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It’s Azure vs AWS!! Read this blog to know the major differences between Azure & AWS.

What is Azure?

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centres. Founded in 2010, it can be operated on both Linux and Microsoft. Azure is a uniquely powerful offering because of its builder, Microsoft.

Azure offers Platform as a Service (PaaS) and an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

What is AWS?

AWS is a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing services and APIs to individuals, companies and government on a metered pay-as-you-go basis. Founded in 2006, Aws runs on Amazon Linux, which is a modified Linux operating system developed for their own use. The vast toolset of AWS is growing at an exponential rate. It’s been in the cloud computing market for more than 10 years, which means that AWS is the frontrunner and has been for some time.

AWS offering services are categorised as Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Software as a Service (Saas).

Features and Services

1.    Computing Power

• AWS EC2 users can configure their own virtual machines (VMs), choose pre-configured machine images (MIs), or customize MIs. Users have the freedom to choose the size, power, memory capacity, and number of VMs they wish to use. 
• Azure users, on the other hand, chose a virtual hard disk (VHD) to create a VM. This can be pre-configured by Microsoft, the user, or a separate third party. It relies on virtual scale sets for scalability purposes. 

2. Storage

• AWS’s storage relies on machine instances, which are virtual machines hosted on AWS infrastructure. Temporary storage is allocated once per instance and destroyed when an instance is terminated. You can also get block storage attached to an instance, similar to a hard drive. AWS’s cloud object storage solution offers high availability and automatic replication across regions.
• Azure offers temporary storage through D drive and block storage through Page Blobs for VMs, with Block Blobs and Files doubling as object storage. It supports relational databases, Big Data, and NoSQL through Azure Table and HDInsight. There are two classes of storage offered by Azure -Hot and Cool. Cool storage is comparatively less pricey than Hot, but one has to incur additional read and write costs.

3. Databases

AWS works perfectly with NoSQL and relational databases providing a mature cloud environment for big data. AWS’ core analytics offering EMR helps set up an EC2 cluster and provides integration with various AWS services. Amazon’s relational database service (RDS) supports six popular database engines: 

1. Amazon Aurora
2. MariaDB
3. Microsoft SQL
4. MySQL
5. Oracle
6. PostgreSQL

Azure’s SQL database, on the other hand, is based solely on Microsoft SQL.  Azure supports both NoSQL and relational databases and as well Big Data through Azure HDInsight and Azure table. Azure provides analytical products through its exclusive Cortana Intelligence Suite that comes with Hadoop, Spark, Storm, and HBase. 

4.  Network and Content Delivery

• AWS uses a virtual private cloud (VPC) so that users can create isolated private networks within the cloud. From there, it uses API gateways for cross-premises connectivity. To ensure smooth operation, it uses elastic load balancing during networking. A user can create route tables, private IP address ranges, subnets, and network gateways within a VPC. 
• Instead of a VPC, Azure uses a Virtual Network (VNET) that grants users the ability to create isolated networks, as well as subnets, private IP ranges, route tables, and network gateways. 
• Both AWS and Azure offer firewall options and solutions to extend your on-premises data centre into the cloud without compromising your data. 

5.  Pricing

• AWS provides a pay-as-you-go model and charges per hour. AWS can help you save more with increased usage- the more you use, the less you pay. AWS instances can be purchased based on one of the following models –
• Reserved Instances – Paying an upfront cost based on the use, one can reserve an instance for 1 to 3 years.
• On-demand Instances -Just pay for what you use without paying any upfront cost.
• Spot Instances- Bid for extra capacity based on availability.
• Azure charges per minute, offering a more exact pricing model than AWS. It also offers short-term commitments allowing you to choose between monthly or pre-paid charges

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The Amazon FSx has a very efficient way of deploying and running traditional file servers in the cloud that is completely administered by AWS. You can use the wide feature sets & fast performance of popular open-source & commercially licensed file systems with a hassle-free experience, i.e., remove the headaches of hardware provisioning, software configuration, patching, and backups.

