With Azure, Microsoft verticalizes its Cloud offering
The life of a company is never a long quiet river. An SME must constantly adapt – and sometimes quickly – to a sudden change in the environment or a strong market constraint. In this context, it is essential to have the capacity to deploy a sustainable project in a very short time. But how? Thanks to a flexible and functional architecture. The Microsoft Azure Cloud offers innovative and agile solutions in this area for companies.
Microsoft Azure’s cloud solutions bring agility to SMBs. They no longer need to invest in servers and amortize their cost to start a test project. With Azure, they only pay for what they consume, – whether it’s hardware resources like servers or software licenses. In the case where the company needs more hardware and software resources to carry out a test project, it can order them in three clicks from the Azure cloud. And just as easily adjust up or down these resources according to their needs.
Agility and autonomy
In concrete terms, the Azure cloud offers a wide range of services: virtual servers, network domain, database management, messaging services… According to its needs, the company can therefore choose the Azure offer to conduct its test projects. Each service represents a ready-to-use technological brick. It is up to the company to assemble the number of bricks it wants. But also to remove some along the way, to add some or to change completely the direction as the project progresses. This agility results in greater autonomy for development teams. Indeed, they can focus more on the specificity of their business and the needs of its customers without worrying about the implementation of an infrastructure that would have proved to be cumbersome.
In this context, the “on-demand” Azure cloud model is ideal because it allows to obtain immediately any volume of resources, modifiy it at any time as needed and delete. it as quickly as it was created. The company is thus able to adapt its infrastructure in a few minutes, instead of several days or hours with a “classic” solution. In addition, the cost charged corresponds to the time of use, without any initial investment. This is a real paradigm shift, as the company can enjoy services that it would not have been able to afford. In conclusion, the SME enjoys total freedom in the initiation and development of its projects without having to order, purchase, and set up a whole physical infrastructure that is costly and becoming obsolete over time.
Microsoft, which invests 1 billion dollars per year in the development of its Azure solutions, does not stop there. The company focuses on the construction of verticalities, that is to say a Cloud offer specific to the needs of sectors of the economy. After health and retail, Microsoft Azure has announced two new Cloud offerings. One for financial services. The other for industry. This development strategy will undoubtedly convert a large part of the economy to the Cloud.
