A number of opportunities exist on the Azure platform for businesses to extend and enhance their critical systems. These might include extending the capability and accessibility of data, extension of application lifetime, or cost effective and reliable storage of data.
Azure provides a cost effective solution to a number of common scenarios where budget restrictions can often prove to be a challenge.
In the following five scenarios, we consider the business value and opportunities available to you, identifying the pain points and the technologies that can solve them. New Application Development, Application Extension, Application Migration and Maintenance, Storage and Data Center Extension.
Azure Utilisation Patterns - Usage patterns on applications, particularly those with a public face are rarely predictable. Public holidays and seasonal variations can unleash large demands on a system, which are typically handled by expensive overcapacity. Some peaks however are not foreseen and can lead to poor performance or even outright failure. View the Azure Utilisation Patterns
here.
Azure for ISV's - The Windows Azure Platform allows ISV’s to run their applications and store their data in Microsoft Datacentres rather than in their customer’s premises, their own datacentre or in a hoster. Review the benefits to ISV's here.