You can choose out of the 2 file systems:

• Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is a fully managed file server accessible over the SMB protocol. It is deployed on a Windows server managed by AWS and have features like data deduplication, end-user file restore, and Microsoft Active Directory integration, scheduled backups, and data encryption. You can use this to migrate your file servers to cloud and it can be used as a file share for applications.
• Amazon FSx for Lustre Amazon FSx for Lustre is also a fully managed service for workloads that require high performance such as machine learning, high-performance computing (HPC), video rendering, and financial simulations. Powered by Lustre, the world’s most popular high-performance file system, FSx for Lustre offers shared storage with low latencies, up to hundreds of gigabytes per second of throughput, and millions of IOPS.

Features

Economical

You get the option of spinning file systems up or down on-demand. It provides an extensive amount of Solid-State Disk (SSD) & Hard Disk Drive (HDD) data storage facilities that allow you to choose the best plan according to your storage & price specifications.

The FSx for Windows File Server provides data deduplication, hence enabling cost efficiency by eliminating all the residual data. The FSx for Lustre allows you to select non-replicated, scratch file systems to promote cost-cutting for the temporary processing of data.

Efficient performance

Even the most graphic-intense enterprise applications & high-performance workloads are supported by the FSx, as it was designed to deliver quick & expected results with measurable & consonant performance.

High read and write speeds with consistent low latency data access are delivered by the Amazon FSx.

Just select the type of storage & throughput level according to your application’s requirements. There is also a provision for increasing the storage capacity at any given time, in accordance with your dynamic business requirements.

Available & Scalable

Operates the same as any other AWS, & it offers several options for deployment in accordance with your work’s requirements. With FSx for Windows File Server, you get the option of choosing either single-AZ or multi-AZ deployment types, which depends on the needs of your application. With FSx for Lustre, you get to select from scratch or persistent storage for temporary or permanent data processing.

Simple & fully managed

It can be opened with a few clicks, in which there is no hassle in managing file servers & storage volumes, updating hardware, configuring software, monitoring storage consumption, or performing backups – with Amazon FSx all these processes become automatic.

Safe & accommodating

Encryption of your data at rest & in transit is done automatically by the Amazon FSx. For overseeing the network access to your file system, Amazon FSx allows you to operate your file systems via an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). The Amazon FSx is the culmination of a carefully planned file system having the highest security standards that comply with ISO, PCI-DSS, and SOC certifications, & is HIPAA eligible. Additionally, the integration with AWS Backup allows you to meet your data protection specifications that are secured with compliance management & centralized backup for your Amazon FSx file systems.

Integrated with AWS services

Several AWS services can be integrated with the Amazon FSx file systems, like- Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon CloudTrail, AWS KMS, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon AppStream 2.0, Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), AWS Batch, and AWS ParallelCluster.

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What is CI CD?

Continuous Integration

Developers work on the code which is stored in a code repository.  Code repository can be GitHub, AWS CodeCommit etc. As developers keep making changes to the code and push to the code repository, a build server builds the code and runs the tests. Build Server can be AWS CodeBuild, Jenkins etc.

This process is called continuous integration. Developers focus on developing code and not building and running tests. It helps to identify and fix bugs faster and have code available for frequent releases.

Continuous Delivery and Deployment

With Continuous integration, you have automated the code build and testing. The next step is to deploy the code. For this, you can use a deployment server which can be AWS CodeDeploy, Jenkins etc. The deployment server will take the code from the build server and push the code to the test/prod environment.

With Continuous delivery, you will have a manual step to approve the deployment. The deployment will be automated and repeatable. With Continuous deployment, no manual steps are required, and deployment will be fully automated.

In practical scenarios, continuous deployment can be used to push the deployment to test & UAT servers while manual approval can be used for production deployment.

Also Read:- Breakout Rooms and Its Usage – Microsoft Teams

AWS Technology Stack for CI CD

Code Commit can be used as a private code repository for version control for collaboration, backup and audit. It includes all the benefits of AWS i.e., Scale, Security, Compliance and integration with other services including AWS Code Build, Jenkins etc. You can use GIT to integrate your local repository with the Code Commit repository. You can configure role-based access, notifications and triggers. For e.g. You can configure a trigger to execute a lambda function for automation.

