A formal disaster recovery strategy is essential for companies to ensure the safety of their data and applications when outages, planned or unplanned, occur. In addition, the vast surge in data has resulted in many companies looking to the cloud as a cost-effective solution to store, manage, and secure data that is generated daily on a global scale.

This is where Microsoft Azure Backup and Site Recovery services play a vital role in helping companies achieve these goals while preventing costly downtime. In addition, the platform is frequently used for secure archiving and disaster recovery.

What is Microsoft Azure?

The Microsoft Azure cloud platform is a collection of more than 200 products and cloud services, including analytics, storage, and networking, that assist businesses in building and managing applications across multiple clouds or on-site. Users can choose which of these services they need to develop and scale new applications or to run existing applications in the public cloud and only pay for what they use on a subscription-based model.

Microsoft Azure for Disaster Recovery and Backup

While Azure offers many different products and services under its various categories, it can also be used as an economical alternative to private data centres. This reduces companies’ reliance on local servers and storage as Microsoft Azure has a presence in over 60 regions worldwide, in 140 countries.

Privacy and Security with Azure

Increasing regulatory compliance requirements are no longer an issue for cloud subscribers to Azure. Microsoft has addressed these concerns by creating an online trust Centre and will only use customer data where agreed to and never disclose customer data to government agencies unless compelled by law.

Azure Solutions for all Industries

Microsoft Azure provides opportunities for all types of businesses to overcome industry-specific challenges through its proven groupings of products and services.

Outsourced IT Services and Azure

Microsoft Certified IT partners not only utilise Azure to manage their clients’ existing solutions but also to offer new customised solutions.

Westech is a highly experienced IT company in South Africa that has been operating since 1994. As a certified Microsoft partner, Westech assists companies in taking advantage of Azure to meet their strategic IT goals.

By outsourcing your IT to Westech will deliver many benefits to help your business increase productivity, cut costs, and access the latest technology – all delivered by a highly knowledgeable and professional IT team.

Westech has a national footprint of IT companies in South Africa. Contact one of Westech’s regional IT offices for further information or assistance:

• Westech IT company in Johannesburg
• Westech IT company in Pretoria
• Westech IT company in Midrand
• Westech IT company in Cape Town
• Westech IT company in Durban