Microsoft Azure is a leading cloud platform with hundreds of services – from virtual machines and databases to AI and analytics – all available on demand. Computer One designs and manages Azure solutions tailored to your organisation, helping you reduce IT costs, streamline operations and improve security.
With Azure, you gain enterprise-grade capabilities without the complexity, scaling resources up or down as needed and only paying for what you use. This means mid-sized firms gain the flexibility and performance once only available to enterprises. As your Azure partner, we bridge the gap between what Azure can do and what your business needs, delivering a cloud environment that drives growth and efficiency.
Choosing Computer One as your Azure partner means gaining a local team of Microsoft-certified experts focused on your success. We have extensive experience delivering Azure solutions for mid-sized Australian businesses, tailoring services to your goals rather than offering generic packages.
Our clients value our transparency, responsiveness and commitment to real results. We provide the full spectrum of Azure services – migration, management, support and strategy – under one roof, making cloud adoption simpler. With proven skills across the Azure ecosystem, we turn your investment into measurable outcomes such as reduced IT costs, improved performance and stronger security.
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Azure cloud services refer to the wide range of computing resources and functionalities offered by Microsoft Azure on its cloud platform. This includes virtual machines, storage, databases, networking, development tools, and pre-built solutions like AI services. Instead of owning physical servers, businesses can use Azure services on-demand via the internet.
This approach provides great flexibility – you can quickly launch or shut down resources as needed – and you only pay for what you use. In short, Azure cloud services let companies access enterprise-grade IT capabilities (like high-powered servers, global databases, and advanced analytics) in a flexible, subscription-based model.
Microsoft Azure can significantly reduce IT costs for mid-sized organisations. Firstly, Azure’s pay-as-you-go pricing means you avoid large upfront investments in hardware – you rent computing power and storage by the hour or gigabyte. This shifts IT spending from capital expense to operating expense, smoothing out your cash flow.
Secondly, Azure’s scalability prevents over-provisioning; you can scale resources up during busy periods and scale down when they’re not needed, so you’re not paying for idle equipment.
Additionally, Azure includes cost management tools and recommendations that we use to continually optimise your environment for savings. Many businesses find that moving workloads to Azure lowers their total cost of ownership by eliminating on-premises maintenance costs and improving operational efficiency.
Yes, absolutely. One of Azure’s strengths is its support for hybrid cloud scenarios. We can integrate your on-premises servers and network with Azure so that both environments work together seamlessly. For example, you might keep sensitive data on a local server while hosting web front-ends in Azure, yet the two can communicate securely as if they were on one network. Azure provides tools like Azure Active Directory Connect, VPN gateways, and Azure File Sync to enable this integration.
With a hybrid setup, you can gradually move workloads to Azure at your own pace and leverage cloud benefits (like scalability and remote access) while still utilising your existing infrastructure. Computer One specialises in designing these hybrid environments, ensuring consistency in security, performance, and management across your on-premises and Azure resources.
Security is a top priority in our Azure services. We implement multi-layered protections to safeguard your cloud environment. This starts with secure architecture design – setting up your Azure virtual network with proper segmentation, firewalls, and access controls. We enforce strong identity management using Azure Active Directory with features like multi-factor authentication and role-based access, ensuring only the right people can reach critical systems. We also turn on Azure’s native security services (such as Azure Defender and threat detection tools) to continuously monitor for suspicious activities or vulnerabilities.
Our team applies security updates and patches promptly to keep every resource up-to-date. In addition, we conduct regular security audits and utilise Azure Security Centre’s recommendations to improve your security posture over time. With 24x7 monitoring, if anything unusual is detected, we respond ASAP.
Ultimately, Computer One leverages Azure’s best practices and our own expertise so that your data and applications remain well-protected against threats.
Our Azure managed service is a comprehensive package covering all aspects of running your cloud environment. Initial onboarding and migration of systems into Azure is typically treated as a standalone project, although we can amortise the investment into a monthly fee if you prefer. Thereafter, we provide continuous daily management. We take care of resource provisioning (like creating virtual machines or databases), performance monitoring, and routine maintenance (patching servers, updating software, managing backups). You also get 24x7 support – if any issue arises in your Azure infrastructure, our team will respond and resolve it, day or night. We handle security management and cost management (optimising configurations to avoid overspend).
Essentially, we become your extended IT team for everything Azure. You maintain control over high-level strategy and usage decisions, but we handle the technical heavy lifting and proactive administration to keep your Azure services running smoothly and efficiently.
No – you remain in control. Migrating to Azure doesn’t mean handing over your IT decisions to a third party. Think of Azure as renting very flexible computer resources in Microsoft’s data centres. You still decide what applications to run, how your data is used, and who can access what – those governance aspects stay with you. When Computer One manages your Azure environment, we act on your behalf and follow agreed policies. You’ll have full visibility into your systems through Azure’s dashboards and our reports. In fact, many clients feel they gain better control with Azure because everything is centrally visible and manageable (often more so than a spread-out on-premises setup). You can scale things, grant or revoke user access, or deploy new solutions with a few clicks – and we’re here to execute those changes for you reliably.
So, while we handle day-to-day operations, you retain ultimate control and ownership of your IT strategy in the cloud.
Azure supports a wide range of software stacks and configurations, so most likely we can run your specific software in the cloud. There are options to host legacy systems in Azure by using virtual machines or containerisation. For example, if you have an older application that requires a particular Windows Server version or a custom setup, we can provision an Azure VM that matches those requirements.
We have experience modernising or migrating legacy workloads – sometimes using Azure Virtual Machines, or if suitable, refactoring applications to use Azure App Services or other cloud-native approaches. We will assess your specific software or system and recommend the best way to host it on Azure. In some cases, it might be as simple as “lift-and-shift” (moving it into an Azure VM unchanged), while in others we might suggest tweaks to take advantage of Azure’s managed services.
Our goal is to ensure all your important applications run reliably in Azure, whether they are modern cloud apps or older systems brought into the cloud.
Azure offers robust disaster recovery (DR) and backup capabilities built into the platform. With Azure Site Recovery (ASR), we configure continuous replication of your critical virtual machines to a secondary Azure region (or from your on-premises data centre to Azure). If a primary location failure occurs, those machines can fail over and start up in the secondary location, reducing downtime dramatically. It’s like having a hot-standby data centre, but maintained by Azure.
For backups, Azure Backup service can routinely copy your servers, databases, or files to encrypted storage in the cloud. This replaces traditional tape or disk backups with a secure, off-site solution managed via Azure. We set up automated backup policies (daily, hourly, etc. as needed) and retention rules (to keep data for X days or months). In case of accidental deletion or an incident like ransomware, we can quickly restore data from Azure backups.
Combined, these DR and backup services ensure that even if the worst happens – from natural disasters to simple human error – your data is safe and your business can recover quickly with minimal data loss.
Computer One differentiates itself through our personalised service and mid-market focus. This means you get a level of attention and customisation that larger enterprises expect, but tailored to your scale and budget. We pride ourselves on being proactive partners – we don’t just set up Azure and leave it; we continually look for improvements and keep you informed with clear, jargon-free communication. Our team combines top-tier technical credentials (Microsoft certified engineers across Azure architecture, security, and administration) with real-world business understanding.
Clients often tell us that our responsiveness and willingness to go the extra mile is what sets us apart. It’s what leads to our consistently World-Class Net Promoter Score of +70 or higher. In short, we offer big-firm expertise with small-firm customer service, making us an ideal Azure partner for businesses that want dependable, flexible, and cost-effective service.
