Every organization or business goes through hardships in IT operations, and without a proper IT team, companies can face major downtimes and a huge loss. Hence every company requires some services to help them with the difficulties and curb the complexities. This blog is regarding one of the top-notch services that every company needs, i.e., the Azure Managed services.
The topic covered in this blog are :
- Managed Services
- Azure Managed Services Overview
- How does Azure Managed Service Work?
- Types of Azure Managed Services
- Infrastructure managed Services
- End to End security management services
- Azure Service Optimisation
- Benefits of Azure Managed Services
- Case – Study
- Conclusion
Before moving on, let’s get to know the basics first; So; what exactly is a Managed Service? Time to march forward!
Managed Services
Managed Service attributes to the outsourcing of the IT provinces to a third party. There will be a service provider popularly known as Managed Service Provider (MSP) that offers security, network, application, and infrastructure. MSP will also help build the future infrastructure of a business and integrate technological decisions in the company. They extend their hand for regular support and actively look after the administration and maintenance services.
Azure Managed Services Overview
Azure is the best amalgam of technology, cloud, and business solutions. Azure is part of Microsoft. Enabling Azure services will help the business and companies monitor, supervising, and improvising the Azure applications. Through Azure Managed Services, one can make their business brought to the cloud and seamlessly perform myriad operations to enhance the business core values. It provides various operations that organizations can opt for according to their business needs.
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How Does Azure Managed Service Work?
Consulting It is the first step in which the expert team of Azure cloud managed services consults the issue with the organization. |
Solution The second is the Solution section, in which optimized and suitable solutions are selected according to the issues encountered. |
Migration The last step is migration; the company’s IT infrastructure system will be migrated to the cloud under expert guidance and observations. |
Different Types of Azure Managed Services
Azure provides us with more than a handful of services to choose from. It indeed is a one-stop solution for a business thinking of moving to a cloud environment. Let’s look at some of the services that it has to offer us.
Azure Cloud Architecture
Azure manages its architecture functionality with the help of Virtualization technology. Virtualization is nothing but a combination of software and hardware, where software instructions are embedded for the hardware functionality. Azure Cloud Architecture has a huge network and server clusters that help in performing operations.
The various services that are included in Azure Cloud Architecture are to provide meticulous and effective guidance for all the Azure Services. It also provides execution procedures on Hybrid, PaaS, and LaaS models. In addition to that, it engages audit simulation and provides infrastructure support. It also includes disaster management, recovery planning, and protection services. Likewise, it conducts configuration and helps in updating changes according to the infrastructure component.
Azure Cloud Migration
Azure Cloud Migration is the easiest and most sought out process that helps migrates the existing application to the cloud. Azure Cloud Migration will not only help in migrating but will also provide us with a cloud strategy. It conducts migration in three phases – first is the ‘migration stage’ which involves defining strategy and planning. The second is the ‘during migration’ stage that consists of the ready state for migrating the application and adopting cloud strategy by the organization. The last phase is ‘post-migration’, which involves managing the application on the cloud and optimizing for further processes. The various services that are included in Azure Cloud Migration are:
- It helps in migration planning.
- It conducts a migration assessment.
- Infrastructure migration to Azure IaaS.
- Database Migration from any database to SQL database of Azure.
Azure Cloud Management
Azure Management is the process that helps in maintaining the functionality of the business architecture, resources, and application. Azure provides various tools for managing the cloud environment. Azure management can be considered as a lifecycle that includes different phases starting from deployment, migration, configuration, monitoring, securing, and at last, governing the whole process.
The various services included in Azure Cloud Management are as follows; It provides managed services options for its cloud environment. It helps in updating and checking the system’s health. Azure Cloud Management helps alerting, updating, monitoring, and patching tasks. It analyzes the performance of the application and conducts reporting procedures.
Infrastructure Managed Services (IMS)
Infrastructure Managed Services is related to conducting and monitoring data, information, and technology dynamically. The services included in the infrastructure managed services are Network, Big Data Storages, Cybersecurity, Application Infrastructure, Data warehouse, and Onsite data centers. The primary motive of infrastructure managed services is to enhance the business’s productivity by managing business infrastructure.