Code Build A fully managed build service can be an alternative to tools like Jenkins. It has all the benefits of a managed service i.e., scale, security and no maintenance overhead and power of integration with services like Cloud Watch for notifications & alerts and Lambda for automation. It uses Docker containers under the hood (you can use your own docker image as well), is serverless and pure Pay as You Go (PAYG).

Code Deploy managed service by AWS is to deploy code on EC2 instances or on-premises machines. Code deploy can be used instead of tools like terraform, ansible etc. if it meets your requirement of continuous deployment. You can group the environment such as prod, dev etc. Code deploy will not provide resources for you. Code deploy agent will be running on the server/EC2 instance and will perform the deployment.

Code Pipeline to orchestrate the whole deployment. It supports code repositories such as GitHub, Code Commit, build tools such as Code Build, Jenkins, deployment tools such as Code Deploy, Terraform, and load testing tools. It creates artefacts for each stage.

All these services can easily use powerful management and monitoring tools like CloudWatch for logging and monitoring.

Azure Firewall is a managed, cloud-based network security service that protects your Azure virtual network resources.

You can centrally create, enforce the network connectivity policies across subscriptions and virtual networks.

Firewall features

Built-in high availability: No additional load balancers are required because High availability is built-in so, you don’t need to configure anything.

Availability Zone:  Azure firewall can be configured during deployment to span multiple Availability Zones to increase the availability, availability Zones increases the availability up to 99.99% uptime.

There is no additional cost for a firewall deployed in the availability Zone, However, there are additional costs for inbound and outbound data transfer associated with availability Zones.

Unrestricted  Cloud Scalability:  Azure Firewall can scale up as much as you need to accommodate changing network traffic flows, so you don’t need to budget for your peak traffic.

Application FQDN  filtering rules:  you can limit outbound HTTP and HTTPS traffic or Azure  SQL traffic to a specified list of fully qualified Domain names (FQDN) including wild cards. This feature doesn’t require TLS terminations

Network traffic filtering rules: you can centrally create allow or deny network filtering rules by source and destination IP address, port, and protocol. The Azure Firewall is fully stateful, so it can distinguish legitimate packets for different types of connections.  Rules are enforced and logged across multiple subscriptions and virtual networks.

FQDN tags: make it easy for you to allow well–known Azure Service network traffic through your firewall. For example, say you want to allow windows to update the network through your firewall. You create an application rule and include the windows update tag. Now network traffic from windows update can flow through your firewall.

Service tags:  A service tag represents a group of IP address prefixes to help minimize complexity for security rule creation. You can’t create your own service tag, nor specify which IP address is included within a tag. Microsoft manages the address prefixes encompassed by the service tag, and automatically updates the service tag as addresses change.

Threat intelligence:  Threat intelligence-based filtering can be enabled for your firewall to alert and deny traffic from/known malicious IP addresses and domains. The IP Addresses and Domains are sourced from the Microsoft Threats intelligence feed.

Outbound SNAT support: All outbound virtual network traffic IP addresses are translated to the azure Firewall public IP (Source Network address translation). You can identify and allow traffic originating from your virtual network to remote internet destinations. Azure Firewalls doesn’t SNAT when the destination IP is a private IP range per IANA-RFC-1918. If your organization uses a public IP  address range of private network, Azure Firewall will SNAT  the traffic to one of the firewall private IP  addresses in AzureFirewallSubnet. You can configure Azure Firewall to not SNAT your public IP address range.

Inbound DNAT Support: Inbound internet network traffic to your firewall public IP address is translated (Destination Network address translation) and filtered to the private IP addresses on your virtual networks.

Multiple Public IP addresses:  You can associate multiple public Ip addresses (up to 250) with your firewall.

