Microsoft Azure
Traditionally, businesses and other organisations would host their own infrastructure. A business would have its own web server (or email server, or legacy application) on its own hardware. If more power was needed, the business would have to purchase more server hardware. The business would also have to pay someone to administer that hardware and pay for a solid Internet connection to serve its customers. Alternatively, there are hosting companies that host your services on some of their own hardware in their data centres, for a fee.
Cloud computing works a bit differently. Rather than run your own hardware or pay for use of some specific hardware in someone else’s data centre, you just pay for access to a massive pool of computing resources provided by Microsoft. This allows you to host web servers, email servers, databases, file storage servers, virtual machines, user directories, or anything else you might want. When you need more computing resources, you don’t have to purchase physical hardware. The ‘cloud’ shares the hardware and automatically assigns the work as necessary. You pay for as many computing resources as you need, and not a specific number of hardware servers on a rack somewhere.
Services you deploy in this way can either be public servers available to everyone, or part of a ‘private cloud’ that’s just used in an organisation.
What is Azure?
Microsoft Azure is a Cloud Computing platform comprised of infrastructure and application services. Its integrated data services, advanced analytics, and developer tools and services are hosted within Microsoft’s public cloud data centres located internationally around the world. Microsoft Azure provides cloud technology as the building blocks to help businesses save costs, use cloud innovation and power business decisions with insights and proactive system management.
Trust your cloud
Get security from the ground up, backed by a team of experts, and proactive compliance trusted by enterprises, governments, and start-ups.
Operate hybrid seamlessly
On-premises, across multiple clouds, and at the edge – we will meet you where you are. Integrate and manage your environments with services designed for hybrid cloud.
Build on your terms
With a commitment to open source, and support for all languages and frameworks, build how you want, and deploy where you want to.
Be future-ready
Continuous innovation from Microsoft supports your development today, and your product visions for tomorrow.
Safeguard your data with the trusted cloud
Take advantage of multi-layered security across physical data centres, infrastructure, and operations with Azure. Help protect your business assets and data with industry-leading physical security systems and a comprehensive portfolio of compliance offerings and privacy standards.
Run mission-critical systems with confidence
Azure provides enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure on which customers and partners can rely. This includes physical elements like redundant power, networking, and cooling, as well as software elements like safe deployment processes, impact less maintenance, and failure prediction enabled by machine learning.
No matter what your service level objectives are, Azure empowers you to achieve your organisation's reliability goals. Take advantage of built-in features that help you design and operate mission-critical systems with confidence – across high availability, disaster recovery, and backup scenarios.
Embrace the infrastructure of tomorrow
Learn how Microsoft is improving the performance, efficiency, power consumption, and costs of Azure data centres for your cloud workloads – with infrastructure innovations such as underwater data centres, liquid immersion cooling projects, and hydrogen fuel cell technologies.
Azure global infrastructure
60+ regions, more than any other cloud provider, comprised of 200+ physical data centres, arranged into regions, and linked by one of the largest interconnected networks on the planet.
With the connectivity of the global Azure network, each of the Azure data centres provides high availability, low latency, scalability, and the latest advancements in cloud infrastructure – all running on the Azure platform.
Together, these components keep data entirely within the trusted Microsoft network and IP traffic never enters the public Internet.
Move your IT Infrastructure to the cloud with Azure
We’ll support you all the way and provide a highly experienced Microsoft Azure team in Malta and the surrounding EU areas. As a Microsoft Azure partner, we help businesses of all sizes migrate their business systems to the cloud with consulting and advice, architecture, deploying IT infrastructures in the cloud, migrating your systems, and supplying technical staff to work with you and make it all happen.
Our specialist team of consultants look forward to discussing your requirements in more detail, get in touch now!
