Microsoft Azure Cloud Solutions

Microsoft Azure has emerged as a leading choice among organizations worldwide for cloud services. Azure offers a robust and adaptable cloud platform, with unparalleled security and compliance features. It enables rapid app development, deployment, and management, eliminating the need for extensive infrastructure investment and maintenance.

Azure's integrated cloud resources are designed to meet stringent security and compliance requirements while remaining highly customizable to suit a company's specific needs. As a result, Azure is the preferred solution for businesses aiming to grow and stay competitive in today's dynamic landscape.

Benefits of Microsoft Azure

  • Security and Compliance.

    • Azure offers a range of security services, including Azure Active Directory, Azure Key Vault, and Azure Information Protection, all of which play a crucial role in safeguarding an organization's data, applications, and compliance.

  • Cost Savings.

    • Azure also provides organizations with the flexibility to pay only for the resources they use, leading to cost reduction and increased operational efficiency.

  • Scalability and Flexibility.

    • Azure enables organizations to scale their resources up or down as required, ensuring cost optimization and resource availability to meet varying demands.

  • Azure BCDR - Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.

    • Azure Site Recovery service plays a crucial role in your BCDR strategy by orchestrating the replication of on-premises physical servers and virtual machines to the cloud (Azure) or to a secondary site. Azure's Recovery Services Vault (RSV) and backup solutions are designed to meet all your disaster recovery and backup requirements effectively.

  • Artificial Intelligence.

    • Azure offers a range of AI services, including Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure Databricks, empowering organizations to seamlessly integrate AI models and capabilities into their projects.

  • Advanced Analytics and Business Intelligence.

    • Azure Synapse Analytics is an enterprise analytics service for data warehouses and big data systems; Azure Databricks for big data. PowerBI for Business Intelligence and data reporting.

  • Hybrid Capabilities.

    • Azure offers several hybrid solutions that can host applications and workloads, extend Azure services, and provide security and operational tooling for hybrid environments.

EIS Azure Data Solutions and Services

Businesses are constantly seeking ways to reduce costs, stay technologically current, and enhance customer satisfaction. The Microsoft cloud serves as the cornerstone of your business growth strategy. EIS cloud experts are ready to assist you in designing solutions that support your present and future business requirements.

EIS Cloud Services:

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Cloud Readiness Assessments Cloud Readiness Assessments offer a holistic view of an organization's IT landscape and technology stack, helping to identify the costs and risks associated with Azure migration. These assessments assist in pinpointing the strengths and weaknesses of the change strategy, potential barriers, enablers of change, and the necessary actions for success.

EIS goes a step further by Identifying Business Objectives and Migration Opportunities, Evaluating Internal Resources, Scrutinizing Existing IT Infrastructure Requirements, Identifying Security Requirements, and Determining Timeline and Budget.

Furthermore, EIS conducts a comprehensive cloud risk assessment checklist, covering key aspects such as Identifying Assets, Data Classification, Threat Identification, Risk Evaluation (including security audit, business continuity management, encryption and key management, access control management, threat and vulnerability assessment, logging and monitoring, and incident management). This approach ensures thorough consideration of security and compliance factors in your cloud migration journey.

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Cloud Migration Services involve the organization and migration of all your business applications and data to an accessible cloud environment. EIS's expert team plans migrations in phases to ensure minimal service disruption. The strategies encompass Lift and Shift, Refactor, Replatform, Rebuild, Retire, Replace, Rehosting, and Repurchasing. These services encompass the process and technology used by businesses to transition to the cloud.

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Cloud Architecture Design Cloud Architecture Design encompasses the development of a technical strategy and implementation plan. It assists clients in establishing a strategy to bring the cloud experience and operating model to their applications and data, facilitating IT modernization with agility and flexibility. This design process addresses the analysis of IT requirements, including specific business and technical needs, and maps them to the Azure Cloud Architecture Framework. It provides design recommendations and describes best practices and principles to define the architecture effectively.

EIS Azure Solutions:

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Azure Security Management Azure Security Assessment and planning with focus include Azure AD, Defender, ID/RBAC, Key Vault, Azure Logs and Azure Monitor. Microsoft Defender for Cloud, formerly known as Azure Security Center, offers Azure security protection, but extends beyond this to provide protection to all public and hybrid cloud environments. Core Azure identity management capabilities include: Single sign-on, Multi-factor authentication, Security monitoring, alerts, and machine learning-based reports; also include Consumer identity and access management, Device registration, Privileged identity management and Identity protection.

