Microsoft Azure

Your public cloud computing platform with an ever-expanding set of services to help you build solutions from simple to complex. Azure has simple web services for hosting your business presence in the cloud, and it also supports running fully virtualized computers managing your custom software solutions. Azure also provides a wealth of cloud-based services, like remote storage, database hosting, and centralized account management, and new capabilities including artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) focused services.

Exchange Online

Your hosted cloud-based messaging solution that delivers email, calendar, contacts, and tasks from PCs, the web, and mobile devices.

With Exchange Online, emails are hosted on Microsoft’s popular Exchange Server which enables multi-device synchronization, ensuring you always have access to your emails, calendar, and contacts – from anywhere.

Azure Services

Compute

Access cloud compute capacity and scale on demand—and only pay for the resources you use.

Quickly and easily create enterprise-ready web and mobile apps for any platform or device and deploy them on a scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure.

Provision unused compute capacity at deep discounts to run interruptible workloads for development, testing, quality assurance, advanced analytics, big data, machine learning and AI, batch jobs, rendering and transcoding of videos, graphics, and images.

Seamlessly move VMware-based workloads from your datacenter to Azure with Azure VMware Solution, a Microsoft service, verified by VMware, that runs on Azure infrastructure. Keep managing your existing environments with the same VMware tools you already know while you modernize your applications with Azure native services.

Select your preferred distribution with Azure Linux virtual machines (VMs), including Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, and CoreOS and migrate your Microsoft technologies, including Windows Server, SQL Server, .NET applications, Azure Active Directory (Microsoft Entra ID), and System Center, to Azure.

Migrate your SQL Server workloads to the cloud to get the performance and security of SQL Server combined with the flexibility and hybrid connectivity of Azure.

Build, on your terms, large-scale services for batch, big data, and container workloads using Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets, which let you create, manage, and scale a group of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines (VMs).

Get a dedicated physical server to host your Azure VMs for Windows and Linux. As you provision the host, you gain visibility into and control over the placement of your Azure VMs, and you determine the host’s maintenance policies.

Enable a secure remote desktop experience from virtually anywhere by providing the familiarity and compatibility of Windows 11 with the new scalable multi-session experience for your end users and save costs by using existing eligible Windows licenses.

Accelerate your app development with managed global availability for static content hosting and dynamic scale for integrated serverless APIs. Experience high productivity with a tailored local development experience, CI/CD workflows to build and deploy your app, and unified hosting and management in the cloud.

Databases

Support rapid growth and innovate faster with secure, enterprise-grade, and fully managed database services.

Build apps that scale with managed and intelligent SQL database in the cloud.

Modernize SQL Server applications with a managed, always-up-to-date SQL instance in the cloud.

Focus on application development, not database management with Azure Database for MySQL which is cost effective and easy to set up, operate, and scale.

Networking

Connect cloud and on-premises infrastructure and services to provide your customers and users the best possible experience.

Build secure, scalable, highly available web front ends in Azure.

Host your Domain Name System (DNS) domain in Azure.

Create private connections between Azure datacenters and infrastructure on premises or in a colocation environment.

Instantly scale your applications with Azure load balancing services for high availability and high performance.

Save bandwidth and improve responsiveness when encoding or distributing gaming software, firmware updates, and IoT endpoints. Reduce load times for websites, mobile apps, and streaming media to increase user satisfaction globally.

Create your own private network infrastructure in the cloud.

Storage

Get secure, massively scalable cloud storage for your data, apps, and workloads.

Protect your data with a cost-effective, secure, one-click backup solution that’s scalable based on your backup storage needs. The centralized management interface makes it easy to define backup policies and protect a wide range of enterprise workloads, including Azure Virtual Machines, SQL and SAP databases, and Azure file shares.

Take advantage of fully managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible via the industry-standard SMB and NFS protocols. Azure Files shares can be mounted concurrently by cloud or on-premises deployments of Windows, Linux, and macOS. 

Store and access unstructured data at scale including cloud-native workloads, archives, data lakes, high-performance computing, and machine learning.

Get high-performance, durable block storage for your mission- and business-critical applications. Confidently migrate to Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) with disk storage options built for the cloud—Ultra Disk Storage, Premium SSD v2, Premium SSD, Standard SSD, and Standard HDD—to optimize costs and performance for your workload.

Explore the comprehensive suite of Azure storage services for object, block, and file storage to meet your data’s highest demands. Easily scale your performance, get high availability and enterprise-grade security, and unify data management with Microsoft cloud storage solutions.

