Azaleos and The Cloud: Managed Services for Exchange, SharePoint, OCS and Active Directory

Azaleos’ core business is managing collaboration environments. Our services have scaled and evolved since we opened in 2004 and today we manage thousands of servers in over 50 countries across 5 continents. From Day 1, our solution was built to scale and to be consumed by our customers in whichever fashion is best for them, whether that’s on-premise, in the cloud or a mix of both.

Whitepaper: Messaging and Collaboration in the Cloud: What You Need To Know

As a Tier I BPOS Partner, we helped Microsoft build the deployment processes for their cloud solution. Azaleos has deployed some of the largest BPOS-D clients, over 2 million seats in all. We’ve thoroughly evaluated both the Microsoft cloud and the overall Cloud offerings on the market for messaging and collaboration and understand what environments make the best fits and how others create more risk.

The Azaleos approach to the cloud centers around 3 core deployment environments: Public, Private and Hybrid.

Public: This is the most familiar example of cloud computing: big, publicly available, Web-based applications such as Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). Azaleos recommends BPOS if it is a fit for the customer. However, many companies still have concern over this model, often citing security and reliability as key issues preventing them from moving their IT operations to publicly shared infrastructure, even if it's cheaper. Those companies increasingly have another alternative -- the “private cloud”.
Private: Unlike the public cloud, the resources of the private cloud are shared only within the single corporate community. They're controlled by the corporation, not a third-party vendor who has the ability to lease and share them to anyone it chooses. Private clouds can operate within a company’s Active Directory and are often built by leveraging virtualization and the security of a third-party datacenter like those provided by Azaleos or our partners, Verizon Business and IBM.
Hybrid: An emerging approach to the cloud is the hybrid model which allows for increased flexibility to respond to unique business scenarios or security/regulatory restrictions. The hybrid cloud allows businesses to benefit from a cloud model where possible but not to have to accept limited security, feature sets, and control for all users and/or all applications. You can read more about some of these scenarios and the Azaleos services that address them.

The Azaleos solution set is built on a flexible delivery model that meets the needs of either model or a combination of both. Our core business is managing Exchange, SharePoint, OCS and Active Directory so companies get better performance and save money. Our technology gives customers the freedom to put their data wherever they choose – and consume our services in whichever fashion is best for them.

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