Six reasons why Aberdeen businesses should invest in Microsoft Azure Support

Microsoft Azure is a leading cloud platform that businesses can use to maximise the full potential of cloud services. When used correctly, Microsoft Azure can revolutionise how a business operates. In our latest blog post, managing director Gordon Christie discusses the benefits of embracing Microsoft Azure, providing the six main reasons Aberdeen businesses should invest in the technology.

1. Scalability

One of the key benefits of Microsoft Azure is its scalability. Whether you're a small startup or a large enterprise, Azure allows you to scale your resources up or down based on your business needs.

At IT Hotdesk, we offer a flexible pay-as-you-go model, where you only pay for the resources you utilise. We work with our clients to establish what they need and often supply our staff to work as part of our customer’s team during busy periods or on specific projects.

We offer a similar model for our software and systems too. Our customers only pay for the required licences and can scale up or down depending on what their business needs at any given time.

This level of scalability allows businesses to quickly respond to changing market demands, handle unpredictable workloads, and deliver exceptional customer experiences.

2. Additional levels of security

Entra ID helps businesses to manage user identities and access Microsoft 365 resources.

The fully managed multi-tenant service allows organisations to manage users, groups, and applications, providing secure access to resources inside and outside your business.

This can include:

• Multi-factor authentication
• Single Sign On (SSO), where users can access multiple applications with one set of credentials
• Application management, where administrators can manage access to applications and resources
• Device management, administrators can manage resource access based on the user's device.

Integrating your cloud Entra ID with on-premises Entra ID environments allows you to provide a hybrid identity solution, allowing users to access both cloud and on-premises resources with the same credentials.

3. Data security

Azure provides customers with strong data security. Azure Key Vault helps customers easily maintain control of keys used by cloud applications and services to encrypt data. Azure Disk Encryption enables customers to encrypt VMs.

4. Disaster Recovery

Azure offers an end-to-end backup and disaster recovery solution that is simple, secure, scalable, and cost-effective – and can be integrated with on-premises data protection solutions. The Azure backup and disaster recovery solution is simple, cloud-native, highly available and resilient.

5. Analytic solutions

Azure analytics services enable you to use the full breadth of your data assets to help build transformative and secure analytical solutions at an enterprise scale. Fully-managed services like Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Data Factory, Databricks and Azure Synapse Analytics help you easily deploy solutions for BI and reporting, advanced analytics and real-time analytics. Transform your data into timely insights through stunning Power BI visualisations for everyone in your organisation.

6. Hybrid Capabilities

Azure has hybrid capabilities that make it unique. Azure facilitates easy mobility and a reliable, consistent platform between on-premise and public Cloud. Azure provides a broader range of hybrid connections to improve usability and performance, including virtual private networks (VPNs), caches, content delivery networks (CDNs) and ExpressRoute connections.

We are seeing a significant increase in businesses investing in Microsoft Azure. Book a free consultation and start your journey today on how we can help your Microsoft Azure Support.