Benefits to Microsoft Azure
- Strong integration with Microsoft 365 and Citrix technology
- Consumption-based model cuts out up front capital expenditure
- Highly scalable platform gives limitless possibilities
- Sophisticated security capabilities and accreditations
- The most-trusted brand name in personal computing, Microsoft
What is Microsoft Azure?
Commonly referred to as one of the big three public cloud providers, Microsoft Azure is a set of ever-growing cloud-based services designed to help organisations fulfil a range of IT requirements.
Microsoft Azure, along with other cloud providers, takes the burden of physical hardware ownership away from organisations to provide a highly scalable (pay as you use) model that offers resources when they’re required, on tap.
Unlike private cloud models, Azure uses a pay-per-second model which Microsoft openly publicises online. While that sounds expensive; with the right management, services can be scheduled for use only when required to dramatically reduce costs.
The public cloud model
For many requirements, the public cloud is commonly regarded as the future.
The scale of services that the big three – Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services – have over private cloud services is vast. That means their security credentials are unrivalled by any private provision, purely because of the resources available to the big three.
For many, it’s the consumption-based usage model that only public clouds can provide that is the most compelling proposition, as detailed below.
Ownership
Model
On Premises
- Long-term commitment on all hardware
- Up front capital expenditure
- Scaling inefficiencies
Rental
Model
Private Cloud
- Long-term commitment on all hardware
- Month-by-month operating expenditure
- Partial scaling efficiencies
Consumption
Model
Public Cloud
- Month-by-month commitments
- Month-by-month operating expenditure
- Full scaling efficiencies
Atlas Cloud for Azure cloud consultancy
Public cloud first, Azure first; if you’ve decided Azure is the platform for your organisation, Atlas Cloud are the provider for you.
All of our engineers and solutions consultants are Microsoft Azure certified and we’re a long-established Microsoft partner.
We can help you with relating services like Microsoft 365, Azure Virtual Desktops, disaster recovery, application hosting, SD-WAN implementation, Security Centre & Services, subscription services and much more. We offer white-boarding strategy sessions with our Azure-certified engineers through to cloud consulting services with our various specialists.
And, because we’re also a managed service provider, we’re also able to manage anything that’s not within your team’s current expertise.
INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE
For any bespoke Microsoft Azure-related hosting service, our Managed Infrastructure as a Service solution can help.
We can provision and manage your infrastructure in UK-only environments for high compliance requirements.
Working with Atlas Cloud
There’s a number of ways you and your team can tap into our Citrix expertise. Explore them below.
Strategy
Sessions
Whiteboarding sessions with our Citrix expert CTO help map the way.
Consultancy
Days
Project-based consultancy with our specialist engineers.
POC
Projects
Build concept VDI projects with our help to prove their worth.
Licencing
All kinds of VDI licencing is available directly from us, if necessary.
Managed
Services
Where there’s expertise gaps in-house, let us take care of it.
Our Cloud Consultancy Services
No cloud consultancy service is the same. See our specialisms below.
