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Hybrid Cloud featuring Microsoft® AzureDo you want unparalleled flexibility in your migration to the cloud?

Business challenges

Are you looking to the cloud to transform your business model to compete in the digital age and support an increasingly mobile workforce?

Increasing demands from users, a growing volume of data, and even stricter governance requirements – all of these can often outstrip the capabilities of your existing IT infrastructure, whether it’s running on virtual machines or not. Outdated IT processes and platforms also make it difficult to embrace new technologies and innovation in a competitive market.

With your employees accessing applications via public connectivity and the Internet rather from a traditional office network, driving this traffic back to your own data centre isn’t always the best model for a fast-changing work and commercial world. Often obsolete

software or servers are imposed triggers of transformation. When you add the relentless pressure to cut cost from IT, change is inevitable.

How do you focus on standardisation, consolidation, and optimisation of your infrastructure? And do this in a way that matches your specific business needs?

Is hybrid cloud the answer?

Perhaps you’ve already started to leverage the benefits of cloud in your own environment by taking virtualisation to the next level in your data centre. Maybe you’re looking at public cloud for scale, data storage, business continuity and disaster recovery, and cost savings – or private cloud to retain privacy and meet compliancy requirements.

As you’ve probably discovered, every stage of transformation shares a common element: complexity.

Solution

Your business is different – why should your cloud look the same?

Dimension Data brings you Hybrid Cloud featuring Microsoft® Azure and our own Managed Cloud Platforms on Microsoft’s Windows server virtualisation, Hyper-V.

We give you unparalleled flexibility in your IT infrastructure to empower you to efficiently manage your workloads in your own data centre or off-site. With a portfolio of on-premise, private, and public cloud options, you can increase agility, reduce risk, and see a positive return on investment.

Cloud has the ability to reinvigorate your workspaces, extending innovative technology into your business processes and systems – delivering a critical business application and other functions to the end user, no matter where a work function is being performed.

at a glance Hybrid Cloud featuring Microsoft® Azure

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Hybrid Cloud with Microsoft Azure

on-premise private cloud

off-site private cloud

off-site public cloud

in your very own data centre

on Dimension Data’s 18 global Managed

Cloud Platforms

on Microsoft’s network of global data centres

advantages +

• self-service

• maximum control

• move to an opex model

• high availability

• meets compliance and regulatory needs

• complete security control

• hosted, single tenanted

• highly reliable, robust platform

• better privacy

• scalability and storage on demand

• best-in-class cybersecurity

• enterprise-ready for your Microsoft software

• lower costs

• highly automated and/or virtualised

• on-demand resources

• amortise investment

• simplified data storage

limitations –

• limited scale

• manual process to manage

• resource heavy

• higher upfront costs

• off-premise may incur governance or sovereignty limitations

• multi-tenanted platform may limit privacy

• security and governances regulations for sensitive data

hyper virtualisation and automation Microsoft Hyper-V and software for workloads

your cloud, your choice

How do you optimise your data centre?Azure services

• Identity-as-a-Service: Active Directory in a federated public cloud environment, which can be extended to other identity services in the cloud, including two-factor authentication.

• Backup and Recovery-as-a-Service: for long-term high-volume retention and recovery, to restore databases and servers as needed by leveraging Azure business continuity and disaster recovery.

• Management and Monitoring Tools-as-a-Service: deploy software, as well as harness monitoring, managing, and reporting tools.

• Media and Networking Tools-as-a-Service: extend or access media services, such as video, for streaming media from the cloud.

Dimension Data’s consulting and managed services

• Consulting services: we can help assess your cloud readiness for workloads and applications to tailor migrations that best fit your business.

• Managed services: we offer a suite of managed services to support and operate workloads across the hybrid cloud platforms.‘ With Microsoft and Dimension Data, you get

the best of both worlds and a blend of choices to match your business needs.’

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Transforming your data centre – today

Dimension Data can help you embrace models that best suit your business, leveraging Microsoft technologies to virtualise and automate your IT infrastructure. Microsoft is ideally positioned to address any modern enterprise needs.

With the highest level partnership with Microsoft globally, we can provide access to technical and commercial programmes to make your migration as seamless as possible – in breaking down complexity and driving down operational costs in your data centre. We have the capability to deliver global solutions underpinned by local relevance and support.

‘ We have global expertise in cybersecurity, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud to deliver the best productivity solution for your business, customers, and employees. ’

Dimension Data takes a balanced approach, tailoring your migrations to a cloud platform that best fits your business and workload needs. We have both the expertise and systems to do this in the shortest time with the least risk. We partner with specialist independent software vendors to leverage the power and benefits of automation.

With our Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), you can break down the inhibiting silos in your data centre for a converged infrastructure that will deliver agility, innovation, scale, and security. Whether as a paid-for-use or fully outsourced solution, we can lessen the complexity of your IT so you can focus on what really matters: your business ambitions.

Why Dimension Data?

Dimension Data has the highest level partnership with Microsoft globally to enable:

• access to technical information and services

• programmes to accelerate the adoption of hybrid cloud

• support and technical assistance programmes to ensure ongoing success and resolution of problems

Our Microsoft credentials include:

• Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider

• Winner of 16 global Microsoft Partner of the Year awards for last nine years

• Global Microsoft Partner of the Year award winner for Modern Datacentre – Customer Focus 2015

• recognised expertise in Microsoft identity management, systems management, communications, and calendaring and mail

• member of Microsoft Infrastructure and Azure Business Partner Advisory Councils