4 KEY ADVANTAGES OF MICROSOFT’S AZURE CLOUD
Girdhar Gopal Singh
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An average of 1,000 customers are subscribing Microsoft Azure every day and almost two thirds of Fortune 500 companies use MS Azure for their cloud computing.
The most predominant benefits of using cloud computing are: within a minute spinning up virtual Machine, providing Steady and scalable cloud storage, and high-level security, backup and recovery mechanism for organizations.
However, there are various cloud computing service are developed but not all have various same advantages.Here are four most common reasons, why fortune 500 companies are choosing Microsoft Azure.
Security
Microsoft offers some of the great security mechanism in cloud industry, begin with general cloud workload protection like Development Lifecycle (SDL), Operational Security Assurance (OSA) which inbuilt with SDL to provide framework level security mechanism. Azure Security Centre (ASC) enables azure as only public cloud which continuously monitors health of security.
Moreover, Azure offers in-built threat detection technique by various services such as Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Azure Log Analytics, and Azure Security Center etc.
Theses tons of security services and capabilities enables run time monitoring within your Azure deployments.
Also, there are measure security mechanism from storage, database, access management to network protection these security management allows from hazard defense so that you can be self-assured for security.
Microsoft Azure environment is safeguarded with various tools like threat Intelligence, Threat Analytics, Azure Information Protection, and Multi-Factor Authorization. These functionalities enable you scan threats in real time.
Decades of enterprise software development experience empower Microsoft to provide security-aware software, operational management, and threat-mitigation cloud environment.
Privacy
You own, can control your data: Microsoft understands customer data, services & privacy. As your data is most valuable asset, for Microsoft their clients entrust are most valuable asset.
MS Azure uses time-tested approach to provide privacy and control over the collection, use, and supply of your customer data.
Ms Azure transparent about the policies, operational practices, and technologies which make sure the privacy of your data Azure cloud services.
Microsoft Azure allow you to know how data is manage, where your data is located, how & who can access your data further more how to respond government agency to access your customer data.
Microsoft provide a complete transparent contract, contractual commitments, privacy standards and best practices. That means you have complete and concise information about your data storage & management.
High Availability and Scalability
Microsoft Azure guaranteeing 99.95 % up time that encounters high availability and redundancy. Microsoft’s delivers high availability because of vast global footprint along with data centres are located in each zone around the world.
Microsoft Azure covers more global regions as compare to any other cloud provider, azure is available globally in 54 regions worldwide in 140 countries
Ms azure uses 4 nodes to provide higher availability of Data Management Gateway (DMG) for delivering high availability & Scalability.
Now with a single logical gateway, you can associate multiple on premises machine that help you, by a single mouse click you can spine up or spine down virtual machine to meet the instable business needs.
Cost Effectiveness
Ms Azure offers flexible pricing options where you need to pay-as-you go payment plan which help any businesses to have full control over their IT budgets as you to purchase only what you need.
You can use azure as IAAS and control it like PAAS, Azure does not ask any upfront cost only you need to Pay for what you use as well you do not to pay for management.
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