Open Future Blog by Syone

Public services are increasingly under pressure to modernize their operations and meet growing citizen expectations.  

As central pillars of local governance, city halls are adopting innovative technologies like Microsoft Azure to streamline processes, enhance citizen engagement, and build resilient communities. 

In this article, we’ll explore the transformative impact of cloud solutions on public services, specifically focusing on the unique benefits they offer city halls.

As businesses across industries leveragecutting-edge technologies to stay competitive and innovate, Microsoft Azure has emerged as a leading cloud platform, enabling organizations to drive digital transformation with speed, scalability, and efficiency.  
 
From healthcare to retail, various industries choose Azure for its robust capabilities, tailored solutions, and proven ability to generate tangible business results. 

The growth of cloud computing is one of the most prominent technological advancements in recent times. At Syone, we understand the potential revolutionary role that could be played by cloud solutions to influence business operations and therefore wish to help you take advantage of this through the adoption of technologies like Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, OpenShift, and Red Hat Cloudforms.

Cloud computing offers a wide range of benefits for businesses of all sizes. By moving your applications, data, and processes to the cloud, you can achieve:

• Flexibility: Cloud-based services and applications can be accessed from anywhere at any time, enabling remote work and enhancing collaboration among team members;

Besides the severe implications on health and healthcare services, COVID-19 (Coronavirus) had a serious impact on business and the general economy. Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared this pandemic, many companies have been struggling to adapt and assure business continuity. For that matter, we present you 5 solutions that can help you make a seamless transition to remote work in a secure way. 

These solutions aim to ensure team productivity, remote and secure access to information and work environments, and even to make sure your online and e-commerce applications are running smoothly, meeting the usage spikes that we've been witnessing lately.

So, if your organization is facing significant challenges since this pandemic arose, this post is for you!

This time, I brought a subject that was one of the main topics on the Azure Essentials Workshop that we did with Microsoft: cloud migration!

What is Cloud Migration?

Cloud migration is the process of moving data, applications or other business elements to a cloud environment.

What companies usually do is to relocate most of its computing assets to the cloud, and some applications and services still remain on-premise. You probably heard about hybrid cloud too, in this option, you can go for both public and private cloud environments, that also includes on-premise computing assets.