Digital transformation is a driving force in business. No matter the industry, organisations continue to accelerate digital initiatives to advance their business and gain a competitive edge. That focus is more important than ever today as the world begins to move into the era of AI.
The cloud has been vital in helping organizations adapt to changes in the business landscape and evolving customer demands. While early digitisation strategies focused on understanding where and how the cloud could benefit the business, those views have shifted and become more encompassing.
Organisations today see the cloud as a critical part of their overall technology portfolio, whether that means a hybrid environment or going “all in” on the cloud.
Making progress on your digital goals with Microsoft Azure starts with a migration and modernization journey. The two initiatives are closely related yet bring different advantages for you to consider.
Migrations involve moving applications, infrastructure, and data from your private, on-premises datacenter to the public or hybrid cloud. Migrations give you the foundation for an elastic, scalable, and secure infrastructure.
A cloud migration will help you start to realize several important benefits. For example, your organization may experience lower IT costs by rightsizing capacity, so you are only spending on the compute and storage resources that you use. When you need greater capacity, you can easily scale up usage, giving you a more flexible approach. You’ll also be able to strengthen your overall security posture through Azure’s comprehensive security controls, and benefit from Microsoft’s $1 billion annual investment in securing its cloud environments.
Modernization initiatives, on the other hand, involve updating existing or legacy applications to incorporate newer computing approaches, such as modern application frameworks or cloud-native technologies. Modernization allows you to innovate existing applications to provide better user experiences, greater business agility, and cost efficiencies. By adopting modern frameworks and technologies, you enable greater developer velocity, making it easier for your people to create, test, and launch new innovations.
Often, modernization projects build on migration to the cloud. For example, moving data to the cloud opens the door to gaining more value from the integration across your data and applications. Once your data is in the cloud, you can extend your cloud infrastructure foundation to apply more advanced analytics, or even integrate AI/ML approaches to glean richer and predictive insights from your data estate.
.
The inherent properties of cloud, including elasticity, high availability, security, scalability, and more, open a multitude of benefits for organisations. These benefits offer you ways to create significant business advantages while accelerating digital transformation initiatives.
Customers that adopt Microsoft Azure can improve:
53% more efficient IT infrastructure teams
37% lower three-year cost of operations
391% three-year return on investment
Up to 85% savings with Azure Hybrid Benefit
