Decoding the 11 Business Benefits of Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure refers to Microsoft Cloud. The Microsoft product Azure was announced way back in 2008, released on February 2010 as Windows Azure, and got renamed as Microsoft Azure in March 2014. New Role-based Certifications have come-up in the Microsoft Azure technology in January 2019.
 

Now, we all know that Azure is a cloud computing platform meant to build, deploy, and manage applications/services via Microsoft -managed data center network. It is influencing the businesses to a greater extent.
 

A few of the significant business benefits of Azure are depicted here.

Microsoft Azure, the Cloud computing platform is transforming the business’ use of technology. The main reason that could be attributed is that it supports varied operating systems, tools, databases, programming languages, and, devices.
 

Before decoding the business benefits it delivers, let us have a quick note on Microsoft as the cloud market leader and listen to the talk of the town.
 

• Microsoft stands as one among the five Cloud market leaders that provide Infrastructure as a service [IaaS], Platform-as-a-Service[PaaS] and Software-as-a-Service [SaaS].
• Gartner names Microsoft Azure as the leader in the Cloud IaaS MQ for the fourth consecutive year.
• According to Forbes, Microsoft is in the lead with a worldwide market share of over 17% and is now leading the SaaS vendor primarily due to its leadership growth in the high-growth collaboration segment. Enterprise adoption of Microsoft Azure increased significantly from 43% to 58% attaining a 35% CAGR.
• The seven biggest enterprise-cloud vendors include Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, Salesforce, Oracle, SAP, and Google. The publicly available earnings (revenue generated) reveal that Microsoft stands first with $6.9 billion, Amazon-$3.66 billion for the current calendar (2018-19).
   

These research readily makes think anyone that Microsoft may be the synonym for the cloud. It is extending its influence in all sectors of businesses owing to its practical benefits.
 

With these brief note on Microsoft, let us move onto the matter of the moment, Microsoft Azure and investigate its business benefits.
 

Azure has consistently contributed to the Microsoft"s revenue growth and regarded as the leader for infrastructure as a service [IaaS]. Being a powerful platform, it is suitable for small business and the established enterprise as well.
 

The benefits offered by the Azure are unique and business-centered. To mention a few, they are:
 

1. Apps management:

IaaS benefits the organization to build, deploy, and manage the apps in a quick and easier way. An organization can launch the website or create a web app and maintain the infrastructure by customizing the cloud software.
 

2. Flexibility:

Azure delivers an appreciable level of flexibility giving you the option to have functionality as required. You can pay as you consume, switch to Azure, accommodate the business fluctuations and, etc. Thus, there is no worry about the infrastructure all the time.
 

3. Agility:

Azure is fast in terms of deployment, operation, and scalability. This gives a competitive advantage for the companies to adopt Azure. Being the most up to date cloud technology, the infrastructure and applications could be made agile.
 

4. Compliance:

The data stored is in compliance with the regulations which is very much helpful especially for the legal or the finance sectors. It is entirely built around the security and privacy demands that any of the business would readily take the venture.  
 

5. Storage:

It is known that Azure has several data centers and delivery points. It facilitates for faster content delivery, optimal user experience, store any data, and also able to share the data across the virtual machines as required at a reliable and faster rate.
 

6. Security:

The data on Azure is protected by the spy-movie environment. The data centers have two-tier authentication, proxy card access readers, hand geometry biometric readers, global incident response team. Thus hacking is reduced to a greater extent.
 

7. Analytics Support:

Azure has built-in support to analyze data and derive insights which help in managed SQL services, Machine Learning, Stream and Cortana Analytics. Thus, your business decisions are made smarter leading to new opportunities.
 

8. Unified Delivery Plan:

Azure provides an end-to-end solution. All the tools for source control, unit testing, delivery, go live tools, or the integration testing are all available under one umbrella. This leads to no fear of issues related to integration and continuity.  
 

9. Disaster Recovery:

Staying Online all the time ensures customers/users’ trust. The disaster recovery capabilities of Azure like regional/global failover options; rolling reboots, and the hot/cold standby modes gives a stronghold for against disasters.
 

10. Deployed Anywhere:

Accepting the clients’ hybrid model approach, Microsoft has Azure stack offering provides all the benefits to them. It enables the business to select their data storage and any related transition easy.  
 

11. Updates:

In Azure, the software updates are automated. Moreover, it is updated in real-time so that the infrastructure and applications are adept to the day. Thus, it helps the business to grow faster with a lesser carbon footprint.
 

A great way to start and realize this benefit is to become expert in the field. You may have worked/working on these solutions and gained working experience already. Still, If you can validate your knowledge and skills, it scales up your career further.
 

Moving forward, let us understand the Training and Certifications available to validate and upgrade the skills and knowledge.
 

The Closing Thought:

To wrap up, Microsoft"s Azure has gained a strong foothold in the cloud computing niche witnessing an increase of 4% [from 16 to 20%] in its market share in the 4th quarter of 2017. And, the tech companies are positioning themselves this year to extend the cloud computing divisions and stay ahead in the emerging market of the cloud.
 

It’s high time for you too to stay ahead of the learning curve with Microsoft Azure.

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