Enterprises are under increasing pressure to deliver mobile applications faster to both business users and customers.
Deploying these applications in a public cloud environment allows enterprises to deliver mobile applications with greater ease. It’s faster, cheaper, and provides a highly scalable platform that delivers performance assurance to thousands or potentially millions of users. The vast majority of cloud applications today are deployed on either Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. While both are proven and popular platforms, Azure offers a number of features that make it an attractive option for application developers.
Here are nine reasons why building and hosting apps in Azure makes sense for enterprises
1. Your apps can reach more people.
Azure has a global footprint and supports all major device operating systems including Windows, Apple, and Android—giving you a potential audience of over a billion people.
2. You have built-in performance assurance.
One of the risks of deploying business applications in your own data center is the possibility of bandwidth bottlenecks. Because your data center is a shared and finite resource, bandwidth from internal applications can impact availability for external-facing applications and vice versa. By moving your apps to the Azure environment, you can be confident that application performance will always meet demand without impacting your data center.
3. You don’t have to wait to build out infrastructure.
Deploying apps internally often requires a dedicated test environment and, later, dedicated hardware to host the applications. Planning capacity for a new application can be problematic, and allocating application resources—even in a virtual environment—takes time. With Azure, you can literally begin building an app in minutes and deploy it into a fully ready production environment in seconds.
4. There are no high upfront costs.
Azure uses a pay per use model, which means you only pay for the capacity you use. There are no upfront costs for hardware or software, which makes it easier for departments to fund new applications.
5. It’s easier to roll out updates and new features.
Once you make a change to an application that is hosted in Azure, that change is available to all users almost instantly. That means users get a consistent service experience no matter where they are.
6. You don’t need to change the way you work.
Once of the real advantages of Azure is its openness. You can build applications in almost any environment (Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Python, etc.), so you can leverage the development skill sets you have today.
7. You can keep your apps on the outside and data on the inside.
Azure supports secure APIs for internal data so you can put your applications in the public cloud but keep your data in your data center.
8. You can take advantage of BLOB storage.
The Azure environment supports Binary Large Object (BLOB) storage, so enterprises can storage large amounts of unstructured data in the cloud for future analysis or external consumption (e.g., streaming audio/video).
9. You can use popular DevOps tools to automate the development process.
Developers who use DevOps tools such as Chef or Puppet can continue to use them in the Azure, as both have been integrated into Microsoft’s cloud platform.
Azure’s application-friendly environment makes it an excellent choice for developers who want flexibility, scalability, and speed—and who don’t want to break their budget or delay their deployment because of IT issues. At Rolta AdvizeX, we can help you manage and integrate your Azure applications with your legacy and private cloud infrastructure to run your IT environment as a single, seamless solution. With Azure and Rolta AdvizeX, you really do have the best of both worlds: flexibility and control.
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