
Microsoft Azure
Managing your public cloud adoption
Microsoft Azure is the leading public cloud platform. It is ideal for organisations with standard, mass access, non-critical applications requiring flexibility. It provides software, platform and infrastructure ‘as a service’. It is more flexible, scalable and cost-effective than traditional IT models and lets you add capacity or capabilities rapidly without investing in additional physical infrastructure.
What makes Microsoft Azure such an effective service?
- You can deploy anywhere with your choice of tools.
- You can build your apps, your way.
- You can connect on-premises data and apps.
- You can extend the cloud on-premises.
We can support your business through cloud adoption
Our experience suggests it’s not just the functionality of the cloud that will deliver the return on investment and the potential benefits you require. What’s crucial is how the solution is designed and implemented, how migration is managed and how users are supported post set-up.
We are cloud design, connection, migration and management experts
Embracing the cloud can be more challenging than you may first think. You may conclude that you don’t have the time or resources to carry out the migration yourself. In which case working with a partner makes sense.
We can work with you to create a cloud roadmap that will enable you to build and manage an infrastructure that makes your business truly agile. We can help support you in four ways:
- Market leading public cloud provider
- Software, platform and infrastructure ‘As a service’
- Flexible, reliable, scalable, secure
- Pay per use commercial model
- Consider the migrate and manage issues
Design your cloud
We start by understanding your existing IT model and develop a cloud strategy with you.
Issues to discuss
- Which are the right applications to move to the cloud?
- Which cloud is the right one and how much cloud do you really need?
- What are the security, regulatory or compliance issues?
- What should be your diversity/back-up plan?
- How do you plan to secure your cloud?
Connect to your cloud
Your applications now need to be accessed by your users and customers remotely in the cloud.
Issues to discuss
- Internet, dedicated or private cloud provider specific connections?
- How much capacity is needed?
- Will your existing network be enough?
- What is your back-up plan?
- Interoperability plan between on-premise and cloud environments?
Migrate to your cloud
With the correct design, we move onto planning and supporting your migration to the cloud.
Issues to discuss
- Which applications to move first?
- Redesign and optimise before migration?
- Parallel working required?
- Test plan model design?
- Use of migration software?
Manage your cloud
The cloud doesn’t run itself. It still needs to be maintained and enhanced.
Issues to discuss
- How do you want to maintain your cloud?
- How do you plan to manage upgrades/patches/maintenance etc?
- How will you support database migration and then administration?
- How to manage and monitor the new platform and application 24/7?
- Do you have the time, skills and knowledge it to manage it yourself?
Why Acora

Cloud design and management experts

Legacy migration expertise

Dual 24/7 UK-based operations centres

Strong pedigree ( 250+ clients, 200+ employees)
Success Stories

Through Acora we found a partner who could not only design and build our cloud platform in Azure, but also provide ongoing support of our environment. We now have a fully scalable, modern IT platform which enables us to focus on achieving further international expansion.



Mark Hill
Global CIO
Frank Recruitment Group



We had no hesitation in extending our partnership with Acora for a further five years, trusting them to modernise our IT platform by leveraging Microsoft Azure and at the same time ensure the day to day running of our IT operation on a European wide basis.



Shaun Mills
CEO
Alpha Trains Group
Sign up for a Microsoft Azure workshop
Acora can help you create a plan to design, migrate and manage your cloud. Hear from our cloud experts about how Azure can create a flexible, resilient infrastructure that is easy to manage and easy to scale.
Location: Client site or Acora facility
Duration: 3-4 hours (30 min pre-call for client overview)
Agenda:
- Business challenges and opportunities
- Current productivity, collaboration & security models
- Azure transformation targets
- Azure functionality
- Current cost review
FAQs
What is Microsoft Azure?
What are the main business benefits of IT Managed Services?
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities
- Security and compliance at its core
- Enhanced scalability
- Integrates well with Microsoft products and services – Outlook, Office 365 etc
- Analytics and Intelligence capabilities
- Identity & Access Management (IAM)
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Get in touch
The Acora team is ready and waiting to understand your challenges and see how we can help.
Contact details
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