Want to take your data protection business to the next level? Try integrating your offerings with Microsoft Azure. I know what you’re thinking — Microsoft’s public cloud offering has hundreds of associated services and an unfamiliar architecture. And yes, it’s overwhelming to even think about adding these technologies to your business.
However, Redmond Channel Partner reports that the time is ripe to capitalize on growth opportunities with Azure because more and more businesses are understanding its potential and are now ready to deploy infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings.
To help you get started, the magazine has published a report that offers nine suggestions for how managed service providers (MSPs) can build expertise and get up and running with the Azure platform relatively quickly and easily.
For example, one easy way for MSPs to get into the Azure business: Simply work with a backup vendor to begin providing business continuity and disaster recovery to your customers. Many backup vendors are using Azure in some fashion, either as an off-site backup option or as the sole backup location for their service. A partnership of this kind is a great starting place for you to become familiar with the basics of Azure for cloud backup and recovery, business continuity or disaster-recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS).
Azure offers great potential to help you generate recurring revenue streams, capitalize on service opportunities such as business continuity or disaster recovery, and just back up, replicate and recover your customers’ data to and from the Azure cloud.
Want to learn the other eight ways you can get up and running with Azure? Read the Report.
