Businesses these days want to empower their hybrid cloud strategies, and Microsoft Azure has become the top choice. According to a Microsoft blog, over 95% of Fortune 500 companies trust their business on Azure today.
Why Do Fortune 500 Companies Choose Azure?
Here are the top reasons for that.
1. No Need to Run an On-Site Data Centre
Well, this is one of the top reasons. Companies are moving to Azure to avoid the high cost of building and running an on-site data centre. They are preventing significant investments in the hardware and saving money as there is no need to hire resources to maintain it. Many companies have slashed data centre costs by 60% using Azure.
2. Access to the Fastest, Closest Servers
Azure hosting services have maintained data centres in over 140 nations offering a wide range of cloud services. Currently, there are 60+ Azure Regions worldwide available in these countries. Each Azure Region is made up of at least 2/3 of datacentres. They allow companies to deploy apps in any region they want. They ensure high security by having an option to replicate data across the data centres or areas. So, it does not matter who your users are; they will have super-fast access to the fastest, closest servers.
3. Affordable
A budget-friendly subscription model makes Azure Cloud suitable for big MNCs, Fortune 500 companies, and smaller stores. If you have spent too much money on maintaining your IT infrastructure, it is time to try Azure Cloud. It offers a Pay-As-You-Go subscription model and has specific tools (like Microsoft Azure Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)), helping you forecast the cost before using it.
4. Gives Much Needed Flexibility
The market is dynamic now. It wants an organisation to adapt rapidly to the changes cost-effectively to sustain business growth. The organisation must develop, test, and commence software applications quickly. With the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, a company can focus on developing, monitoring and analysing applications instead of maintaining the resources.
Moreover, with Azure elasticity, you may quickly expand or decrease cloud services like memory, storage, or processing.
5. Data Insurance
Azure’s disaster recovery secures your crucial data in IT outages or unfortunate natural disasters. With this, you can achieve high savings compared to on-premises solutions. Microsoft Azure has also introduced Enterprise-scale disaster recovery running in a high availability environment that lets you focus on a solution with top-notch services like Traffic Manager, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Active Directory, and Virtual Network.
And Azure is the first cloud service provider to introduce Disaster Recovery for the applications running over IaaS.
6. Amazing Security Controls
Security is the crucial criterion for any organisation to adopt cloud services. Azure offers built-in security controls and exclusive threat intelligence to protect essential data. The data stored in Azure is encrypted by default. Azure also allows companies to generate multiple data replicas and store them in any data centre to provide multi-layered security.
Moreover, Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) is a leading security process on which Azure has been designed. It is the first to adopt the new international standard for cloud privacy, ISO 27018. Microsoft has guaranteed the best security for all operations and data on the Azure Cloud.
Conclusion
Microsoft Azure is one of the best choices for now and the future. Create a free account now with Microsoft Azure and start with 12 months of free popular services such as Windows Virtual Machines and test and deploy enterprise apps.
Take guidance for the entire process so that the transition does not impact your business continuity and ROI. Visit our website and contact us to learn more about Azure transition.
