MICROSOFT AZURE

Predicting how much and how quickly your business will grow isn’t always easy, and if your technology can’t keep up to date you could soon find yourself with a big problem. Referred to by Microsoft as the future of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Azure is ideal for businesses going through times of change and seamlessly integrates with a huge range of industries. It’s an intuitive and highly scalable Cloud solution created to design and operate a variety of applications across different data centres. It covers everything from marketing campaigns to big data, enabling you to understand your customers better and give them more of what they want.

 

Features Include:

  • Virtual networking
  • Website building
  • SQL database
  • Caching
  • CDN
  • Windows servers and Linux machines
  • Mobile services
  • Integrated marketing campaigns and media services
  • Business analytics
  • Hadoop

What Is Azure?

At its core, Microsoft Azure is Microsoft’s powerhouse cloud computing platform, launched in 2010. Instead of investing in your own servers, you tap into Microsoft’s global network of data centres to build, deploy, and manage virtually anything—websites, apps, data systems, AI models, and beyond—on demand

Why It’s a Game-Changer:

  • Scale on Tap 

Need a server for a weekend hackathon or want to support millions of users daily? Azure scales with you—up or down—charging only for what you use.

  • Super Broad Toolbox

Azure boasts over 600 services—covering virtual machines, storage, networking, databases, AI, analytics, IoT, DevOps, and even quantum computing.

  • Cloud for Everyone

Whether you’re an indie developer or a Fortune 500 company (95% of them use Azure), the platform supports Windows, Linux, .NET, Java, Python, PHP—you name it.

  • Flexible Cloud (Hybrid & Multi)

Azure doesn’t care where your data lives—on-premises, another cloud, or at the edge. It unifies it all seamlessly, with built-in AI helpers.

  • Security & Trust—Baked In

With 400+ data centres across 70+ regions, plus Microsoft-level security baked into hardware, networking, and operations, Azure is built for mission-critical reliability.

What Makes It Exciting Today!

  • AI-First Era: Azure now powers the backbone of Microsoft’s AI revolution, with 33% year-over-year revenue growth from AI workloads. It’s investing ~ £58 billion in AI data centres to lead the pack.
  • Innovation Leader: Named a “Leader” in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant; beating competitors in hyper scaling and cloud services.
  • Customer Chatter: From startups using Java to large enterprises shifting workloads, Azure continues to evolve beyond its .NET roots—embracing open source and custom solution.