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Microsoft Azure is a growing collection of integrated cloud services that developers and IT professionals use to build, deploy, and manage applications through global network of datacenters, using the tools, applications, and frameworks of your choice.
Raw data in simpler terms is source data that has not been processed for use. Even though such data does have a potential to become “information”, it requires selective extraction, organization and formatting to be presented in a logical way. However, for all this to happen, we must first ensure that this data is safely stored and backed up so that it can be retrieved whenever the need arises.
Disaster Recovery (DR) is the process an organization uses to recover access to their software, data, and/or hardware that are needed to resume the performance of normal, critical business functions after the event of either a natural disaster or a disaster caused by humans.
While Disaster Recovery plans often focus on bridging the gap where data, software, or hardware have been damaged or lost, one cannot forget the vital element of manpower that composes much of any organization.
Over the years we have seen the cloud debate moving from Infrastructure to Services and Applications.
More and more CIO’s and CFO’s have started looking at the cloud as a medium to transform the way existing applications are running and experienced by the user or a way to innovate and support new activities. Today, they are more open to assess the added value of migrating their existing applications to the cloud.
For instance, there are a lot of questions companies need to ask themselves prior to embarking on such a journey. For example
Today, majority of companies have adopted the hybrid cloud model, with the core agenda being security, governance and to keep a tab on the cost.
A lot of companies across the globe use the cloud for: