheads and the need for in-house expertise.

Application services

App service of Azure makes it easier for businesses to create and deploy enterprise grade applications worldwide, on all devices or for popular platforms. This quick creation helps companies automate business processes faster and respond quickly to the ebb and flow of business, which in turn saves their time and money simultaneously. They can also manage production, testing and deployment of web applications that have the capability to scale on demand of the businesses.

Azure gives you freedom to find and use what you need to get the job done, with access to a wide array of components and services delivered by Microsoft and certified Microsoft Azure partners.

Highly available and scalable storage

Microsoft’s global infrastructure provides secure, highly durable, available and scalable data storage to businesses, packaged with ensured data security and increased agility.

Its massive scalability and flexible pricing structure lets businesses store accessed data infrequently and save huge money.

MDSC1, the Microsoft Azure cloud provider in UAE and across the world, helps you provision storage as much as you want with our multi-site replication mechanism and a variety of interfaces.

Disaster recovery and backup

Disasters are a nightmare for every business as they not only come uninformed but also in different forms. With Azure’s high-speed and geographically spread infrastructure, businesses get unlimited options for disaster recovery.

With Azure, companies can run their critical applications and workloads from redundant sites during recovery periods, that last minutes or hours instead of days.

With MDSC1, businesses get enterprise storage and disaster recovery solution- StorSimple appliance which they can use to store their data on premises, for long term backup.

We offer low cost disaster recovery and automated data management for increased IT agility and better compliance.

Logging and monitoring capabilities

Azure offers integrated health monitoring and alert capabilities’ basic tools that businesses need for error logging and monitoring, diagnostics, and troubleshooting. This helps them get seamless business continuity.

So, with Microsoft Azure, you get modern flexibility to spin up new services and scale your data storage capabilities globally and secure it on the go. It further eliminates the need for new hardware, purchasing of OS along with its quick provisioning and deployment capabilities.

This flexibility makes Azure a tempting solution for organizations of all sizes. Smart, researched investment into cloud capabilities offered by Microsoft Azure cloud help them face tomorrow’s technological challenges and possibilities relatively painlessly.

Why Microsoft Azure with MDSC1?

MDSC1, the secure and reliable Microsoft certified cloud partner in UAE, offers multiple support services including consulting, migration and 24×7 assistance to customers.

We help you migrate your existing apps to Azure, provide all computing facilities from Azure IaaS, SaaS to PaaS and build simple or complex test/dev infrastructure in a very short span and also reactivate pre-configured test/dev infrastructure in no time. Our Azure multifactor authentication helps our clients secure their cloud applications.

We are the one stop shop for Azure and ensure that your Azure experience is seamless.

Visit https://www.mdsc1.com/ to learn more about our services.

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