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Read moreMicrosoft Azure is a continually expanding set of more than 100 cloud services and tools designed specifically to help you address your organisation’s current and future challenges.
With Azure you will be able to do everything from running your existing applications on virtual machines, to exploring new software paradigms, such as intelligent bots, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT) and mixed reality, allowing you to build great solutions for the future:
Be ready for the future
Continuous innovation from Microsoft supports your development today and your product visions for tomorrow.
Build on your terms
You have choices. With a commitment to open source, and support for all languages and frameworks, you can build how you want and deploy where you want to.
Operate hybrid seamlessly
On-premise, in the cloud and at the edge – Microsoft will meet you where you are. Integrate and manage your environments with tools and services designed for a hybrid cloud solution.
Trust your cloud
Get security from the ground up, backed by a team of experts and proactive compliance trusted by enterprises, governments and startups.
Cloud computing platforms, such as Microsoft Azure, tend to be less expensive, more secure, reliable and flexible than using on-premise servers.
With the cloud, equipment downtime due to maintenance, theft or damage is almost non-existent. You can scale your compute and storage resources – up or down – almost instantly when your needs change on Azure. Also, you typically only pay for the services you use, which provides a level of convenience and cost-control that’s almost impossible to achieve with on-site infrastructure.
Lower Cost
Cloud computing eliminates the expense of setting up and running on-site data centres, which often have added costs such as employing staff and buying and maintaining land, buildings and computer hardware. The cloud allows businesses to access the computer resources they need in real time to match their business needs on demand.
Higher Security
Security is a key focus of cloud providers, who invest huge sums of money into securing their infrastructure. Cloud service providers typically also offer a broad set of policies, compliance, technologies and controls that strengthen your security posture by protecting your data, apps and infrastructure from threats.
Increased Productivity
More efficiently develop and manage your applications with nearly unlimited cloud computing resources. Cloud providers continuously update their data centre networks with the latest-generation hardware, providing you with fast, efficient computing resources that never go obsolete and would be more costly to implement in a single data centre.
Global Scale
Cloud computing runs on data centres around the world, providing overall resiliency and reliability by allowing your data to be backed up in more than one geographic location. This also allows your IT resources to be delivered from specific geographic locations when required.
Reduce your carbon footprint
The Microsoft Cloud is between 72% and 98% more carbon efficient for running on-premise data operations. Understand and reduce your organisation’s environmental impact with Microsoft’s new Sustainability Calculator.
As a Microsoft Azure Expert MSP with experience working with organisations across a variety of industries and sectors, you can rest assured that you are in safe hands with the Team at Phoenix.
Azure Expert MSP is the highest level of Microsoft accreditation and independently validates Phoenix’s expertise and quality of cloud transformation services, covering planning, migration, optimisation, operation and management of cloud services on the Azure platform.
We also hold three Microsoft Advanced Specializations (Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop Advanced Specialization, Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server Migration to Microsoft Azure Advanced Specialization and Microsoft Adoption and Change Management Advanced Specialization) which alongside our Azure Expert MSP status, puts Phoenix in an elite group of partners both in the UK and globally..
Learn more about our Azure Expert MSP accreditationOur Azure Essentials Cost Management and Optimisation service supports you to significantly reduce your organisation’s Azure resource costs and improve utilisation.
As the demand for the cloud within digital transformation plans have rapidly grown, you could be left feeling your investment over the years in on-premise technology is holding you back, until now. With Microsoft Azure VMware Solution (AVS) can help to deliver strategic transformation that will enable a modern, connected public sector and maximise efficiencies. AVS offers an ideal opportunity for organisations that are looking to reduce their footprint in the data centre, decommissioning a second site and/or are looking at modernising their business continuity and disaster recovery strategies.
When using AVS, organisations can move to Azure using VMware’s HCX technology and continue to manage their environment using the same VMware tools they already know without the need to reskill or hire more expertise. You can ensure operational continuity when redeploying your vSphere-based applications to Azure and avoid the complexity of application refactoring while also gaining the added advantage of enabling integration of your environment with Azure native services such as Azure Backup, Azure Security and Sentinel to name a few.
Discover how Microsoft Azure VMware Solution (AVS) can help youWe understand that no two organisations or customers journeys are the same. This is why we created Six Steps to Microsoft Azure. Within our Six Steps are a number of assessments, workshops and services all designed to help you get started, optimise and innovate with Microsoft Azure – depending on the stage of the journey you find yourself on.
Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is an Azure-based, internet hosted desktop service. Your desktop environment – including wallpaper, icons, toolbars, apps, widgets and customisations – are remotely stored online meaning you can access your desktop from any device, anywhere.
AVDis the only service that delivers simplified management, multi-session Windows 10 and is optimised for Office 365 ProPlus. With Azure Virtual Desktop you can deploy and scale Windows desktops and apps for your employees on Azure in minutes, with built-in security and compliance features.
Discover the full benefits that AVD could bring youSupport from Microsoft for Windows Server 2008 R2 ended on 14 January 2020, while SQL Server 2008 R2 support ended on 9 July 2019. If you are still running these, you will now be finding maintenance costs are quickly spiralling with the need to continually manage your aging hardware. Migrate and trust Azure to look after all of your Windows Server and SQL Server workloads and gain access to continuous innovation and support for your organisation.
Take a look at why Azure is the best cloud for your Windows Server and SQL Server workloads
The OCRE framework, available to GÉANT members, enables over 10,000 universities and research institutions, served by 40 National Research and Education Network (NREN) organisations across Europe, to benefit from:
Phoenix Software is currently the sole provider of Microsoft Azure cloud services to research institutions, universities and NREN members in the UK through the OCRE framework.
Discover more about OCRE and how you can benefit