AZURE

INFRASTRUCTURE

AZURE

INFRASTRUCTURE

WHY / WHEN SHOULD YOU MIGRATE?

BENEFITS OF MOVING TO AZURE

Agility, Efficiency, and Resiliency

Migration and modernization
to enhance existing systems
Innovation
to generate value
Skills, tools, and processes
to enable employees
Unified Operations and Control

Management | Monitoring and diagnostics | Security | Automation and configuration | Azure Arc

SCALE UP YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE
WITH VIRTUAL MACHINE SCALE SETS

FOR WINDOWS SERVER AND LINUX

Define a template to create and manage up to 1,000 load balanced VMs per availability zone in minutes.

Use Azure Resource Manager templates to deploy Linux platform images, as well as custom images and extensions.

Scale your applications automatically based on demand while increasing resiliency.

ENSURE REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
WITH AZURE CONFIDENTIAL COMPUTING

Existing encryption
Existing encryption

Data at rest

Encrypt inactive data
when stored in blob
storage, database, etc.

Data in use

Data in transit

Encrypt data that is
flowing between untrusted
public or private networks

Confidential computing

Data in use

Protect data that is in
use, while in RAM, and
during computation

Protect against

Insider threats

Privileged users
abusing access rights

Hackers

Exploiting bugs in
the Hypervisor/OS

Third parties

Accessing data without
customer consent

AZURE MEETS YOU WHERE YOU ARE

RUN ONCE, DEPLOY ANYWHERE

SQL Server on Azure
Virtual Machines

Best for lift and shift and/or
workloads requiring OS-level
access

Azure SQL
Managed Instance

Best for modernizing
existing apps

Azure SQL
Database

Best for supporting
modern cloud apps

Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Platform-as-a-Service

Fully-managed
and always up to
date

Use your existing
SQL experience
in the cloud

Save with the lowest
total cost of
ownership

Protect your data with
built-in, real-time
intelligent security

The only cloud with evergreen SQL

Software is continually updated and never requires patches

AZURE SQL PROVIDES
MORE PRICE-PERFORMANCE VALUE

Azure SQL Database

TPC-E Equivalent Benchmark
October 2019

SQL Server on Azure VM

TPC-E Equivalent Benchmark
February 2020

SECURE THROUGH
BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND DISASTER RECOVERY

Security
& Compliance

Secure Backups /
Ransomware-aware
/ DR Drills and
compliant BCP can
protect from
malicious attacks
and reduce cyber-
insurance premiums

Total
Cost Of Ownership

IT Budgets continue
to be consolidated
and focused on
high-value efforts.
CAPEX-> OPEX
conversion

Workload Coverage &
Granularity

Customers need
help identifying,
protecting, and
recovering entire
datasets or sensitive
items per their
needs

Ease Of Automation &
Management

Critical for massive
enterprise-level
scalability,
monitoring and
governance of BCDR

MANAGE GOVERNANCE PORTFOLIO

Management Group

Define
organizational
hierarchy

Policy

Real-time
enforcement,
compliance
assessment and
remediation

Blueprints

Deploy and update
cloud environments in a
repeatable manner
using composable
artifacts

Resource Graph

Query, explore &
analyze cloud
resources at scale

Cost Management

Monitor cloud spend
and optimize
resources

Hierarchy
Control
Environment
Visibility
Consumption

HOW DO WE WORK?

As Microsoft Designated Solutions Partner
in Azure Infrastructure, we can help you make right choices.

How Do I Get Started?

Elevate your business to new heights!

Reach out to us via email or phone to discover if you qualify for a
Free Assessment*.

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