Looking for scalable, flexible and cost-effective IT resources? The cloud could be the answer for your business.
At Fabric IT, we have helped companies spanning several industries make a problem-free transition to the cloud. We are boosting productivity, enhancing flexibility and providing advanced cloud security — while avoiding business disruption. As a long-standing Microsoft Gold Partner, we deliver bespoke solutions built around Microsoft Azure.
Cloud services, or cloud computing, deliver IT infrastructure, servers, software, networks, and databases via the Internet. Cloud services offer a more flexible approach to traditional IT resources, as you usually only pay for the storage you use, and you can access the cloud from any internet-connected device.
Most individuals and businesses use cloud services on a regular basis – such as checking your emails or sharing documents.
Azure is the world-leading cloud platform, created by Microsoft to allow organisations to run their IT infrastructure online. It can seamlessly integrate a range of more than 200 applications, and enable you to add new functions whenever necessary. Research shows that 95 percent of Fortune 500 companies trust Azure to keep their business running smoothly and securely.
Did you know that 30 percent of businesses experience some form of data loss every year? The consequences can range from inconvenient to catastrophic, depending on the nature of the data. Switch to Azure, and suddenly all your data is automatically backed up in the cloud. So, whether the information is mislaid by human error, lost through hardware failure, stolen by hackers or wiped by cyber-attack, it can be recovered before any damage is done.
From fire to flood, unforeseen disasters can destroy your essential data. Fabric IT cloud services will enable your business to continue uninterrupted, whatever the cause of an unplanned disruption. Recover critical files and keep downtime to a minimum with live replication of your on-site facilities.
Azure has the power to make all your applications and websites accessible via cloud-based resources, rather than having to rely on a single on-premises server. With no hardware to buy, maintain and update, you only pay for the resources you need. Expand your capacity on demand.
Moving to the cloud means you don’t need to pay for expensive hardware, servers, and on-site solutions. With cloud technology, you only pay for the storage and service you use.
With cloud services and hosting, your data is not only secure, but it’s also protected and mirrored at multiple sites, meaning should the worst happen, your business can continue operating as normal.
With Fabric IT and Microsoft, the cloud is the safest place to store your data. It's backed up to prevent data loss, and continually updates protection from cyber threats.
Adapt to changing business conditions and challenges more quickly than your competitors.
Your people can work from multiple sites, or any connected location in the world, without the need to duplicate hardware.
Scale up or down at will. There's no need to pay for extra hardware, or have surplus capacity "just in case."
Azure displays all the information you need in one place, and data is securely accessible to anyone who needs it.
Focus on building your business, and let the Fabric team looks after your IT.
This is the identity protection and access management tool that safeguards your users from the most significant danger to every business: the ever-present threat of cyber-attacks.
Protect your files and data with multi-factor authentication, while making everything easy for the right people to access. Add advanced settings as required, such as conditional access and impossible travel detection. You can also limit data access to specific locations or individuals.
Harnesses AI and machine learning to proactively identify security hazards, stopping threats before they can become attacks. For example, if a user has always accessed your network from the UK, and they login from another location, Azure Sentinel Intelligence can cross-reference your HR files to identify whether the user is simply on holiday, or whether it is a legitimate security threat.
A fully managed database environment that automatically scales up, updates and backs up, so you can focus on application development.
Control who can enter and leave your IT environment with firewall protection. Lock down ports, products and locations as required.
You and your team can work remotely from anywhere that has an internet connection. Run your desktop from any device with total reliability and security.
This solution is ideal for businesses such as call centres and organisations with a ‘bring your own device’ policy. Remote workers connect to a centrally managed corporate environment that is easy to update. It is entirely secure, too, because your data never leaves the environment. This also reduces costs, as it can be used with your existing Office 365 license.
Azure is an example of a public cloud, owned by a third-party provider — in this case, Microsoft. They make resources such as data storage and applications available to you over the internet. This means you have a secure area for data storage, but without the need for physical servers on your premises. Azure is easy to scale and expand, and everything is paid for on a subscription basis, keeping your costs to a minimum. Most businesses, even with sensitive and confidential information, can use Azure securely.
With private cloud, rather than renting resources as and when you need them, you own a portion of a datacentre. You are then given exclusive access to your data. This is costly but sometimes worthwhile for businesses that require complete control of their data, perhaps for regulatory reasons.
As the name suggests, this is a combination of a private and public cloud. It’s an architecture that connects a company’s on-premises private cloud services to a third-party, public cloud. Hybrid cloud is useful if some of your data is not suitable for the latter.
Sooner or later, any discussion of cloud computing brings up the above acronyms. There are three types of cloud computing, and Azure can be used to deliver all three.