There are various advantages of leveraging IMS. It helps in the immediate solving of the issues aroused in the IT department. Infrastructure managed Services helps in identifying service dips, mitigating the impact of network threats, and administrate service performance. IMS ensures that customer’s experience and performance of the business are enhanced. It helps in seamlessly conducting business functions with a quick response strategy. So, with agility-driven automation and streamlined process, a business can curb IT financing.
End-to-End Security Management Services
With the myriad of technologies and interconnection between them, security is at risk. Hence end-to-end security management services help in managing and protecting these securities. This is management’s first and foremost task to ensure that access is provided to authorized devices only. It helps in installing the security encryption methodology and technologies.
The various benefits that are gained while implementing end-to-end security management services are: It helps in meeting the compliance requirement and implementing it according to the business needs. It helps in providing a flexible, efficient, and scalable solution to a security threat. It also helps in responding quickly to cyber threats and rectify network policies. It also assists in managing the system and meticulously looks at incident management procedures.
Azure Services Optimization
Companies can ensure if their cloud operations are working properly or not with the help of Azure Services Optimisation. With the help of ‘Azure service Optimization’, the organization gain extended benefits from the already deployed solutions. It helps in simplifying the daily IT functions of organizations and ensures that the full potential of the applied solution is recognized. Hence it can be concluded that Azure Service Optimization helps leverage the best practices for organizations and helps to deploy advanced features and capabilities.
Benefits of Azure Managed Services
There are various reasons for businesses to opt for Azure Managed Services. This section will list a few why companies would love to connect with MSPs (Managed Service Providers).
- Businesses can shift focus towards their core value and leave the burden of performing IT services to MSPs.
- Azure Managed Service helps businesses keep track of the documentation and helps in reporting for standardization.
- It helps in upgrading the infrastructure and guide future applications to keep pace with new upcoming technologies.
- With Azure Managed Services, companies will get expert guidance for applications, technologies, and supporting tools at cost-effective rates.
- Azure Managed Service helps in curbing cyber threats and helps in protecting the organization’s security, affinities, and resources.
- It also helps decrease the downtime as the team gets aware of the threat beforehand and neutralizes them as soon as possible.
Case study
This section will discuss case studies of the companies that have enabled Azure Managed Services and now enjoying endless benefits.
Cisco’s Move to Azure Managed Services
Cisco Meraki is a multinational company that sells software, hardware, equipment, and other technology products and services. The different challenges faced by the company included connectivity issues, mining operations, and latency. Therefore company wanted to shift its legacy application to the cloud. Hence company decided to go with Azure Managed Services.
Enabling Azure Managed Services has helped the company attain process regulation, made the customization process easier, and helped in data sovereignty. Senior Product Line Manager, Cisco, Raviv Levi, said that with the help of Microsoft Azure, their cloud networking could be brought to the customer effectively and powerfully. It helped leverage Cisco SD-WAN, and Auto VPN attributed to the users and helped their customers connect seamlessly with these features.
(ops)logix Adapting Azure Managed Services
(ops)Logix is a software manufacturing company involved in developing plugins, products, and services to manage the infrastructure. The difficulties faced by the company are application deployment issues and trouble in migrating services to the cloud. Azure Managed Service (ops)logix guided their customer to easily deploy the applications. The company also saw reductions in their IT cost. Hence by integrating their application with cloud technology, the company can now easily track all documentation and provide better services and innovative products.
Conclusion
Integrating businesses with Azure Managed Services and migrating to the cloud will definitely help organizations to stand in today’s cutting throat competition. Also, it will help companies to attain astonishing benefits from its services and help them curb the security needs at minimum cost. Azure Managed Services helps companies to get expert guidance over applications, technologies, and tools at cost-effective rates. Hence it will help the organization solve all the IT issues proficiently and to increase productivity.
References/Related
- Virtual Networks In Microsoft Azure: VNet Peering, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway
- Azure ExpressRoute Vs. Azure VPN Gateway
- [AZ-104] Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification Exam: Everything You Need To Know
- Microsoft Azure VNet Peering (Microsoft Official)
- [AZ-900] Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification Exam: Everything You Must Know
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