Azure

With our Azure managed service packs, we provide for the monitoring, administration, maintenance and security of your Azure cloud services. We focus on your cloud services so that you can focus on your business.

We have more than 60 local cloud experts on board and we have a large number of Azure certificates. We also have a great deal of hands-on experience with migrations and establishing and managing Azure environments.

With the Azure expertise we have in house, we can offer you high quality local support 24/7. When faced with a challenge or a problem, you can contact one of our experts in your mother tongue.

Azure offers a large number of tools to protect your cloud environment optimally. In addition to that, we also have an ISO 27001 certificate for data protection. Thus we ensure maximum customised security.

An important added value is that we design our own innovative managed services and that our DevOps specialists advise you on relevant developments for your applications.

As part of the Cronos Groep, we have partners who can collaborate with us on any IT domain (for example ERP, CRM, AI, machine learning, IoT, etc.) and can link up with Azure.

We have a transparent cloud management portal. This allows you to look in detail at how your cloud environment is managed and gives you an insight into the evolution of your consumption and the associated costs.

We send you a single invoice that includes all your Azure costs. That gives you a clear overview of exactly how and where your budget is spent in the cloud.

Azure offers a complete range of Infrastructure-as a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a Service (PaaS) capabilities. With IaaS, you can run your entire infrastructure on Azure and only pay for what you use. PaaS services allow you to create your own cloud apps easily and quickly without having to manage the underlying layers.

Azure also has capabilities to design hybrid clouds that are unique. Azure Arc provides you with a reliable tool to manage your entire environment (on the premises, in other clouds and the public Azure cloud). Azure also offers a wider range of hybrid connections, such as virtual private networks (VPNs), caches, content delivery networks (CDNs) and ExpressRoute connections.

Microsoft Azure is a very efficient platform and offers a great deal of flexibility and scalability. Applications, infrastructure, storage, etc. can be scaled easily, quickly and in a user-friendly way from 10 to 10 million users. The platform ensures that you always have a customised solution.

Microsoft Azure is hosted in Microsoft data centres. They are spread over various regions. There are always two or more data centres for each region. This guarantees you maximum availability of your applications and data. At the same time, you have a solution for business continuity and disaster recovery.

Azure is designed based on the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) process. This means that attention is paid to security from the drawing board for each service or component and that this security is implemented at the core of the application. Microsoft therefore guarantees the best in terms of security for all operations and data within the Azure Cloud.

Microsoft Azure was also the first cloud platform to embrace the international ISO 27018 standard for cloud privacy. In addition, Microsoft does not move any data outside the chosen region. As a customer, you can determine very specifically where – in which region – Microsoft should store any type of data. So you are also safe in terms of GDPR.

Azure offers you built-in support to delve deeper into the data and to discover important insights for improving business processes and decision-making. Among other things, Azure offers possibilities for Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS), machine learning, bots and cognitive APIs.

Microsoft invests heavily in Microsoft Azure. Not only in keeping the platform performing, but primarily in constant innovation and improvement. The amount of new services and components and the pace at which they are launched is noticeably higher than with the competition.

Microsoft has a 'pay per use' approach for Azure. Specifically, this means that only your real consumption is charged per minute. If, for example, you choose to reduce your number of servers halfway through a month, then at the end of that month you also effectively pay a lower price.

Microsoft uses familiar tools, such as Visual Studio, ASP.NET and familiar programming languages to develop cloud-native applications. That makes it easier for developers to develop cloud-based applications rapidly.