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Azure Web Application Intergration with Azure App Services with Multiple languages and frameworks (support for ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, Java, Ruby, Node.js, PHP, or Python) for following APP types: Web Apps, API Apps, Logic Apps, Mobile Apps and Function Apps.

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Azure IaaS infrastructure Leverage Azure IaaS infrastructure to support you developing and workload hosting; optima scalability/performance and cost control; Bring always up-to-date Azure services to your infrastructure; Protect your applications/data and networks by implementing a Zero Trust security model on Azure.

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Azure Database Management Ensuring that your data remains clean and organized is key to smooth and reliable business operations. With managed services for Azure, your data management systems can be designed to scale with your business. SQL Managed Instance provides support for instance-scoped features enabling easy migration of existing applications, as well as sharing resources among databases. Whereas SQL Server on Azure VMs provide DBAs with an experience most similar to the on-premises environment. Azure takes care of database management optimize performance with built-in intelligence. Stay up and running with automatic feature updates and patches as well as the industry's highest financially backed SLAs of up to 99.999% availability. Azure SQL Database has some additional features not available in SQL Server, such as built-in high availability, intelligence, and management.

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Azure Disaster Recovery Your business can not afford to go offline. Your operations depend on continual access to data, and our disaster recovery (DR) managed Azure service gives you that assurance. With disaster recovery set up, Azure VMs continuously replicate to a different target region. If an outage occurs, you can fail over VMs to the secondary region, and access them from there. When everything's running normally again, you can fail back to the primary location. Azure Site Recovery(ASR) supports disaster recovery of on-premises physical servers running Windows and Linux to Azure or to a secondary site.

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Azure Monitoring, Alert and Notification Azure Monitor is a single source of truth for collecting, analyzing, and responding to data from your cloud and on-premises environments. You can use Azure Monitor to maximize the availability and performance of your cloud applications and services. Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights are the Microsoft combined three unique services under the umbrella of Azure Monitor to provide powerful monitoring.

Azure Security

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Azure Security - Azure Active Directory (AD) Provide Azure AD provides single sign-on, multifactor authentication, and conditional access to guard against cybersecurity attacks; Azure AD also provides administrators with the ability to manage end-user identities and access privileges include core directory, access management and identity protection for the four types of Azure AD identities: users, service principals, managed identities, and system identities.

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Azure Security - Azure Key Vault (KV) Setup and config Azure Key Vault to provide a cloud service for securely storing and accessing secrets/passwords, keys, certificates, and cryptographic keys; azure Key Vault is a cloud service for securely storing and accessing secrets that tightly control cloud access.

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Azure Security - Azure managed identities (MI & UMI) and service principals (SP) On Azure, plan and create MI/UMI/SP to eliminate the need for developer team having to manage credentials for the Azure resource; create and manage SP for registed applications in Azure tenant and MI/UMI for Azure resources with Azure blueprints/JSON, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, Microsoft Graph, and other tools.

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Azure Security - Microsoft Purview Microsoft Purview provides a unified data governance solution to help manage and govern your data, with easily created data map of your data landscape, automated data discovery, sensitive data classification, and end-to-end data lineage. Purview is the risk management, protection, and compliance solutions for Your Organizations Data. Purview have Intelligent to use machine learning capabilities to classify content and automatically apply appropriate policies.

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Azure Security - Azure Network (VNET) EIS Azure Backup service comprehensively protects your data assets in Azure through a simple, secure, and cost-effective solution that requires zero-infrastructure. Azure backup options include locally redundant storage (LRS), geo-redundant storage (GRS), and zone-redundant storage (ZRS) for VM, SQL DB and Azure storage :

  • Quickly create and deploy mission-critical web apps at scale.
  • Publish APIs to developers, partners, and employees securely and at scale.
  • Fast, reliable content delivery network with global reach.
  • Enterprise scale search for app development.
  • Connect your datacenter, services, and customers with Microsoft Azure networking
  • Support you business solutions with all Azure services, leading security, availability, and performance.

Azure Specialty

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Azure Specialty - Azure Backup EIS Azure Backup service comprehensively protects your data assets in Azure through a simple, secure, and cost-effective solution that requires zero-infrastructure. Azure backup options include locally redundant storage (LRS), geo-redundant storage (GRS), and zone-redundant storage (ZRS) for VM, SQL DB and Azure storage.

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Azure Specialty - Azure IaC and Azure Blueprints Azure Blueprints are a declarative way to orchestrate the deployment of various resource templates and other artifact. Azure Blueprints makes it possible for rapidly build and start up new environments with trust they're building within organizational compliance with a set of built-in components; A blueprint is a package of composing focus-specific sets of standards, patterns, and requirements related to the implementation of Azure cloud services, security, and design that can be reused to maintain consistency and compliance.

