Microsoft Azure managed services

Microsoft Azure managed services

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Optimised for your organisation’s needs

Our ASPIRE Microsoft Azure Managed Service encompasses flexibility, innovation and Azure cloud expertise to deliver measurable value to your organisation. By investing in transparent, outcome-based, value-level agreements that form part of the Azure service, you will receive the return on investment you deserve.

Microsoft Azure Managed Service Features

Our Azure Managed Service takes ownership of the tasks that distract you from what really matters – driving your business objectives and strategic initiatives. Take advantage of new functionality to deliver long-term measurable return on investment, realise business value outcomes, and enjoy a stable and fully tested solution with our Azure Managed Service.

Multi-level support

Level 1, 2, 3 or 4 support across your Microsoft Azure environment. Ultimate service flexibility with pick and mix options to define your service coverage.

Tooling and testing

Maximise efficiency through automated testing and tightly integrated monitoring, ITSM and Generative AI tools

Value level agreements

We measure service success not only on hitting SLAs around resolution and response time, but also on tangible ‘value adds’ to your organisation. We call these VLAs or Value Level Agreements.

Security updates and patching

Security updates and patching to keep operating systems protected with latest security releases and technology updates.

Azure consumption cost optimisation managed service features

Our Azure Consumption Cost Optimisation Managed Service is available as part of the Azure Managed Service, or standalone. On an ongoing basis, this service examines your Azure subscriptions to assess the opportunity to take advantage of non-disruptive measures to reduce your Azure consumption costs.

Azure cost optimisation

Level 1, 2, 3 or 4 support across your Microsoft Azure environment. Ultimate service flexibility with pick and mix options to define your service coverage.

Azure hybrid benefit enablement

Assessment of your Azure subscriptions and the current use of Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows and SQL Servers to determine the opportunity for further cost optimisation.

Reserved instances and capacity

Leveraging lower pricing for resources without disruption or impacting on performance or availability by committing to using compute, databases and storage.

Savings plans

A broad, catch-all method for reducing the same-use cost of resources each month by committing to a level of spending in Azure.

"It’s been a journey for Harrow Council in terms of being able to understand what things look like at the moment to be able to migrate them off to the Cloud, but it’s also been a journey for Version 1 who’ve been our IT partner. They’ve been able to support us in terms of the delivery of the migration and act as a big brother; letting us learn as we’ve been going along in this journey, but also giving us advice and support where it’s required."

Minali Jones , Head of IT Business Management, Harrow Council
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