When we talk about Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Teams, Dynamics, and all the other software that makes up the Microsoft Platform, we really are talking about an ecosystem. Microsoft has made it possible to run so many aspects of your business on a unified collection of advanced functionality.

Why cloud? What is all the hype around cloud solutions?

First, let's consider some statistics on cloud services, and how popular it has become by 2020:

• About 90% of companies are on now the cloud
• Cloud data centers will process 94% of workloads in 2021
• The average business runs 38% of workloads in public and 41% in private cloud
• Cost optimization is the primary reason for 47% of enterprises’ cloud migration
• Cloud apps can aid companies’ collaborative tasks, file sharing, content sharing, and data security. The average employee uses 36 cloud-based services in their daily routine
• Public cloud IaaS workloads will experience 60% fewer security incidents than traditional data centers by 2020
• Cloud technology is so reliable when it comes to safety that 94% of businesses report significant improvements in online security after moving their data to the cloud

Sources: hostingtribunal.com, techjury.com

With the Microsoft Cloud solution, you get a number of features not possible with on-premise software:

• Automatic hardware and operating system management
• Pay-as-you-go and pay only for what you need
• Automatic scaling of resources
• Triple redundancy and backup
• Universal access based on the permissions model
• Access to the entire cloud group of services: storage, computation, analysis, visualization, security
• Cloud services integration/security with your Microsoft 365 applications

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