Microsoft CSP: All Your Cloud Needs Managed Under One Roof

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Digital Transformation is something organisations are seeing as the way forward and any Digital Transformation journey is incomplete without cloud offerings.

With 94% of total workloads being projected to be processed on cloud data centres by 2021 i , Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider program has been developed to help businesses of any size to leverage Azure and benefit from Azure services.

What is the Microsoft CSP program?

The cloud-exclusive partnership program by Microsoft recognizes reliable partners with extensive Microsoft expertise to help serve businesses with a comprehensive range of Azure offerings, ranging from assessment to support. Essentially, Microsoft enables the recognized partners directly manage their customers’ cloud environment lifecycles.

Talking of cloud management lifecycles, a typical cloud environment in an enterprise requires to be assessed of its as-is systems, migrated to a modernized environment, optimized for efficiency and secured against cyber risks and challenges.

Here we explore these phases in detail:

Assess:

discovering, analysing and assessing which resources and data from on-premises need to be migrated to the cloud first

Migrate:

migration is defined and executed along with modernization strategies like refactoring, re- hosting and re-architecting. This part also includes infrastructure migration, data migration and App migration

Optimize:

At this point, all the cloud spends are optimized. Customers can use Azure Hybrid Benefit and Azure Reserved Instances along with Azure Cost Management

Secure and manage:

: Once resources are migrated, their security is crucial. A security and management solution is implemented accordingly to ensure security & compliance standards are met

Why should I partner with a Microsoft CSP?

Typically, internal IT resources in an organization lack the skills and bandwidth to monitor and maintain a cloud environment effectively; making it prone to security threats, data loss and downtimes. That’s why it’s important to partner with a reliable and proven Microsoft CSP to manage cloud environments cost-effectively, efficiently and securely.

Also, a partnership with one of the Microsoft CSPs comes with its own benefits:

Minimize risks:

: Maintaining a cloud environment comes with its risks. Take the COVID-19 situation for instance – all the IT resources are supporting remotely. As Murphy’s Law goes, anything that can go wrong will go wrong! However, having a CSP taking care of your cloud environment eliminates ​ such risks; for a CSP like Fyrsoft guarantees round-the-clock support, empowered by certified Microsoft experts

Guaranteed uptime:

With data centres located in all parts of the world, Azure can offer Service Level Agreements (SLAs) guaranteeing around 99.99% uptime which results in minimization of downtime in a year

Enhanced security:

The Azure data centres have multi-tier authentication, proxy card access readers, hand geometry biometric readers, global incident response team etc., ensuring an enhanced security posture for your cloud environment

Licensing Support:

All the Microsoft cloud licenses are managed by the CSP which would allow you to leverage the expertise and skills, to maximize the benefits of your spends

Pay as per the usage:

Pay-as-you-go and quickly scale up or down to match the demand, so you only pay for what you consume. This helps in managing your cloud spending by customizing tailored solutions for the requirements.

The benefit involves flexible pricing where the payment is adjusted as per the utilization of the resources.

Should you choose Enterprise Agreement or CSP?

If you are looking to choose a scalable solution that allows you to evolve as your needs change, then opting for a CSP Partner is your best bet. The CSP program enables you to add or remove users as required while allowing you to pay as you use instantaneously.

With EA contracts offering no flexibility, an increasing number of organizations are moving to CSP when the existing contracts are coming up for renewal.

How to get Azure subscription without Credit Card?

The Microsoft CSP model of subscription allows you to pay as per the usage and this payment does not require a credit card. It simplifies your subscription lifecycle and also enables one to have multiple Azure subscriptions in a single plan. You are no longer required to have different subscriptions for different needs.

In this new e-commerce experience of Azure, we have aligned to a single global pricing principle enabling CSP partners to offer Azure at the published prices. The only prerequisite for the migration to be implemented is that the partner and end-customer must have an established reseller relationship through Partner Centre, and the customer must have signed the Microsoft Customer Agreement.

Can I migrate existing Azure Services to CSP Azure?

After assessing your current cloud environment, the experts will help migrate the solutions to the new subscription without any interruption in services. The not-so-easily-moved Azure subscriptions need tailored solutions that can be provided by a CSP for a seamless migration.

How can Fyrsoft help?

In the face of COVID-19 where enterprises need to keep up their business continuity, Fyrsoft is a trusted Microsoft Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP). Here’s why:

  • Our dedicated team of Microsoft certified experts with a customer-centric approach would chalk out differentiated services with ease to assess, migrate and manage your cloud ecosystem
  • With esteemed partnerships, Fyrsoft enables quick delivery and access to a wide range of various technologies for consumption that would help run the business with minimum operational hiccups
  • Our cloud specialists are available round the clock to cater to any service or operational requests
  • Now that the customer’s data is in the cloud, our real responsibilities begin with management of ongoing operations. As a part of this offering, we provide the base management services your customers are looking for: automation and orchestration, patching updates, configuration management, backup and disaster recovery, and identity management
  • The experts at Fyrsoft have extensive expertise in providing cloud services to companies around the world. Our clientele includes several enterprises from the Fortune 500 quadrant

How do I partner with Fyrsoft for the CSP program?

If you are interested in learning more about Microsoft’s CSP, contact us for a consult. Our experts will help understand how to optimize your cloud operations. Click here to check out our CSP offerings in detail and schedule a virtual one-on-one consult with one of our cloud experts.