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Azure Specialty - Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Azure Data Lake Storage is a cloud-based, enterprise data lake solution. It's engineered to store massive amounts of data in any format Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) is a secured and scalable Data Lake that helps to achieve high-performance analytics workloads.

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Azure Specialty - Azure SQL Database EIS can serve your RDBMS requirements with all Azure SQL options:

  • Azure SQL VM / Server
  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure SQL Database Elastic Pool
  • Azure SQL Data Warehouse
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Azure Specialty - Azure Big Data Databricks and LakeHouse EIS will build your Azure Databricks LakeHouse to store data in any format; have real-time streaming pipelines and add new data sources; to support open data management architecture that combines the flexibility, cost-efficiency, and scale of data lakes with ACID transactions of data warehouses, enabling business intelligence (BI) and machine learning (ML) on all data.

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Azure Specialty - Azure Data Warehouse EIS Azure Data Warehouse, a unified cloud-based data warehousing solution (such as Azure Synapse Analytics), gives organizations the ability to scale, compute, and store at. Azure Synapse is a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It provide you the Dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW) with the enterprise data warehousing features that are highly available globally (with Azure GEO restore / DR).

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Azure Specialty - Azure Static Web Leverage Github and Azure Storage EIS can help you host a basic web application and website for free. Azure Static Web Apps is a service that automatically builds and deploys full stack web apps to Azure from a code repository. The workflow of Azure Static Web Apps is tailored to a developer's daily workflow.

EIS Data Services:

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Data Solution Architecture Designs EIS Data Solution architecture Designs is a practice to provide ground for software development projects by tailoring IT solutions to specific business needs and defining their functional requirements and stages of implementation. It is comprised of many subprocesses that draw guidance from various enterprise architecture viewpoints. provide a whole data solution design in Azure include data access, encryption, modeling, ETL, storage, BI/visualization and reporting. Data Solution Architecture Designs visual representations of the components, interactions, and dependencies of a software system. They help communicate the design and functionality of a solution to stakeholders like developers, clients, users, and managers. EIS provide a data architecture describes how data is managed--from collection through to transformation, distribution, and consumption. It sets the blueprint for data and the way it flows through data storage systems. It is foundational to data processing operations and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

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Data Modeling Design and Development The data modeling is a way of organizing data in a structured and logical manner. EIS help you to leverage modeling methods in an intuitive, straightforward way of representing data in the process of analyzing and defining all the different data types your business collects and produces to achive a comprehensive and optimized data state and helps create a simplified, logical database that eliminates redundancy, reduces storage requirements, and enables efficient retrieval. following are some examples of the types of EIS database model:

  • Hierarchical database model
  • Relational model
  • Network model
  • Object-oriented database model
  • Entity-relationship model
  • Entity-attribute-value model
  • Star schema
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RDBMS Data BI, Visulization and Reporting EIS data BI and Visulization through Craft and execute queries, process data files and transform raw data into meaningful and actionable insights; Visualize and data reporting assists businesses in converting information into insights, transforms data into information and examines data to determine why and how to fix business problems. EIS can help you to collecting unprocessed data from different sources and presenting data in a structured format to facilitate data-driven decision making. The goal of data reporting is to make data easily understandable and accessible to stakeholders, such as managers, executives, and clients.

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RDBMS performance tunning EIS will help you to accelerate query response, improving indexing, deploying clusters, Defragmenting data and with other effective approaches:

  • Optimize Queries.
  • Improve Indexes.
  • Defragment Data.
  • Review Joins or CROSS JOINs.
  • Review looping statements and nested subqueries.
  • Resolve Blocking and Deadlocks.
  • Increase Memory or Strengthen CPU.
  • Check Wildcard searches or Multiple schema queries.
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RDBMS Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) Solution Design and implementation. Many business owners believe that their organization is protected from disruption because critical data are backed up to the cloud; but backup not equal to BCDR; BCDR is a set of policies, tools, and procedures that enable the recovery or continuation of business-critical operations in the event of a disaster such as ransomware attack, human error, malicious deletion, and natural disasters. EIS RDBMS BCDR service refers to planning, documentation, testing, training BCDR solutions with the goal to minimize downtime.

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RDBMS Data Security Analysis and implementation Data Security is an important concern in database management because the information stored in a database is very valuable and quite sensitive; As a result, data in a database management system must be protected from abuse and illegal access and updates. EIS RDBMS Data Security ensure data security and privacy through many layers and types of information security control including:

  • Access control
  • Auditing
  • Authentication
  • Encryption
  • Integrity controls
  • Backups
  • Application security