So many businesses on the Gold Coast and around Australia choose to move to Azure to help them lower costs.

So how can you save money hosting on Microsoft Azure?

It’s not too hard to find savings in a solution that’s got so many features and benefits.

The cost usually, like anything, can sometimes come with the initial setup and then over time is where you start to notice the benefits (and the cost savings).

Once you start your move to the cloud the work doesn’t just stop there though.

There is still plenty to do to ensure you’re maximising the performance while keeping an eye on your monthly spend too

I’m sure we know a Local IT Business that can help you out with that!

But in the end, once set up and running efficiently, you will reap what you sow in regards to money saved.

So below we will quickly run through some of the potential ways (depending on your business), you can save money while hosting on Azure.

Microsoft Azure has made massive strides as a market leader in recent times.

For those who don’t know, understand or believe it, here is our take on “When do I need to use Microsoft Azure?”

There are many different types of businesses who have started using Azure as the alternative to running their own data centers.

These businesses thought that instead of investing more money in their local storage and servers, it will be effective to run all of their business applications in Azure.

One of the main reasons for this recent development is Microsoft Azure has an ever-expanding set of cloud services that can help any organisation meeting its technology challenges related to running a modern business.

If you are looking for elasticity and scalability, Azure is something you need.

In addition, it provides quantifiable services which include analytics, databases, mobile apps, storage, networking and more.

Confused yet?

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Azure File Sync is the latest service from Microsoft, once again it’s designed to make things easier for businesses. This design helps businesses connect data in a different but more simplified and efficient way.

It provides a great solution to your business if you are not satisfied with the current hybrid cloud services, or if you are continually struggling with your file server capacity.

Not only that, it is also an effective solution to share files across multiple offices without compromising the security of data while having a centralised backup for all file shares for all offices at different locations. By doing so, Azure File Sync also provides transparency and security without compromising its performance for you.

So, let’s see how Azure File Sync does all this, and how it can be a good option for your business.

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What are the benefits of using Azure VMs or more to the point, what are Azure VMs and how will they benefit your business?

Well you have arrived at the right place if you are looking at learning how Microsoft Azure and more specifically Microsoft Office 365 can help your business’s future, saving you time and money on the way.

We all could use a bit of savings in both of those departments can’t we? Now onto learning.

Cloud technology is the future – it is an open secret and the reason why all organisations, no matter how small or how big, are moving to cloud technology by using services like Microsoft Office 365 and Azure.

Cloud technology and services like Office 365 and Azure offer benefits and features that were previously not possible with on-premise machines and networks.

One of these features or benefits is Azure VMs, also known as Azure Virtual Machines.

These smart virtual machines allow users to create and run their own VMs, based on their choice of operating system, language, and of course, workload.

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