Microsoft Azure
As Microsoft Partners, we provide Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure managed services including architecting, migration, security, maintenance and monitoring of your Microsoft Azure environments with a security and compliance emphasis.
How does Microsoft Azure work?
Why Silicon Overdrive?
Consultancy
Our team of Microsoft Azure consultants will assess your infrastructure and provide expertise and optimized solutions based on your business requirements.
Security and Compliance
Our services include security and compliance with significant expertise and experience in assisting customers secure their cloud infrastructures and achieve and maintain compliance.
Cost Optimisation and Management
We continually analyse your Microsoft Azure usage, optimise your architecture and implement controls to deliver cost saving.
Assessments
Our team will assess your existing cloud infrastructures for opportunities for improvement, cost optimization and alignment with best practices and security standards.
Architecting and Migration
We provide customers guideline Microsoft Azure architectures with usage estimates optimised for their requirements. These architectures are based on the Microsoft Azure and security best practices. Our teams build out and assist customers migrate to scalable, high availability, secure and optimised Microsoft Azure infrastructures.
Benefits
With Microsoft’s newly launched South African data centres.
There are two data centres in South Africa, which will reduce latency and provide data sovereignty. Get three additional years of security updates for free when you move your Windows Server or SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 workloads to Azure.
Cost Savings
As Microsoft Cloud Solution Providers (CSP) we offer our customers the option to be invoiced by us in ZAR for Azure usage at a reduced rate, no credit card required. Microsoft’s pricing is also pay-as-you-go, but they charge per minute, which provides a more exact pricing model.
Monitoring and Maintenance
Microsoft Azure has a shared Security and Compliance responsibility model. We provide customers with fully Managed Services inclusive of maintenance, monitoring and alerting, patch management and security hardening and services relieving customers of this operational burden.
Use Cases
Microsoft has published a few Case Studies for South African companies who have made the switch to Microsoft Azure. We have listed two of the case studies below to show you how Azure can help your business.
The Challenge
The Solution
The Outcome
Because SPAR adopted Azure, their distribution centers and stores can access critical functions through the cloud, so they can provision store-supporting applications and services in minutes – not the hours that it used to take. Similarly, this approach provides consistent access to a common set of solutions across the company – for everything from email to accounting. SPAR wants its people to work with standardized systems and standardized configurations. That’s the only way to make their digital transformation complete. Azure helps them make that goal a reality.
