Microsoft Azure

Limitless data and analytics capabilities.

• Microsoft Azure provides organisations with a platform for growth.
• It offers you an affordable service that is scalable to your needs, and by letting Microsoft run everything, you can focus on value-adding activities.
• Azure is a cutting edge platform that provides cloud infrastructure based on Windows and Linux offering
• Innovative platform-as-a-service (PaaS) capabilities, including web application hosting and identity management, and best-in-breed intelligence-as-a-service capabilities, including computer vision and machine learning capabilities, are all underpinned by market-leading software development tooling and support. Inherent in the Azure services is a pathway to the cloud, either through the migration of existing services or via hybrid cloud capabilities.

Services of Azure

• Storage and virtualization: Outsource your data centre to the cloud.  Not only is this a flexible and affordable way to get the storage you need, but it also saves you resources by managing your servers. Launch virtual machines in minutes, running Windows or Linux to your specifications.
• Hybrid: A hybrid cloud approach offers the best path to the cloud and a way to optimise your existing assets. Hybrid integration solutions let you seamlessly integrate applications, data, and processes, allowing you to operate with exceptional speed and agility.
• App and web hosting: Quickly build, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade web, mobile, and API apps running on any platform with Azure. Meet rigorous performance, scalability, security, and compliance requirements while using a fully managed platform to perform infrastructure maintenance.
• AI and cognitive services Use a comprehensive set of flexible artificial intelligence (AI) services for any scenario and enterprise-grade AI infrastructure that runs AI workloads anywhere at scale. Modern AI tools designed for developers and data scientists help you create AI solutions easily and with maximum productivity.
• Security on Azure: Microsoft spends over $1 billion annually on security. They are the world's leading cloud provider when it comes to security and privacy, with more certifications than any other cloud provider.  Azure meets a broad set of UK and industry-specific compliance standards, such as ISO 27001, HIPAA, SOC 1 and SOC 2, and UK G-Cloud. Rigorous third-party audits by the British Standards Institute verify Azure’s adherence to the strict security controls these standards mandate.