Benefits
Service providers offer a number of different cloud services from their datacenters. To illustrate different services that may be of benefit to you, four examples are provided below.
Get the scalability your website requires and the tools to make it easy
From development to one-click deployment, a service provider hosted website as a service delivers a number of benefits:
- Optimize scalability and performance by scaling up or out with the simple slide of a toolbar
- Move websites from a shared to a reserved environment with the click of a button
- Easily extend website access to popular mobile devices
- Enhance results with built-in search engine optimization
Run your mission critical business apps on Windows Server in the cloud
By running your important applications (such as accounting and email) on Windows Server in the cloud, you can take advantage of the benefits from moving to the cloud:
- Business flexibility to easily add new apps
- Instantly scale up or down to meet the demands of your apps
- Self-service management for better control of your apps
- Security of automatic patches and updates so your apps are always up-to-date
Access your desktop and critical business apps from any device
Managing and supporting your employee desktops and apps can be a great expense of time, resources, and money. Moving your desktop to the cloud can deliver the following benefits:
- Access desktops from anywhere on any device
- Extended access to critical business apps
- Enhanced business continuity and security
Extend the life of your critical apps and reduce cost of management
Moving your business apps to a hosted environment can deliver the following benefits:
- Extend the life of your existing apps without re-writing the application
- Reduce management, training, and support issues
- Eliminate operating system compatibility issues
- Provide anywhere access on any device
To learn more about the different types of services available, visit the Microsoft Pinpoint site to find a service provider that fits your IT needs in the cloud.