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Cloud Infrastructure Solutions. With Microsoft Azure.

With a team of experts, we can help you take advantage of Microsoft Azure, planning and implementing cloud-hosted infrastructure to deliver world-class productivity solutions. We harness a number of key technologies in the Microsoft Azure stack, from Azure Web Apps to geo-distributed Virtual Machines.

We work with you to offload core infrastructure that resides on-premises today, to plan, shift and integrate components into a cloud-hosted environment in the future. We offer strategic and technical guidance to evaluate existing application workloads that are hosted on-premises, that would be better suited to the cloud. Delivering access, performance and scalability benefits as well as cost savings.

I need to build core infrastructure in the cloud

I need to host an enterprise application in the cloud

I need to extend my infrastructure to Microsoft Azure

Flexible and On-Demand. Infrastructure With Azure IAAS.

We work with you to take advantage of the low cost and flexible nature of Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings, to deploy environments to host low impact development and test environments right through to business critical solutions built on SharePoint and other Microsoft based technologies. This allows us to exploit the scalable “pay as you use” model that Azure provides to its full advantage. Starting out small and building out infrastructure as workload demand and capacity needs grow, is a key characteristic of requirements well suited to this scenario.

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Move Or Build. Enterprise Apps In The Cloud.

We have embarked upon a number of journeys to re-architect and re-host legacy on-premises applications in Microsoft Azure to take advantage of the inherent cost savings and benefits the Azure cloud provides. Whether it’s an ASP.NET application or another line of business application, our Azure experts work with you to evaluate existing requirements and business needs to determine how best to migrate and implement the application in Azure. We take advantage of the most appropriate components to do so, be it Azure Virtual Machines, a combination of Azure Web Apps, geo-distributed SQL Azure Databases or something else to successfully deliver the needs.

2 ways Azure Resource Manager is accelerating Microsoft’s infrastructure services

Even though the Azure platform has been around for several years now, the services that it offers have been continually evolving, bringing new features to consumers. It has not been standing still from a management point of view either and the IT professional now has a much more advanced API to use in the form of Azure Resource Manager (ARM).

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Collaborating across Office 365 tenants utilizing Azure B2B

Late last year Microsoft announced the release of the Azure B2B Collaboration capability. Azure B2B allows you to ease the management process of allowing users from different organisations to share data and collaborate with each other within applications that utilise Azure AD for authentication.

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Hybrid Deployment. Extend Your IT Estate To Azure.

We offer services to exploit the benefits of the cloud without impacting existing applications that are hosted on-premises. Core infrastructure services such as Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and Microsoft or Linux based Virtual Machines can be hosted in the cloud while maintaining connections back to on-premises applications and data. We do this by using advanced networking techniques, establishing Site-to-Site VPNs between on-premises data centers and the Azure environment, providing seamless connectivity between the two environments.

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Where Next? Relevant Stories and Insights.

Configuring inbound Hybrid Search for a large distributed organization

In this post I'm focusing on a particular problem area to be aware of when configuring the Inbound Hybrid Search scenario. I'd like to call out some of my personal experiences when working through this scenario with a real organization, supporting a large number of users across a large number of devices.

Private Azure Cloud with Windows Azure Pack

Microsoft have recently released the trial version of the Windows Azure Pack.

Three big business challenges solved by the cloud

Simply moving your Intranet to the Cloud on its own isn't enough, but moving to the Cloud in the right way for your organization can deliver substantial gains in these areas.

The Cloud Infrastructure Team. Our People Are What Make Us.

We recognize that our people are our greatest asset and as a team, we have the perfect blend of user experience and technical skills, that enable us to deliver extraordinary digital experiences. Everyone at BrightStarr is an individual valued for their skills, capabilities and experience, but we all have four things in common - a passion for; technology, innovation, creativity and customer service. Here is a selection of some of our Starrs.