Is Migrating to Azure Beneficial

Enterprises across the world are realizing that there comes great success by fulfilling business solutions through the cloud migration strategy. Migrating business applications to the cloud have bought a more secure, scalable, and agile solution. Today, 90% of the Fortune 500 companies are using Microsoft’s cloud platform to run their business. Microsoft Azure consists of a wide range of frameworks, platforms, operating systems, programming languages, databases, and whatnot, providing cloud migration services to enterprises.

What is database Migration?

The simple process of migrating data from one or more databases to another database using some cloud migration strategy is coined as Database Migration. Azure Database Migration Service is Microsoft’s cloud migration service that helps to easily migrate your data, schema, and objects to the cloud. Any on-premise database running on any other cloud such as SQL Server, Oracle, AWS, can also be migrated to Azure through proper assessments.

Although there are different cloud providers for migrating applications, many enterprises choose Microsoft Azure as the backbone of their IT strategy. In this article, you are going to explore the 10 key benefits of using Azure for migration for almost every enterprise.

1.Delivering speedy solutions:

If your enterprise has a project that requires infrastructure and services such as software, network, databases, or server and you do not have adequate money to build your infrastructure on your own, you can seek solutions from Azure. With Azure, you do not need to rely on other teams and managers for bringing your product to the market. Microsoft Azure has a variety of services fulfilling every need of an organization. It offers infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS), and Software as a service (SaaS) that supports the building, deploying and operating of any enterprise solution. With Azure, you can achieve robust and fast performance which is far beyond the on-premise solutions and even other cloud providers.

2.Providing agility & scalability:

Enterprises grow unpredictably, rising need for resources to scale up. Such IT solutions are required that can scale up or scale down according to the requirements of the enterprise. With Azure, scalability, and agility comes as a by-product where with a single toggle or slider resources can be easily scaled offering flexibility to the clients.

3.Global Reach:

With the expansion of your business around the globe, comes a great need for such a cloud migration strategy that can reduce latency and allow clients to be more flexible. Local data centers reduce the speed and cause downtime while accessing a solution. Therefore, Migrating to Azure not only creates uptime but also improves speed due to Microsoft’s global data centers which are growing day by day.

4.Microsoft’s compatibility:

Microsoft as an organization has played a vital role in the evolution of the cloud and migrating applications to it. A wide range of enterprises are only attracted to Azure due to its compatibility with other Microsoft’s platforms such as .Net, Sharepoint, etc, and as it aligns with the technology workspace and cloud migration strategies.

5.Serverless capabilities:

Whenever there is a requirement to automatically scale on-demand horizontally, the serverless capabilities of Azure form the key. Developing your solutions with Azure functions allows you to solve various orchestration problems. Enterprises only need to pick one plan and then deploy the same code to different target areas. With Azure Functions, you can build your APIs, web applications, microservices, data processing pipelines, machine learning workflows, and many more.

6.Highly secure:

The biggest point of migrating your applications to Azure is the top-notch security that Microsoft offers as Azure is based on Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). Microsoft has given a lot of time and effort in security and compliance features to ensure the data on Azure is highly secure and robust.

7.Identity & Access Management (IAM):

Providing access to only authorized and registered users are not what is found in on-premise infrastructure for any product. With Azure, IAM capabilities enable registered users to access and edit the right data using Azure Active Directory. This has allowed enterprises to cut down the identity management costs supporting innovative business solutions.

8.24/7 Support:

Azure has all the capabilities to handle multiple types of workloads whether a small test project or a big enterprise product. Microsoft supports different kinds of languages and platforms across different regions of data centers. With Azure, there is 24/7 contact tech support, enterprise-grade SLAs on support, and so on.

9.Not only Storage:

Transitioning to Microsoft has proved not only scaled solutions but also cost-effective and secured solutions. Azure has listed more than 600 services that can solve any of your business requirements via one Azure platform. It consists of all cloud migration services including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS), and Software as a service (SaaS).

10.Preventing from Disaster:

Disaster recovery is the most important factor which an enterprise need and that is covered by Azure. Azure has provided high durability with 99. 99999999999999% (16 9’s) geo-redundancy and cost-effective backup and disaster recovery. With Azure storage replication data can never be lost during a calamity or downtime appears.

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