The growing demand for 24/7 technology services is placing extra workload on companies and cloud services help to attain and manage these services well in advance. 

A cloud based solution refers to on-demand services, computer networks, storage, applications or resources accessed via Internet. Cloud-based solutions can enable companies to focus on revenue driving initiatives rather than time-consuming, non-core business tasks. 

Virtual Machine

Server consolidation is a top reason to use VMs. Most operating system and application deployments only use a small amount of the physical resources available when deployed to bare metal. By virtualizing your servers, you can place many virtual servers onto each physical server to improve hardware utilization and reduce cost 

Benefits of virtual machines:

  • Multiple OS environments can exist simultaneously on the same machine, isolated from each other.
  • Virtual machine can offer an instruction set architecture that differs from real computer
  • Easy maintenance, application provisioning, availability and convenient recovery.
  • Reduction of personnel costs, power, and cooling by using less physical equipment.
  • Better utilization of hardware Creates independent user environments. Keeping everything separate is especially useful for purposes like software testing.
  • Reduced downtime.
  • Ease of migration environments – prevents reinstallation and reconfiguration of systems to be migrated.

Virtual Machine

Server consolidation is a top reason to use VMs. Most operating system and application deployments only use a small amount of the physical resources available when deployed to bare metal. By virtualizing your servers, you can place many virtual servers onto each physical server to improve hardware utilization and reduce cost 

Benefits of virtual machines:

  • Multiple OS environments can exist simultaneously on the same machine, isolated from each other.
  • Virtual machine can offer an instruction set architecture that differs from real computer
  • Easy maintenance, application provisioning, availability and convenient recovery.
  • Reduction of personnel costs, power, and cooling by using less physical equipment.
  • Better utilization of hardware Creates independent user environments. Keeping everything separate is especially useful for purposes like software testing.
  • Reduced downtime.
  • Ease of migration environments – prevents reinstallation and reconfiguration of systems to be migrated.

Blob Storage

Azure Blob storage is Microsoft’s object storage solution for the cloud. Blob storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data. 

Blob storage is designed for: 

  • Serving images or documents directly to a browser. 
  • Storing files for distributed access. 
  • Streaming video and audio. 
  • Writing to log files. 
  • Storing data for backup and restore, disaster recovery, and archiving
  • Storing data for analysis by an on-premises or Azure-hosted service. 

Benefits of blob storage 

Scalable, durable and available, Secured , Comprehensive data management , Optimised for data, Built-in data security, Built-in data security 

Managed Disk

Azure managed disks are block-level storage volumes that are managed by Azure and used with Azure Virtual Machines. Managed disks are like a physical disk in an on-premises server but virtualized. With managed disks, all you have to do is specify the disk size, the disk type, and provision the disk. Once you provision the disk, Azure handles the rest. 

 

Managed Disk

Azure managed disks are block-level storage volumes that are managed by Azure and used with Azure Virtual Machines. Managed disks are like a physical disk in an on-premises server but virtualized. With managed disks, all you have to do is specify the disk size, the disk type, and provision the disk. Once you provision the disk, Azure handles the rest. 

 

Azure backup

The Azure Backup service provides simple, secure, and cost-effective solutions to back up your data and recover it from the Microsoft Azure cloud. 

Data that you can backup includes: 

Files 
Folders 
System states 
App-specific data 
Fileshares 
Machine configurations