Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure: the newest cloud computing platform and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) created by Microsoft.

Benefits of using Microsoft Azure:

• The infrastructure implement various types of technologies and processes to safeguard the environment
• Eliminates the need for a physical environment, power, heating, and cooling
• Eliminates the need for future upgrades and migrations
• “On premises best practices” applies to Azure CSP
• Allows for strong compute-on-demand and scaling capabilities
  • Scale-up- increasing storage capabilities
  • Scale-out- cluster computers together in an availability set
  • Auto-scale/elastic compute
• Ability to add and reduce allocated resources immediately and easily
• Inbound data is free
• Site point VPN is free