Security

Protect your enterprise from advanced threats across hybrid cloud workloads.

Secure your environment with a multicloud identity and access management service that provides single sign-on, multifactor authentication, and conditional access to guard against 99.9 percent of cybersecurity attacks.

Protect your Azure Virtual Network resources with cloud-native network security. The stateful firewall service has built-in high availability and unrestricted cloud scalability to help you create, enforce, and log application and network connectivity policies across subscriptions and virtual networks.

Easily deploy apps on a modern network architecture to build dynamic, high-quality digital experiences. Simplify cloud-native development with a fully programmable and API-driven service that is deeply integrated with a wide array of Azure services including Azure DNS and Azure Web Apps.

Get more secure and seamless Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) access to virtual machines (VMs) without any exposure through public IP addresses.

Protect web apps from common web-hacking techniques such as SQL injection and security vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting. Deploy the service in minutes to get complete visibility into your environment and block malicious attacks.

Strengthen your security posture, enable protection against modern threats, and reduce risk throughout the cloud application lifecycle across multicloud and hybrid environments with a unified cloud-native application protection platform.

Help protect your apps and resources with a profile automatically tuned to your expected traffic volume. Defend against even the most sophisticated attacks with an Azure global network that gives you dedicated monitoring, logging, telemetry, and alerts.

Control and help secure email, documents, and sensitive data that you share outside your company. From easy classification to embedded labels and permissions, enhance data protection at all times with Azure Information Protection—no matter where it’s stored or who it’s shared with.

Uncover sophisticated threats and respond decisively with an intelligent, comprehensive security information and event management (SIEM) solution for proactive threat detection, investigation, and response. Eliminate security infrastructure setup and maintenance, and elastically scale to meet your security needs—while reducing costs as much as 48 percent compared to legacy SIEM solutions.

Establish a secure, cross-premises connectivity that uses a specific type of virtual network gateway to send encrypted traffic between an Azure virtual network and on-premises locations over the public Internet.

Migration

Simplify and accelerate your migration to the cloud with guidance, tools, and resources.

Migrate to Azure in phases and modernize for faster innovation and a higher return on investment (ROI). Track and manage your cloud migration progress using a central dashboard for ease of management.

Easily migrate your data, schema, and objects from multiple sources to the cloud at scale.

Help your business to keep doing business—even during major IT outages. Azure Site Recovery offers ease of deployment, cost effectiveness, and dependability. Deploy replication, failover, and recovery processes through Site Recovery to help keep your applications running during planned and unplanned outages.

Move large amounts of data to Azure when you’re limited by time, network availability, or costs, using common copy tools such as Robocopy. All data is AES-encrypted, and the devices are wiped clean after upload, in accordance with NIST Special Publication 800-88 revision 1 standards.

AI & Machine Learning

Create the next generation of applications using artificial intelligence capabilities for any developer and any scenario.

Foresee problems before they occur with an Azure AI anomaly detection service. Anomaly Detector ingests time-series data of all types and selects the best anomaly detection algorithm for your data to ensure high accuracy. Detect spikes, dips, deviations from cyclic patterns, and trend changes through both univariate and multivariate APIs.

Design and build enterprise-grade conversational AI bots. Azure Bot Service’s integration with Power Virtual Agents, a fully hosted low-code platform, enables developers of all technical abilities to build conversational AI bots with no code needed.

Build, deploy, and manage high-quality models faster and with confidence. Azure Machine Learning accelerates time to value with industry-leading machine learning operations (MLOps), open-source interoperability, and integrated tools. This trusted AI learning platform is designed for responsible AI applications in machine learning.

Create intelligent tools and applications using large language models and deliver innovative solutions that automate document processing, improve customer service, understand the root cause of anomalies, extract insights from content, and more.

Customize and embed state-of-the-art computer vision image analysis for specific domains with AI Custom Vision, part of Azure Cognitive Services. Build frictionless customer experiences, optimize manufacturing processes, accelerate digital marketing campaigns, and more. No machine learning expertise is required.

Build applications with conversational language understanding, a Cognitive Service for Language feature that understands natural language to interpret user goals and extracts key information from conversational phrases.

Translate audio from more than 30 languages and customize your translations for your organization’s specific terms—all in your preferred programming language.

Build intelligent document processing solutions. Massive amounts of data, spanning a wide variety of data types, are stored in forms and documents. Form Recognizer enables you to effectively manage the velocity at which data is collected and processed and is key to improved operations, informed data-driven decisions, and enlightened innovation.

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