What are the Benefits of a Cloud Strategy?
With the right technology in place, you can provide your
organization with instant access to data and collaboration tools from
almost anywhere. Microsoft cloud services make greater
productivity possible with enterprise applications you already know
and assets you have today.
With decades of experience serving businesses large and small,
Microsoft Cloud Services understands the value of technology that is
scalable and familiar from day one for you and your employees.
Not only does Microsoft offer the most complete set of cloud-based
business solutions, but there is also around-the-clock support to
ensure your businesses applications run smoothly.
Benefits include:
Latest Business Productivity Capabilties
- Discover the latest in business-class email, Web conferencing,
instant messaging, document collaboration and workflow
- Get the benefit of the latest messaging and collaboration
features, which are designed to work together seamlessly
- Build your own solution with individual services or purchase
as an integrated suite
Ease of Use
- Your end users have a unified experience to access all of the
hosted services you're using
- Administrators only have one place to go to manage
subscriptions and to configure all Online Services
- End users have the ability to access the service securely,
anywhere without the need for a VPN connection and through a wide
selection of mobile devices
Privacy & Rapid Disaster Recovery
- Secure Internet protocols including HTTPS and HTTP over SSL to
access your services
- Redundant network architecture capable of disaster recovery
- In the event of datacentre connectivity issues, services
switch over to a backup datacentre
Greater Flexibility
- Online offerings integrate with on-premises servers and
applications so that organisations can run some applications
internally and others as hosted services
- Leverages tools such as Active Directory synchronisation so
you can make online, on-premises or hybrid deployment choices by
service, user roles and geography to meet organisational needs
best.
- Did you know that only 15% of your server capacity, on
average, is being utilised? When a system is in the cloud,
you can purchase the capacity you need, when you need it, and then
reduce capacity when you don't.
Improved Agility
- Quickly enhance or expand your IT capacity by adding new
services without having to invest in the development of new skills
or deploying new hardware and software
- Did you know that 80% of enterprise software expenditure is on
installation and maintenance? When a system is in the
Microsoft cloud, all software installation, updates and
maintenance is dealt with by Microsoft - leaving you with an
immediate saving!
- Free your valuable IT resources from routine management tasks
to focus on core business initiatives that can deliver a truly
competitive advantage
Business-class Security and Reliability
- Microsoft Online Services run on a global network of
world-class datacentres
- Microsoft datacentres and services are protected by multiple layers
of security and operational best practices
- Microsoft Online Services guarantee a service level agreement
of 99.9% uptime
- Managed by rigorously screened and highly trained staff
Migrating to the Cloud
If you already have on-premise data and are considering migrating
to the cloud, F1 can help you formulate a plan around your specific
requirements and even implement the migration for you, if required.
Microsoft has generated a methodology graph, below, that shows the
stages of planning and implementing a migration to the cloud.
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