Microsoft Azure

Accelerate innovation and transform your business with Microsoft Azure services

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Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that enables organisations of any size to create, run, and manage applications and services with unmatched agility, scalability, and security. With Microsoft Azure cloud services, organisations can access a variety of services, such as compute, storage, networking, databases, AI, IoT, and more, to speed up innovation, drive digital transformation, and achieve their business objectives. Microsoft Azure provides a range of solutions that cater to the different needs of modern businesses.

From startups to Fortune 500 companies, Azure offers the tools and resources needed to update IT infrastructure, improve operations, and unlock new possibilities for growth and innovation. Whether you’re looking to move existing workloads to the cloud, build new cloud-based applications, or leverage the power of AI and machine learning, Azure has you covered.

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Create innovative solutions:

use a reliable platform to enhance your organisation with leading-edge AI and cloud services

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Integrate smoothly:

manage all your infrastructure, data, analytics, and AI solutions with ease across a connected platform

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Trust with confidence:

depend on trusted technology from a partner who’s committed to security and responsibility

With Microsoft Azure cloud services, organisations can take advantage of industry-leading security features, such as built-in threat protection, identity management, and compliance certifications, to protect data and applications in the cloud. Azure’s flexible pricing options, including pay-as-you-go and reserved instances, allow organisations to optimise costs and maximise ROI. In addition, Azure’s global network of data centres ensures high availability, reliability, and performance for applications and services worldwide.

Phoenix has made a phenomenal transition over the past few years from a licensing specialist to an Azure Expert Managed Service Partner, delivering remarkable outcomes. Their focus on culture and putting inclusivity at the heart of what they do has really shone through in all the interactions with the Phoenix team. I’m really looking forward to seeing the partnership grow further in the months and years ahead.”

Orla McGrath, Global Partner Solutions Lead – Microsoft

Our Microsoft accreditations

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Microsoft Azure Expert MSP

We are proud to have achieved Azure Expert MSP status, the highest Azure certification possible, which reflects the commitment of our specialists and customers who are the core of our business. To become an Azure Expert MSP, we must go through an external pre-audit assessment and on-site audit, which can take more than 300 hours of effort and require expertise from different areas of our business. Our Azure Expert MSP status is based on our outstanding skills and capabilities that ensure full visibility and reliability. With these dedicated resources in-house, our specialists are always up-to-date with Azure developments, ensuring the best support and resolution for our customers.

As a highly qualified and experienced Microsoft partner, we can offer our customers the best service in the industry and help them find funding options through programmes like Azure Migrate and Modernize and Azure Innovate – contact us today to find out if you are eligible.

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Phoenix have repeatedly demonstrated exceptional levels of expertise and customer service, helping our mutual customers achieve more with Azure. Renewing their Azure Expert MSP status ensures organisations working with Phoenix are receiving independently verified best in class services and solutions and have undergone our rigorous audit requirements.”

Eleri Gibbon, Channel Lead – Microsoft UK

Microsoft Azure customer case studies

See the power of Microsoft Azure in action in our customer case studies:

“We had a virtual machine assessment, so Phoenix checked our entire estate. Once they had done that, we basically created the test environment in Azure, so nothing was done on a whim. Everything was done in a very methodical, very planned way to make sure that the migration was a success.”

Rob Abraham, Technical Architect, Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council

Microsoft Azure FAQs

Microsoft Azure is built to empower businesses to scale, exceed expectations, and unlock limitless innovation.

Phoenix are a Microsoft Azure partner with the Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Service Provider (MSP) status. 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.

In addition to this, we are a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Microsoft Cloud with Data & AI (Azure), Digital & App Innovation (Azure), and Infrastructure (Azure) designations. We also hold 11 Microsoft Specialisations including:

  • Infra and Database Migration to Microsoft Azure specialisation
  • Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop specialisation

You can sharpen your cloud skills to accelerate your career and business results with Microsoft Azure certifications. Discover technical training, certifications, and personalised learning programs that will boost the performance of your teams now.

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Microsoft Cloud Services is another term sometimes used to describe Microsoft Azure Cloud Services. With Microsoft Cloud Services, you can:

  • Manage your applications more easily and ensure availability
  • Adjust your environment automatically based on need and lower expenses
  • Update operating systems and applications automatically to improve security
  • Use integrated health monitoring and load balancing features
  • Concentrate on your application, not the cloud infrastructure behind it

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With the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals exam, you will need to prove that you can accomplish the following tasks: describe core data concepts; identify considerations for relational data on Azure; describe considerations for working with non-relational data on Azure; and describe an analytics workload on Azure.

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Microsoft Azure fundamentals is a three-part series that helps you learn basic cloud concepts, gives you a concise overview of many Azure services, and shows you with hands-on exercises how to deploy your first services for free.

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Microsoft Azure Active Directory is now Microsoft Entra ID. It is the same solutions, but with even more powerful capabilities to strengthen you defences across identity and access. Check out the latest on Microsoft Entra ID now.

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The need for Microsoft Azure support can vary from business to business and industry to industry based on usage, skills and costs. Phoenix offers a range of Azure managed services to support organisations looking to maximise their investments and optimise costs.

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Transform the way you work with Microsoft Azure

Contact us today to learn more about how Microsoft Azure can transform your business and drive success in the digital age.

You can also email us at [email protected] or call 01904 562200 – whatever works best for you.