This enables the following scenarios:

DNAT – you can translate multiple standard port instances to your backend servers. For example, if you have two public IP addresses, you can translate TCP Port 3389 (RDP) for both IP Addresses

SNAT- Additional Ports are Available for outbound SNAT connections, reducing the potentials for SNAT port exhaustion. At this time, Azure Firewall randomly selects the source Public IP address associated with your firewall. Consider using a public IP address prefix.

Azure Monitor logging:  All events are integrated with Azure Monitor, allowing you to archive logs to a storage account, stream, events to your event hub, or send them to Azure Monitor logs.

Forced Tunnelling: you can Configure  Azure Firewall to route all internet–bound traffic to a designated next hop instead of going directly to the internet.

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The AWS Directory Service provides several ways to use the Microsoft Active Directory (AD) with other AWS utilities. Information regarding users, groups, & devices can be stored in directories, & the administrators use them to retrieve the information & resources. AWS Directory Service offers many directory alternatives for clients who wish to utilize the current Microsoft AD or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)–aware applications in the cloud. There is also a provision of the same alternatives to developers who seek a directory to manage users, groups, devices, & access.

What to select?

I want Active Directory (AD) or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for applications in my cloud: Choose AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory

I develop SaaS applications: The developers of upscale SaaS applications can use Amazon Cognito.

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft AD

Also known by the name AWS managed Microsoft AD, the AWS Directory Service for Microsoft AD is backed by a verified Microsoft Windows Server AD, overseen by AWS in the AWS Cloud. AWS managed AD permits a wide range of AD–aware applications to be migrated to the AWS Cloud. 

The AWS Managed Microsoft AD can be used with Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft SQL Server, & several .NET applications. It is also compatible with AWS managed services such as Amazon WorkDocs, Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon Connect, Amazon QuickSight, Amazon Chime, & Amazon Relational Database Service for Microsoft SQL Server (Amazon RDS for SQL Server, Amazon RDS for Oracle, & Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL).

AWS Managed Microsoft AD is present in 2 editions: Standard & Enterprise.

Standard Edition: AWS Managed Microsoft AD (Standard Edition) has been optimized to be a central directory for small-scale & midsize businesses with as many as 5,000 employees. Enough storage capacity is allotted to support up to 30,000 directory objects, like computers, users & groups.

Enterprise Edition: AWS Managed Microsoft AD (Enterprise Edition) has been created to back firms with up to 500,000* directory objects.

Security in AWS Directory Service

Cloud security at AWS is of the utmost priority. As a customer of AWS, you can avail several benefits from a data centre & network architecture that has been modelled to match the needs of organizations, for whom top-notch security of their data is a priority.

You and the AWS have to share the charge of security. This is described under the shared responsibility model as ‘the security of the cloud & security in the cloud’:

Security of the cloud – AWS is in charge of handling & protecting the fundamentals that run AWS services in the AWS Cloud. AWS also gives you services that are absolutely safe. Third-party auditors are regulated to continuously evaluate the level of our security as a part of the AWS compliance program.

Security in the cloud – The AWS service you use is your responsibility. The sensitivity of your data, your company’s needs, & applicable laws & regulations are also in your own hands.

Infrastructure Security in AWS Directory Service

Since it is a managed service, the AWS Directory Service is protected by the AWS global network security protocols.

Identity & Access Management for AWS Directory Service

Credentials are required to get access to the AWS Directory Service, which the AWS can use to authenticate your requests. Those credentials should have valid permission to gain access to the AWS resources, like an AWS Directory Service directory.

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Deploying applications to end-user Windows machines has never been easier if you are a Microsoft Intune administrator. Earlier what used to be a painstaking process of installing each application and its required dependencies one by one, has evolved into a professional solution where you can package all the applications along with their required dependencies into one complete “.intunewin” package for a simplified solution.

The concept of modern management or modern device management takes this a step further by providing IT administrators an even simpler way of installing, managing, updating & uninstalling applications using package managers.

Linux adopted early the practice of maintaining a centralized location where users could find and install the software.

What is a “Package Manager”?

