A quick guide to what's included in Microsoft Azure and the financial benefits of an IaaS cloud platform.

1. MICROSOFT AZURE
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WHAT MAKES UP AZURE?
Azure is a flexible, open and secure public cloud platform built for
businesses to create, deploy and run applications and infrastructure.
Accelerate your development to deliver applications faster
while easily creating compute, network and storage services.
Extend your datacentre to the cloud for additional capacity or
reduce your on-premises infrastructure overhead using an
enterprise-ready computing platform – and only pay for
what you need, when you need it.
Azure is a growing platform of services that can be used
separately or combined to create the right solution for your
business. Running both Windows and Linux operating systems and
allowing developers to use their popular language of choice means even
legacy applications can find a new home.
These figures are for a composite mid-size organisation with
100 applications supported by Azure, risk-adjusted over 5 years*
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NOTES: Values from sources have been converted from United States dollars to Great British
Pounds as at the time of print.
*Research conducted by Forrester Research on behalf of Microsoft
SOURCES 1. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/what-is-cloud-computing/
2. Owens, S. (2016) The Total Economic Impact of Microsoft Azure Platform-As-A-Service. Forrester Research Inc.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS
WHAT CAN I DO WITH AZURE
WHERE DO THE COST SAVINGS COME FROM ?
Compute services
Run your virtual machines,
servers and storage on
demand with full control, as
the foundation for your
business applications.
Platform services
Highly-engineered and
scalable services you can use
to build and run your
applications on demand
without having to manage
a full virtual machine.
Application services
A platform for developers to
create intelligent web and
mobile apps that connects to
data in the cloud and
on-premises.
Get more done
Take your solutions from
inception to production with
self-service and on-demand
access to resources and gain
competitive advantage.
Pay as you go
Pay for just the resources
and services you use and
when you need them,
removing the need for an
upfront capital expense to
purchase hardware.
Be more agile
Focus on your strategic
projects and iterate quickly by
removing long hardware
procurement cycles and
typical datacentre “rack and
stack” tasks.
Scale as you need
Deliver your applications
and services with the right
amount of cloud resources,
right when they’re
needed – where
they’re needed.
Go global in minutes
Take your applications and
services to global
locations and be close to your
users and customers using
the Azure worldwide network
of secure datacentres.
Protect your data
Your data, protected your way
with an enterprise-grade
SLA and backed by
industry-leading compliance
and privacy certifications to
give your business continuity
peace of mind.
Run your infrastructure for development,
test or production workloads
Backup, replicate and recover your
enterprise data
Create new web applications and services
that connects business data
Host your websites, blogs and content
management systems
Stream, encode and transcode video and
audio to multiple devices in near real-time
Analyse your data for patterns and insights
that drive decisions
25 hour reduction
per app in Dev/Test
466% ROI
$3.7m NPV
80% reduction
in IT Admin
80%
50% reduction
in Time to Market
50%