Why Australian Enterprises Are Choosing Microsoft Azure Over Traditional IT

With the acceleration of Digital Transformation, more and more Australian companies are transferring from traditional IT infrastructure to Cloud Computing solutions. And 95% of Fortune 500 companies choose Microsoft Azure to be their trusted Cloud Computing platform. This transformation is not just an upgrade of technology, but more as a strategic choice of efficiency, cost, flexibility and innovation.

Advantages of Azure over traditional IT

Reduced Cost

Traditional IT infrastructure needs companies to invest a large amount of money to buy hardware, software, and maintain equipment. While Azure’s pay-as-you-go model allows companies to only pay for the resources that are actually used, which greatly lowers the upfront investment, operational costs, and maintenance costs.

Flexibility and Scalability

The expansion of traditional IT infrastructure normally takes weeks and months, while Azure can provide the needed compute and storage resources in minutes. This flexibility enables companies to rapidly adapt to market changes, address business needs, and develop international markets.

Enhanced Security

Compared to traditional IT solutions, Azure’s security services are more comprehensive and advanced. Multi-layered protections are provided with Azure to secure companies’ data and applications security. With Azure Active Directory, Companies can manage user identities and authorizations. With Azure Security Centre, companies can get real time threat detection and protection. Azure Key Vault provides data encryption and key management.

Empowered Innovation

Azure provides comprehensive tools and services to drive innovations, such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, IoT and Big Data Analysis, which can help companies to develop new and cutting-edge services and products. Services provided including Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Machine Learning, Azure IoT Hub, IoT Central, Azure Synapse Analytics and more.

Enhanced Continuity

In the context of traditional IT, there’s always the challenge of data back-up and recovery when facing hardware dysfunctionality and natural disaster. With global network and data centers, load balancers and Azure Site Recovery, Azure is able to provide high availability and disaster recovery solutions to ensure business continuity.

Australian Companies Use Cases

As the key distributor of electricity to most of South Australia, SA Power Networks found solutions in Azure in transitioning from traditional IT to cloud computing. With SAP on Microsoft Azure, SA Power Networks implemented effective cloud migrations and reduced their datacenter footprint by around 30 percent.

Processing one-third of all the email flow in New Zealand, SMX leverages the capabilities of Azure services, especially a  BYOIP product from Azure, called Custom IP address Prefix. \ SMX got rid of on-premises delivery agents and reduced mail delivery costs for infrastructure by 77 percent.

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