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Exploring the benefits of infrastructure in the cloud, from cost-effectiveness to scalability
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Migrations Readiness
Azure resources
Appendix
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https://azure.microsoft.com/resources/forrester-economic-impact-azure-iaas/
Financial
benefits
Reduce costs and enable
new revenue streams
ROI of
• Save on datacenter and hardware leasing
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
more efficient IT
Moving infrastructure
compliance environment to Azure and its
management teams impacts on
compliance
How we can manage regulatory challenges
Key business value highlights: more effectively
24% more productive regulatory compliance teams
More IT organizations are seeing how moving infrastructure
39% improved agility in responding to new regulations to the cloud can increase the efficiency and productivity
of managing compliance tools, the compliance
35% lower costs of compliance-related penalties
environment, and auditing.
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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Readiness
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Why Azure
infrastructure?
Infrastructure as a service provides enormous
benefits to our business.
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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.”
Jet.com
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