Executive Considerations for Azure Adoption

Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform, has the potential to help organizations reduce cost and deploy services faster than possible in most on-premises data centers. Azure provides scaling, security, data governance, global reach, and advanced features, such as machine learning, that many organizations struggle to deliver independently. However, not all workloads are suitable for Azure, and developing the skills to deploy and manage Azure services can increase planned cost and decrease expected savings. Migrating to Azure can be a difficult process requiring additional technology, management, and process changes with IT to keep pace with the rapid update cadence of cloud services.

Management and Development Advantages, but Less Control

An attractive part of using Azure services is that Microsoft purchases and manages the underlying hardware, and for platform services they also manage the OSs, storage, and applications. It also includes Microsoft-proprietary and open-source products that customers