Five reasons to choose Microsoft Azure for your business

Do you still think the cloud is expensive, or that your business is better off without it? These are five reasons to take another look.

No hardware to buy or maintain

With Microsoft Azure you no longer build and run your own data centre. Servers, storage, network equipment and the replacement of faulty hardware become Microsoft’s concern instead of yours. Your budget goes to the services your business uses, not to the equipment behind them.

Pay only for what you use

Azure charges for what you consume. A service that nobody needs outside office hours can be switched off in the evening and started again in the morning, and you stop paying for it in between. For workloads that run around the clock, reservations and savings plans lower the price further in exchange for a one-year or three-year commitment.

A smaller environmental footprint

Contrary to a common belief, moving to the cloud in most cases saves energy and reduces carbon emissions compared with running the same workloads on your own premises or in a private data centre. Large data centres run their power and cooling far more efficiently than a server room can. Microsoft has committed to becoming carbon negative by 2030.

High availability within reach

Azure offers availability options that would be very expensive to match in a private data centre: availability zones, which are physically separate data centres within one region, and replication to a second region. Designed that way, your services keep running when a whole data centre fails, and with a second region even when an entire country is affected.

If your organisation offers services that must always be available, Azure gives you the building blocks.

Compliance built in

Azure has more than 100 compliance offerings, more than any other cloud provider according to Microsoft. Its data centres are built with strict physical security and are audited regularly. You also choose the region where your data is stored, which helps you meet data residency requirements.

If compliance matters to your organisation, Azure gives you a strong foundation to meet your obligations.

More than cost

These are five of the many reasons to choose Azure. It is not only about lower costs and higher efficiency, but also about securing your business and preparing it for the future. We help you get there: from the first assessment and a carefully planned migration to the management of your environment afterwards.

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