Infographic Azure: Your Data Center in the Cloud
By Insight Editor / 27 Apr 2017 , Updated on 1 Nov 2019 / Topics: Cloud Microsoft Azure
Microsoft® Azure® is a collection of integrated cloud services that developers and IT professionals use to build, deploy and manage applications. It provides a complete solution for backup, Disaster Recovery (DR), compute and storage while eliminating hardware depreciation and other costs and limitations of on-premises infrastructure.
IDC predicts “greater cloud spending” will exceed $500B by 2023.
Optimizing cloud cost is the top initiative for 53% of IT pros.
Game Changer: Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program reduces the complexity of buying and using Azure.
54
regions online & growing
140+ data centers
Azure Hybird Benefits — up to 80% savings on Azure compute
CSP Azure
- No upfront commit
- Monthly consumption
- 24/7 U.S.-based support
- Monthly billing from insight
vs.
vs.
Enterprise Agreement (EA)
- 3-yr. term, $12K annual min.
- Commit adjusted annually
- 4 support plans
- Additional cost for support
- Annual billing from Microsoft
Replication times
Old way: 3 hours
Azure site recovery: < 2 minutes
Why Insight for Azure on CSP?
Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (MSP) partner
Pre-sales support
One of Microsoft’s largest Azure partners
24/7 post-sales support at no additional cost
Dedicated team of Azure specialists
Azure management portal demos
Sources:
Microsoft. (2019). Azure Regions
IDC. (2019, July 3). Worldwide Public Cloud Services Spending Will More Than Double by 2023.
Weins, K. (2017, Feb. 15). Cloud Computing Trends: 2017 State of the Cloud Survey. Rightscale.com.
