Scale globally with Windows Azure cloud computing.
Today, competition and opportunity are global and business stakes and expectations are high. For the IT departments and business leaders, this means being customer-centric, highly responsive and cost-effective on a global scale.
- Companies leveraging the cloud are able to enter new markets faster than ever, in a cost-effectively manner, while maintaining control.
- The ability to quickly scale up or down with high availability options and low administration time, means more business results and fewer emergencies.
According to a recent Gartner report, the global enterprise SaaS market will grow by nearly 16% in 2011 as deployments become larger with deals often covering tens of thousands of users.
Related Resources
Blog
Sitecore’s CTO John West describes Sitecore Architecture, Performance and Scalability, including Azure, in this technical “Differentiating Factors” series
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Senior VP of Product Marketing Darren Guarnaccia describes the compelling reasons behind the use of Sitecore and Microsoft Azure technology together.
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The worldwide Microsoft Partnership Conference featured Microsoft’s move to the cloud with Azure. Blog and video from Sitecore’s attendee, Erick Mott, VP Community.
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See a deployment in action in this 2 minute video, from concept overview to the actual Sitecore User Interface deployment.
Spend less getting to market, and more on making your market bigger!
Enage new markets
Sitecore deployed with Windows Azure allows you quickly deploy to new markets with no hardware infrastructure to plan, purchase, deploy and manage. With this need-driven combination, you can focus more on deploying your digital strategy and increasing revenue.
Freedom to focus on your competitive advantages.
Are you challenged with 24/7 demands and remote, multi-country infrastructure operations? Azure’s Platform as a Service can empower you to gain business advantage without the operational drain.
With Sitecore software and Windows Azure:
Best of both worlds for IT. Your core and master Sitecore servers are deployed locally at your facilities behind your firewall, but your public facing Sitecore web servers are hosted at Microsoft global cloud facilities. Security and scalability are maximised.
Agility. Deploy worldwide with a single click from within the Sitecore UI in as little as one hour, a fraction of the time for typical infrastructure deployment. You'll save considerable time and capital costs.
Scale with reliability. Deploy on Demand without hardware concerns. You’ll quickly gain geographic coverage, have optimized local page-load response time and redundancy for 99.9 % uptime reliability. With multiple data centers and diverse bandwidth, you maximise disaster-preparedness.