Nowadays, information technology (IT) plays a crucial role in managing and operating business activities in organizations, enhancing management capabilities, labor productivity, and product/service quality. However, in some places, the application of IT is still fragmented, lacking a clear investment roadmap and not aligned with the strategic goals of the leadership. This leads to inefficient IT investments, waste, or a failure to keep up with the organization's development requirements. To address these challenges, Enterprise Architecture (EA) needs to be built to create a comprehensive design of the relationships between all current and future business activities with IT applications, identify the overall IT application plan, and contribute to achieving the highest possible efficiency in meeting the set strategic goals.
OVERVIEW
ENTERPRISES aim to create competitive strength and flexibility for their business operations anywhere. That's why they are shifting towards cloud computing to improve their business operations. The question is how to propose a cloud computing solution with the best services to meet each customer's specific needs.
Microsoft Azure provides flexibility with an open cloud platform, enabling businesses to develop their operations more efficiently and respond quickly to changes. With Azure, enterprises can initiate and operate, flexibly scale up and down as per their needs, and avoid paying for the usage costs they don't need. Azure also works seamlessly with other Microsoft software and services such as Windows Server, SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint, helping to back up and securely store a company's most critical information.
By enabling Microsoft Azure and cloud computing, businesses can maintain their competitive edge without expanding their budgets. Azure helps businesses bring products and services to market quickly. They can instantly scale with everything they need to support global business development. They can conduct their business activities more efficiently by only paying for the services they actually utilize. They can also allocate their budgets to other business activities by eliminating new hardware investment costs. And they can achieve enterprise-level security while protecting the data and safety of their data centers - something that most of the world's largest organizations meet today.
DATA STORAGE
Azure allows businesses to quickly and easily move applications from on-premises servers to the cloud, helping them avoid the cost of investing in new servers. The cloud computing infrastructure also enables businesses to easily scale as needed. Businesses also have multiple data backups in geographically chosen regions.
BACKUP DATA
Azure provides easy and reliable backup solutions for business data and applications. By eliminating typical infrastructure costs associated with storage, businesses only pay for the data they use. Additionally, costs for servers and data transfer are reduced. Furthermore, businesses can rest assured that the applications stored on Azure have the same level of security, trusted by Microsoft's enterprise customers, including many of the world's largest financial organizations.
STORING WEBSITES
With Azure, businesses can easily and quickly store websites with scalable cloud capabilities. Microsoft leverages worldwide data centers to provide businesses and their customers with a reliable, satisfying, and secure experience without the need for infrastructure investment.
DATA RECOVERY
Microsoft offers the Azure Backup service to backup data and assist customers in recovering their data in case of incidents. Depending on the service package, Microsoft replicates backups into 3 or 9 identical copies and places them on separate servers to provide clients with up to 99.9% recovery capacity.
IDENTITY AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT (IAM)
Simplifying the management and security of enterprise applications for IT staff by securing access rights with Multi-Factor Authentication and Self-service reset password. With Azure Active Directory, Microsoft offers various service packages to meet different customer needs.
APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
Microsoft provides customers with a virtual environment (Virtual Machine) to support testing of product applications before release. In addition, Azure also supports various database management systems to help businesses run applications on across different platforms.
INTEGRATED USER MANAGEMENT WITH EMS
Microsoft has integrated Azure and EMS to enhance user management capabilities for businesses. Intune configures policies that mobile devices must comply with when joining a company, while Azure AD RMS protects enterprise data from security risks. Additionally, Azure AD Premium helps reduce IT staff's management time by enabling users to reset their own passwords.
Introduction to Microsoft Azure cloud computing security
A common concern for many young businesses when moving to a cloud computing environment is the safety and security of their data. With Microsoft and their data centers worldwide, businesses will receive a level of data protection and physical security that far exceeds the firewall protection at the company level. Azure provides businesses with peace of mind knowing that their applications and data are protected at the same level trusted by Microsoft's enterprise customers, including many of the world's largest financial organizations.
Azure's Global Datacenter Network
Azure's Global Datacenter Network
Azure's infrastructure includes a global investment portfolio with over 100 datacenters, 1 million servers, distribution networks, computing nodes, and fiber optic networks. This investment portfolio is built and managed by a team of experts working 24x7x365 to support services for over 1 billion customers.
Why choose Microsoft Azure?
Only Microsoft provides a flexible platform that allows businesses to choose the best path for their needs, whether it's on-premises infrastructure, cloud computing, or a hybrid of both. Azure is a core part of the overall vision to help clouds operate seamlessly in the IT system as an optimal solution for the particular demands of the business.
Azure is an open and flexible platform that provides all the infrastructure blocks to quickly build, deploy, and manage cloud-based solutions. Azure offers a range of services based on demand through applications, computing, storage, and network systems. Businesses can build applications using any language, tool, or framework they want on a fully automated personal service platform, allowing them to provision backup and resource expansion in minutes.
With Azure, customers can choose to build and develop software applications using tools they select. In addition, Azure supports users in testing software on a virtual machine before deploying it in practice.
Deploying applications on virtual machines
With Azure, businesses can use available tools to quickly create and deploy applications without spending time and costs managing infrastructure. Azure offers security and flexible development, deployment, and scaling options for any application size. Server applications are verified to run on virtual machines.
+ Avoid infrastructure investment costs.
+ Reduce IT management burden.
Website hosting
Azure enables businesses to grow their business by helping them move their websites to the cloud.
+ Build, deploy, and manage websites quickly and flexibly on a cloud computing platform.
+ Scale immediately to meet changes and fluctuations in website usage.
+ Create peace of mind from storing data on Microsoft-managed global data centers.
Cloud backup
Azure provides long-term cloud storage, backup, and recovery for both large and small data. Azure also works with existing infrastructure to enhance cost-effectiveness for existing applications and continuous business strategies.
+ Use for a range of applications including server files, Sharepoint, SQL Server, Exchange, and BizTalk Server.
+ Leverage the advantages of backup encryption and global redundant data centers.
+ Provide fast and easy storage on demand.
Access identity
Azure provides businesses with the ability to identify user access to the system and secure access through multi-factor authentication. Azure helps protect customer's confidential data and applications from security threats.
+ Provide the ability to scale on-premises Active Directory systems to on-cloud.
+ Integrate with other cloud systems such as Salesforce, Office 365, Box, etc.
+ Use on different platforms and devices.
Providing Disaster Recovery Solutions
Azure's data recovery system suggests a way to generate additional revenue streams for strong, simple, and affordable disaster recovery (DR) on the cloud, ensuring that businesses can backup and operate within minutes when a disaster strikes.
+ Use Azure as a disaster recovery solution and leverage it to automate the recovery of corporate workloads.
+ Avoid large capital expenditures in building the DR infrastructure for the business.
+ Deploy within minutes and then leverage remote monitoring capabilities.
HPT's value-added services
- Technology assessment.
- Surveying the current situation and practical needs.
- Overall design and project implementation planning.
- Standardizing services that are suitable for the business operation model.
- TAutomating business processes.
- Converting, deploying, and managing.
- Administration services:
+ Providing administrators with expertise in cloud computing solutions.
+ Managing user accounts, creating and testing applications.
+ Managing remote control and screen administration based on registration.
+ Providing 24/7 phone and on-site support and troubleshooting.
+ Transferring technology to the IT administration and operation staff of the business on infrastructure, cloud computing, and hybrid environment.