A package manager or package management system is a collection of software tools that automates the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing computer programs for a computer’s operating system in a consistent manner. It keeps track of what software is installed on the computer and allows us to easily install new software, upgrade the software to newer versions, or remove software that was previously installed.

As the name suggests, package managers deal with packages: collections of files that are bundled together and can be installed and removed as a group. Often, a package is just a particular program. A software package is an archive file containing a computer program as well as necessary metadata for its deployment. The computer program can be in source code that has to be compiled and built first. Package metadata includes package description, package version, and dependencies (other packages that need to be installed beforehand).

Package managers are charged with the task of finding, installing, maintaining, or uninstalling software packages upon the user’s command. Typical functions of a package management system include:

• Working with file archivers to extract package archives
• Ensuring the integrity of the package by verifying their checksums and digital certificates, respectively
• Looking up, downloading, installing, or updating existing software from a software repository or app store
• Grouping packages by function to reduce user confusion
• Managing dependencies to ensure a package is installed with all packages required

Package Managers differ based on the packaging system as well as the operating systems for which they are used. For example, RPM-based Linux, Yum, and DNF are package managers. For DEB-based Linux, we have apt-get, aptitude command line-based package managers. For Windows, the two most used package managers are Winget & Chocolatey. Over the next couple of weeks, I am going to do a deep dive on how to leverage these platforms along with Microsoft Intune to make applications management easier.

In this part 1 of the 4-part series, we will investigate Chocolatey and what it does. In the next installment, I will walk you through steps to get it set up in your organization using Microsoft Intune and how you can use this to manage application installment & management. In parts 3 & 4 we will look into how the same can be achieved via Winget.

Chocolatey

Chocolatey is a machine-level, command-line package manager and installer for Windows software. It uses the NuGet packaging infrastructure and Windows PowerShell to simplify the process of downloading and installing software.

Some well known features of chocolatey:

• Deploy Anywhere: chocolatey supports all Windows versions after Windows 7. It requires PowerShell v2+ and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.x. You can deploy on-prem, to Azure, AWS, or any cloud provider you might be looking at
• Deploy with Everything. Anything that can manage endpoints or do remote deployments can either direct Chocolatey through commands, batches, or scripts. Full configuration management solutions like Ansible, Chef, PowerShell DSC, Puppet or Salt typically have providers/modules that allow you to work within their languages to manage both Chocolatey installation/configuration and software
• Packages are Independent and Portable. When you deploy through multiple systems or want to migrate from one to another, you can take the work you have done with Chocolatey with you. How is that for some major time-savings
• Completely Offline and Secure. You can step up your own local repositories and start using them without the need for an internet connection
• Create Your Own Deployment Packages and use them internally
• Manage Dependencies With Ease. You can build specific installation paths for your applications

One of the most time-consuming tasks with Microsoft Intune is the application portion, where you package applications up to deploy. Currently, if the application is bundled as an executable (exe), the steps are as follows:

• Grab the installation executable
• Find the install switches – most common one is the silent switch
• Find the install directory or registry key to tell Microsoft Intune if it installed correctly or not
• Find the uninstall executable and any switches it has as well
• Wrap the executable in an ‘INTUNEWIN’ format
• Import file into Microsoft Intune
• Configure the application with the install and uninstall switches as well as the directory it creates to Microsoft Intune knows if it installed correctly or not

With Chocolatey, the process gets reduced and we only need to do the following:

• Find any install switches
• Grab the installation executable
• Find the uninstall process and switches
• Configure the application with any install switches, or uninstall switches within the Intune blade

Stay tuned for part 2, where we install Chocolatey as a Win32 app using Microsoft Intune and install subsequent software.

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In this blog I will be talking about the Top 10 elements of Cloud.

Virtual Network: Create a logically isolated section in Microsoft Azure and securely connect it outward.

VM: Windows Azure Virtual Machines is a scalable, on-demand IaaS platform you can use to quickly provision and deploy server workloads into the cloud. Once deployed, you can then configure, manage, and monitor those virtual machines, load-balance traffic between them.

Azure Storage: Microsoft Azure Storage is a Microsoft-managed cloud service that provides storage that is highly available, secure, durable, scalable, and redundant.

