What’s a Cloud Data Warehouse?
Storing Data: An Introduction Once upon a time, businesses relied on physical services and repositories
Growth can’t happen if you don’t have the infrastructure to accommodate it. That means you’ll either have to continue adding hardware to your on-premise data center, or you might have to consider alternative options. One of the most popular options today is a third-party cloud-hosted data center.
But why would you want to migrate your in-house data center to a third-party host? There are a number of very important reasons:
Now that you know why, what about the where? What third-party company might be best suited for your needs? One such hosting service is Microsoft Azure.
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Back in 2005, Ray Ozzie sent out an internal memo to Microsoft that spoke to a vision of building a disruptive platform used to replicate the likes of Windows, .NET application services, and MS Office via the internet. Initially, Steve Balmer (CEO of Microsoft at the time) wasn’t a fan of the software as a service paradigm, out of fear it would eat into the company’s bottom line (that primarily consisted of Windows and MS Office).
Eventually, however, Balmer was convinced and came out to say Microsoft was “betting our company” on the cloud. At that time (2010) 70% of Microsoft employees were working on cloud-related projects and, according to Balmer, that figure would reach 90% by the following year.
Satya Nadella then came on board as the new Microsoft CEO and rallied the company around a mobile/cloud-first strategy. On February 1, 2010, Microsoft Azure was made available.
Microsoft Azure cloud services are broken down into categories such as:
Clearly, Microsoft Azure could serve as your company’s one-stop-shop for every data center/cloud host need you could possibly have. And with data centers around the world, Azure can serve any business on any continent, in any country.
Azure uses a pay-as-you-go model for pricing, which means you are only charged for what you use. That doesn’t mean it’s exactly simple to calculate. The cost of Azure is based on several factors.
Because of the complication of calculating costs, Microsoft developed tools that can help you ensure you remain within budget, called Azure Cost Management and Billing. Once you’ve started using Azure, you should seriously consider making use of these tools to help keep control of your cloud-hosting/data center budget.
Your business is going to grow and, when it does, you’ll need to be able to scale to meet demands. If your current data center solution can’t handle your growth, your best bet might be relocating it to a third-party cloud-hosted provider, such as Microsoft Azure. With such a service, your business can enjoy unlimited growth, without downtime, outages, or budget-breaking bills.
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