{"id":11543,"date":"2014-10-03T13:33:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T13:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.greenpages.com\/?p=4249"},"modified":"2014-10-03T13:33:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T13:33:18","slug":"microsoft-azure-its-more-than-just-portability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/microsoft-azure-its-more-than-just-portability\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Azure \u2013 It\u2019s More Than Just Portability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When people discuss Microsoft Azure, they often think about portability to the <a title=\"public cloud\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpages.com\/core-expertise\/hybrid-cloud-computing\/public-cloud\" >cloud<\/a>. One of the misnomers of the Azure\u00a0cloud is that you&#8217;re just taking your on-prem virtual machines and moving them to the cloud when, in reality, <a title=\"Azure\" href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/\" >Azure<\/a> is much more than that. It is about VM portability, but it is also running different platforms in the cloud. It&#8217;s using instances which allows users to move, say, a web server to an instance in the Azure cloud so they don&#8217;t have to worry about the patching and management of that server from month to month. Instead, the user knows that it&#8217;s already taken care of for you. Other benefits include uptime SLAs and back up solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below with DJ Ferrara to learn more about the benefits Microsoft Azure has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Microsoft Azure &#8211; What are the benefits?<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yfsobUCjff0&#038;fmt=18\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yfsobUCjff0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts on Microsoft Azure? Has your organization utilized the platform? Any plans to use Azure in the future? Why or why not?<\/p>\n<p>To hear more from DJ, watch his video blog discussing the pros and cons of different <a title=\"Azure\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.greenpages.com\/cloud-computing\/comparing-clouds-makes-sense-use\/\" >public cloud platforms<\/a> and when it makes sense to use each. If you&#8217;d like to speak with DJ more about the Azure cloud, email us at <a href=\"mailto:socialmedia@greenpages.com\">socialmedia@greenpages.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Video with DJ Ferrara, Vice President &amp; Enterprise Architect<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/JourneyToTheCloud?a=qj8QJWMtIz8:zI7PZWjG2mE:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/JourneyToTheCloud?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/JourneyToTheCloud?a=qj8QJWMtIz8:zI7PZWjG2mE:-BTjWOF_DHI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/JourneyToTheCloud?i=qj8QJWMtIz8:zI7PZWjG2mE:-BTjWOF_DHI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/JourneyToTheCloud?a=qj8QJWMtIz8:zI7PZWjG2mE:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/JourneyToTheCloud?i=qj8QJWMtIz8:zI7PZWjG2mE:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/JourneyToTheCloud?a=qj8QJWMtIz8:zI7PZWjG2mE:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/JourneyToTheCloud?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/JourneyToTheCloud\/~4\/qj8QJWMtIz8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people discuss Microsoft Azure, they often think about portability to the cloud. One of the misnomers of the Azure&nbsp;cloud is that you&rsquo;re just taking your on-prem virtual machines and moving them to the cloud when, in reality, Azure is much more than that. It is about VM portability, but it is also running different&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.greenpages.com\/cloud-computing\/microsoft-azure-just-portability\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[803,104,179,524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-azure","category-cloud-computing","category-featured","category-public-cloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}