Here are some Advantages of Microsoft Azure Cloud Services
Azure Cloud Services and Data Security
Microsoft leverages decades of being a primary enterprise operating system and productivity solution provider to secure all information hosted in their Azure cloud products and services.
An enormous amount of resources and effort go into securing an organization’s on-site data centers, where the slightest erroneous configuration can expose the company to advanced threats and exploits.
With Microsoft Azure, all elements related to information security come included with the service, and customers gain access to the latest in threat prevention and detection technologies.
Microsoft Azure Cloud Security Center
As part of the Microsoft Azure Cloud Security Center, a range of security solutions and architecture implementations ensure all business data remains protected.
These include Advanced Threat Protection and Threat Intelligence reports using Windows Defender analytics, and Information Protection that classifies and protects specific information from unauthorized disclosure by applying labels to documents and emails.
Similarly, with network segmentation and encryption, every transmitted byte of data remains secure from any outside threat. Microsoft Azure Cloud Services uses threat monitoring agents that generate real-time security alerts and threat intelligence reports. These threat intelligence reports provide insights into attackers, their objectives, and the tactics employed.
Improved Scalability and Business Sustainability
One of the best advantages of Microsoft Azure Cloud Services comes from the scalability that the platform provides businesses.
Traditionally, as companies expanded and grew, provisioning new infrastructure for them would be both a lengthy and a costly process for the organization.
With a strategically deployed set of cloud-centers that span the globe, the Microsoft Azure Stack guarantees availability for services 24/7/365.
In the last year, Azure averaged an uptime 99.995% across its cloud infrastructure—meaning a total downtime of 26 minutes per year, worldwide. Microsoft plans to improve this number by adding more servers to its regions by 2021.
Currently, Azure Cloud Services utilize physical infrastructure distributed over every continent. This improves access times while also allowing for replication in cases where companies want to expand their business operations to outside the US.
For data management systems, Microsoft Azure Cloud Services use elastic pools to ensure the same database performance levels that companies expect from their locally hosted systems. With elastic SQL database pools, organizations gain the best price-per-performance benefits while staying within their prescribed budgets.
Simple and Effective Disaster Recovery
Data loss presents a serious risk to any organization. The impact of both lost revenue during the downtime, as well as the effort required to reconstitute the information can cost a company hundreds of thousands, if not millions, if a suitable, business continuity procedure isn’t already in place.
A disaster recovery plan requires multiple built-in redundancies while achieving an acceptable time-to-recovery objective.
With Microsoft Azure VDI, companies can enforce specific recovery criteria for different BUs (Business Units) and types of data. Businesses can test their plans for efficacy as frequently as required, and find the perfect balance between the cost and control of their data recovery processes.
Running backups and advanced replication of applications in a cloud environment will reduce the time required to recover from any type of outage, while also limiting the risk of becoming a victim of a ransomware attack.
