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Why Use Azure Cloud Original
Why Use Azure Cloud Original
Why Use Azure Cloud Original
to the cloud
Exploring the benefits of infrastructure in the cloud, from cost-effectiveness to scalability
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478%
• Avoid costs on license renewals
• Switch from capital expenditure to operating expense
• [Other financial benefits]
after Year 3.*
•
Increase the efficiency and productivity of managing
compliance tools, the compliance environment, and auditing
Reduce costs of compliance-related penalties
$4.29 million/
year
• Improve agility in responding to new and ever-changing average value achieved by leveraging
national and international regulations cloud IaaS for compliance*
• Enhance the overall productivity of auditing and compliance
teams as well as IT support
• Reduce the incidence of unplanned downtime and minimize
the use of help desk
Improve backup
and disaster recovery
44% more efficient with Azure
Disaster recovery as a service, delivered via
data recovery teams* the cloud, dramatically changes the
economics of disaster recovery, making
• 99% reduction in lost productivity it both affordable and cost-effective for
• 66% reduction in average data recovery time nearly every organization.
• 76% faster backups
Moreover, organizations can ensure the survival of their
data in the event of a disaster and can quickly reestablish
application services using on‐demand infrastructure.
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Why migrate to
cloud infrastructure now? Migration now means:
It will allow us to enable quick scalability and
increase innovation, all while reducing costs. We are paving the way
• Datacenter contracts expiring for greater innovation.
• Integrating acquisitions
• Urgent capacity needs
• Moving from CapEx to OpEx
Empowering our business
• Software and hardware refresh
to more effectively
• Security threats
compete at scale.
• Compliance
• Application innovation We reduce costs related
• Application delivery speed to IT overhead and capital
• Software end of support expenditures.
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Why Azure
infrastructure?
Infrastructure as a service provides enormous
benefits to our business.
Secure Savings Innovative Making the move to the Cloud l #
Komatsu found that Azure is more secure Smithfield: Slashed datacenter costs by “Being able to leverage so many off-the-shelf
because the service chain of the cloud 60 percent and reduced new-application services and tools from Azure enabled us to
includes extensive security measures. delivery from two months to one day. go from zero to a full-fledged e-commerce
marketplace in just about 12 months.”
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