Load Balancer: A load balancer that distributes incoming traffic among backend virtual machine instances.

Azure Traffic Manager: Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager allows you to control the distribution of user traffic for service endpoints in the different datacentre.

Application Gateway: Scalable layer-7 load balancer offering various traffic routing rules and SSL termination for the backend.

Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR): BCDR plan is a plan to keep your data safe, and apps/workloads running when planned and unplanned outages occur.

Azure Active Directory:  (Azure AD) is Microsoft’s Cloud-Based identity and access management service, which helps your employees sign in and access.

Azure Backup: Simple and reliable server backup to the cloud.

Reliable off site data

a) Convenient offsite protection
b) Safe data
c) Encrypted backups

A simple and integrated solution

a) Familiar interface
b) Windows Azure integration

Efficient backup and recovery

a) Efficient use of bandwidth and storage
b) Flexible configuration
c) Flexibility in recovery
d) Cost-effective and metered by usage

Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a distributed computing model designed for developers to stream high-bandwidth files faster, efficiently, and reliably to worldwide customers. Azure CDN is typically used for delivering static content such as Images, Videos, Style sheets, documents, files, Client-side scripts, and HTML pages to customers using servers that are closest to users.

 App Service Plan: App Service plans to represent the collection of physical resources used to host your apps.

Azure Web Apps: Azure Web Apps enables you to build and host web applications in the programming language of your choice without managing infrastructure.

Azure SQL: A relational database-as-a-service, fully managed by Microsoft. Delivers predictable performance, elastic scale, business continuity, and programmatic functionality. For cloud-designed apps when near-zero administration and enterprise-grade capabilities are key.

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AWS CodePipeline is an Amazon Web Services tool that automates the app deployment process, enabling the developer to easily create, design, and execute software for new functionality and upgrades. The approach is known as continuous distribution.

AWS CodePipeline dynamically builds, checks, and launches the program any time the specification is changed; the developer uses a virtual user interface to model workflow settings for the release phase in the pipeline. AWS CodePipeline incorporates a range of Amazon services. It also facilitates tailored programs and activities via the AWS command-line interface.

The development team could define and execute actions, or a set of actions called a level. The developer should decide which CodePipeline testing should run and the pre-production environments it will run. The software will then run these activities into a concurrent execution cycle, in which several processors perform computational functions concurrently to optimize workflows. It takes source code from Amazon Simple Storage Service and deploys it on both AWS CodeDeploy and AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Developers can also add AWS Lambda functions or third-party DevOps platforms, such as GitHub or Jenkins.

All custom acts include creating, deploying, checking, and invoking, which promote special release processes. The developer will set up a worker to test the CodePipeline for job demands, then execute the task and return the status response.

The administrator gives access to AWS CodePipeline by AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). IAM Roles Monitor which end-users may make improvements or changes to the release process of the program.

Cloud computing provides users with access to files, applications, data, and services from their Internet-connected devices, such as smartphones, laptops, and computers. Cloud computing also allows data collection and storing in a role that is independent of end-users. How Cloud Computing Can Boost Your Enterprise? This method is intended to allow companies of any size to make use of advanced software and information technology infrastructure to become more predominant and versatile, as well as to compete with much larger companies. Cloud computing, unlike traditional software and hardware, encourages companies to remain at the forefront of new tech without the need to make major investments in making purchases. In general, cloud computing requires being able to view and store services and data over the Internet rather than over hard drives.

Realizing the many benefits cloud computing provides to organizations and enterprises, we may make a strong argument that cloud infrastructure is also becoming a modern trend. Cloud infrastructure allows the world to address potential issues such as the management of big data, quality control, and cybersecurity. (Read:- How moving to the cloud reduces your impact on the environment?)

We at Mismo Systems have laid down a few important benefits of cloud computing that would help your business in increasing productivity!

Budget-friendly operations

You do not have to pay a penny on data upkeep, fuel costs, updates, or app licenses. This influence is the primary explanation of why a significant proportion of start-ups and small businesses use cloud computing to lower their costs.

