What is Azure?
Microsoft Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services to help your organisation meet your business challenges. It’s the freedom to build, manage and deploy applications on a massive, global network using your favourite tools and frameworks.
Whether you want to move existing servers or applications from on-premise or expensive data centres, Azure is the answer.
No more local disk failures and expensive IT call outs, Azure takes care of all that. Need more space? Just choose how much more and click apply.
Servers can be kept automatically up to date removing the security problems with out of date operating system patches.
Full administration and logging is available so you will not lose any control and of course you will have the highly experienced Azure team at SMS backing you up.
How does Azure work?
Azure from SMS – key benefits
SMS was born in the cloud and we specialise in cloud services. Let our experts migrate you to Azure safely and securely
SMS Azure Planner – utilise our expert team to determine which Azure resources you need
Expert provisioning – our Azure team will provision exactly the right systems and networking
Advanced monitoring – once setup, SMS can monitor your Azure platform and proactively fix problems
Performance tuning – by constantly monitoring the performance of applications, our team can suggest improvements
Comprehensive reporting & analysis – not using some machines 24/7? utilising less space than provisioned? Make instant changes
1 bill, 1 place for support – SMS can do it all eliminating the back and forth between different providers
No huge upfront capital expenditure, pay as you go fits in with your cash flow
Fully supported by the expert SMS Azure team – no expensive in-house team needed
Our Azure experts can fully scope and architect a full solution including compute, network & storage
Proof of concept service – we can demonstrate how your Azure solution will work
How can my business use Microsoft Azure?
With over 100 services Microsoft Azure has no limits. Some popular applications:-
Virtual desktops in the cloud – Access your desktop on any device from anywhere with an internet connection
Fast and reliable file storage – move from your old office NAS to state of the art file storage in Azure
Move your apps to the cloud – move your legacy apps to the cloud and access them from windows/mac/phone/tablet
Virtual servers — Power up Windows Server, SQL Server, Oracle, IBM, and SAP platforms instantly
Hyper scaleable/resiliant Websites – scale automatically up & down depending on visits
Multi-region secure networking – provision apps and servers close to the end users with backup/failover
Find out more about putting the power of Microsoft Azure to work for your business.
State of the art management & support from SMS
Microsoft Azure from SMS offers an incredible level of performance, reliability and scalability. Azure comes with an array of web based administration panels to use in provisioning, changing and logging the environment. We know that these panels, though powerful, can be complex to understand and so SMS offers several levels of experienced management & support options. From helping to set the service up all the way through to advanced architecture design, the specialist, experienced Azure team at SMS will support your journey.