Move to Azure - or get locked in on the outside.

Perhaps you are one of those trying to find the right reasons to move your your computing power to Azure? Who can't find the motivators that answer the question: why? We want to give you the answers that will make you see the possibilities of a move and the benefits it can bring to your business.

In fact, many companies already use Microsoft Outlook, Teams and Office products through their Microsoft 365 licenses. By using Microsoft 365, you have already taken the first step to Azure. So the question is whether you should stick with the servers in the basement for various applications such as business systems and various databases, or whether it's actually time to take the full step into the cloud.. 

Here we list various arguments and advantages of moving your data center to Azure

7 good opportunities and reasons to move your IT to Azure

• When it is time for new purchasespurchases: When the time comes to buy new equipment for your local server room, you may want to consider moving to the cloud in instead of investing in more hardware.
• When agreementand with existing IT suppliers expires: To plan for and implement a move to Azure. in connection with the expiration of existing contracts, is smart and avoids double costs.
• When you review and want toreduce the cost of capitals: Buyingbuying new hardwarewhich you also need to renew at regular intervals, makes you bindare capital in servers. Something you avoid by moving IT to the cloud and Microsoft Azure.
• When requirements for compliance change: Laws and regulations are constantly changing. An organization can also clarify its policies which changes how you may and should work with data, personal data etc.. In the context of these kinds of changes, it may also be smart to consider the cloud as a good way forward.
• When new requirements are on data ownershiprownership: Data ownership determines who is considered the owner of the data. On this basis it becomes necessary to review who who has the right to change or access certain data. This type of change requires a lot of development if you have servers., but authorization and protection of data is quite easy to manage i Microsoft Azure.
• When you get tired of interference or systems being down: By using Azure reduces you interruptions due to hardware breakdowns and you don't have to shut down your business for maintenance work on servers.
• When you want to reduce carbon footprint and work more sustainably: Having your own set of servers places high demands on redundancy in the electrical system and consumes a lot of energy. By moving to Azure the carbon footprint becomes positive because Microsoft's Azuredata center is CO2neutral. This improves the environmental profile of your business.

6 added values for your business that can be achieved by moving to Azure

• Cost savings: In addition to not having to tie up capital, you can control costs according to your needs. This allows you to influence the economics of thecomputing power you pay for.
• Smaller number of suppliers: Having your own data center requires premises, insurance, power supply and other things where you need to use external suppliers. By choosing the right Azureand IT partner, you have only one supplier to turn to for questions about server capacity.
• Business optimization: By moving to Azure, your business can be optimized and thestaff that was previouslyneeded to operate your on-premises server can focus on other things.
• Opportunities for scaling: By migrating to Azure, you never have to worry about capacity again. You can increase and decrease computing power depending on how much is required for your business.
• Increased geographical mobility: If scaling is about increasing resources, this is about moving them. One day, your company's services may be in greater demand in another part of the world and you may be able to distribute them.
• Integrations: This is about linking different systems that need to share the same data. You might want to create links with thecustomer system andidentity management, or link the financial system with the invoicescanning system,or you might have two web applications that need to work together. Integrations are much easier to manage in Microsoft Azure.

Think about the value your organization would gain from moving all or several parts of your IT to Microsoft Azure. Also make sure to find the right timing and triggers to actually find the motivation to do it now, rather than later.

If you want to know more about Microsoft Azure and how to migrate and move your data center to the cloud, take part in our webinar - Should you migrate your data center to Microsoft Azure. Read more about it here. Or contact us at WeSafe and we will tell you more!