24/7 Data Backup

If you want to secure your data and you do not have access to stable infrastructure, you need to implement a cloud storage backup plan.

If you want to keep your backup records on-site or want to access your finances from anywhere at any moment, cloud storage is the perfect way to protect your data.

In emergency conditions or system faults, such as flooding or burning, the data will never be destroyed as cloud storage immediately saves the data to their secure database servers. Or, if unexpected situations arise, you can quickly back up the data in minutes. In addition, it provides geo-redundancy measures in order to protect the data in a variety of centres in different locations.

Magnified Teamwork

Cloud technology helps enhance collaboration by helping different groups of people to compile a report remotely and effectively in real-time and via shared storage. This effect can reduce the amount of time on the market and enhance services and customer development.

In addition, you can save a huge amount of cash that you have to waste on upgrading the devices. By funding cloud computing providers with a low monthly charge, you can perform your company transactions effectively. It would also enable you to reduce your expenses by eliminating new users by using more restricted storage capacity to help decrease your running costs.

Improved Actions

You will be able to manage the business processes on a timely basis by running cloud computing programs. This feature will not only alert you as to what is latest, but it will also help you save a substantial amount of time. As a result, you can spend your precious time improving your efficiency.

With a variety of servers, cloud infrastructure allows customers to run their enterprises without any issues. We all recognize that individuals who are important members of the team will be able to access cloud services from different areas of the world in minutes.

Amplified Output

We also understand that we require balanced capital to increase productivity. Since cloud storage firms would work together better by storing information and records on the cloud, the productivity of each team member will gradually increase. This influence is the reason why companies carry out all their cloud-based initiatives to offer connectivity to those who are core components of their ventures.

You may change access conditions, and you can easily delete any limitations if any team members have permission to work on the project from other areas. Therefore, if you are still looking for something that can improve performance and competitiveness, then you need to choose this modern method.

Visio Tabs in Microsoft Teams allows team members in a dedicated space to access resources and information in a channel or chat. This helps the team to deal with resources and data directly and to have discussions about the tools and data within the structure of this forum or conversation.

Owners and members of the team can add additional tabs to a channel or chat by clicking Add a tab on top of the page (channel or chat).

You can use one click to create a tab of a Visio file in teams, as seen below. Either you can add an existing file to Teams, or you can create a new file from within Teams.

Visio Tabs in Microsoft Teams will assist you in a range of businesses-wide positions. Here are just a few cases for the business to ignite creativity –

Improving efficiency when you co-author a diagram in real-time — Multiple contributors normally generate design diagrams (for example, an architect for companies, a database architect and an architect for software are collaborating together to create an architectural model for a new module). You can ensure that coauthors can easily view the diagram and edit it as and where necessary by scanning the file by pinning the diagram in the tab. (Know more about our Workplace Managed Services)

Maintain critical procedures — companies also have systems to be successfully managed. For example, client representatives may take concrete measures to answer consumer issues in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). If these company procedures are registered in a Visio folder, they can be applied to the workers as a team source to connect on nearly any platform at any time. Diagrams can be modified on a Visio Plan 1 or Plan 2 license in real-time as well, with updates available automatically to others.

Get up to speed quickly — A team member who did not originally draw up a diagram also needs a clearer grasp of the diagram such that an idea is communicated to other teams. An Azure consultant, for example, would compare azure with a client’s architecture. You can easily access, evaluate, apply comments to the diagram, and analyse it in detail in order to collect information, by turning the diagram into a Tab in Teams.

Simplify the discussion and revision phase — Industry experts from a wide range of industries timely think on business diagrams like Venn diagrams, pyramid diagrams, etc. Typically, these diagrams require several iterations, considering various stakeholder feedback. You can conveniently view the diagram(s) quickly and efficiently by creating a tab in an important Team Channel or conversation. by supplying all stakeholders.

All team members are supported with the inclusion of a team tab, but editing is open only to those who have a subscription to Visio Plan 1 or Plan 2. Compare plans here.