Infographic: Save Money and Maximize Value with Azure Infrastructure

Infographic: Save Money and Maximize Value with Azure Infrastructure

Businesses around the globe have been adjusting IT priorities to enable remote work and optimize costs and efficiencies while investing in smart ways to prepare for recovery and future growth. Accelerating the adoption of cloud computing and taking advantage of modern cloud infrastructure with Azure will help you achieve these goals: 


1. Enable productivity from anywhere  

Provide a consistent work experience with desktops and apps—accessible from virtually anywhere—with Windows Virtual Desktop. Give employees secure access to any resource they need through Azure VPN Gateway. 


2. Maintain business continuity

Deploy simple, cost-effective, and efficient cloud backup and disaster recovery solutions with Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery to minimize business disruption. To ensure always-on connectivity that sustains remote work, consider using Azure Virtual WAN, along with supported partner SD-WAN devices.

  • 76% Faster Backups
  • 66% Reduction in average data recovery time
  • 337% 5-year return on investment 


3. Help secure workloads from cyberattacks 

Help secure your hybrid workloads and networks with industry leading intelligence and built-in security controls like Azure Sentinel, Azure Security Center, Azure DDoS Protection, and Azure Firewall. 


4. Manage and govern hybrid environments 

Extend Azure management to any infrastructure across on-premises, multi-cloud, and the edge with Azure Arc. Bring Azure data services to any cloud and any Kubernetes clusters, with Azure Arc enabled data services. 


5. Increase return on investment by migrating to the cloud 

Accelerate cloud migration to Azure to reduce capital expenditure, realize cost savings, and speed up time to value. Take advantage of offers and programs such as Azure Hybrid Benefit, free migration tools, and the Azure Migration Program. 

  • $10M in savings from avoided on-premises infrastructure and staff costs

  • 478% 3-year Return on investment  


6. Simplify and accelerate SAP migration  

Bring the intelligence, security, and reliability of Azure to your mission-critical SAP applications. Accelerate cloud migration of SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA workloads through a well-defined path designed by the Embrace initiative. 


7. Modernize on-premises infrastructure  

Bring the cloud to your on-premises datacenter with Azure Stack Hub to build and deploy consistent hybrid applications. Use Azure Stack HCI to consolidate on-premises applications on cloud-connected hyperconverged infrastructure—and get the best price and performance. 


8. Continuously optimize the cost of your workloads

Get clear visibility into cloud resource usage, identify new opportunities to optimize usage, and increase cost savings with Azure Advisor and Azure Cost Management + Billing.

Need help determining where you are in your cloud journey and how to accelerate to next steps? 

BDO Digital’s Cloud Acceleration Assessment can give you the information you need to drive smart business decisions and plan your AI journey.