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Explore how Crayon helps partners leverage the Azure cloud platform to build, run, and manage customer cloud environments.
Azure’s innovation lies in its service-based philosophy and structure. It brings together scalability, automation, AI, global coverage, and integration through cost-efficient cloud solution services.
Choose the mix of cloud and on-premises technologies that fit your solution and service line up, meet your customers’ diverse needs and help them stand out from competitors.
Crayons’ Technology Advisory Team (TAG) is a specialised unit that works with partners to build and grow their Azure practices.
TAG will bring expertise, guidance, enablement programs, incentives & complimenting services to help you build the best cloud solution for your client, including assessment and migration to Azure.
We do this all in-house as one of the leading Azure Expert MSP’s in the region.
The TAG team also helps partners to identify their current Solutions Partner Designation status and plan future accreditation pathways. This may include financial support to achieve acquired Microsoft Accreditations.
Migrating to Azure is an important step to unlocking the true benefits of cloud. Therefore, executing a well-planned migration will be definitive for your client.
We help you with guided assessments to get a holistic view of your IT estate in preparation for a migration project.
TAG and our Azure Expert MSP team ensures that you have access to the expertise, framework, governance, and funding required for a successful migration.
Backed by Microsoft commercially and technically.
Client information security is critical and covered with the security offerings in Azure. Whether its SIEM, DLP, Firewall or RBAC, all security offerings are available in Azure.
We work with partners to adopt Azure security solutions and improve security posture, backed with the right licenses, for the right users, at the right price.
Data and AI is a by-line for improving processes, efficiencies, and uncovering insights. It’s about gaining competitive ground, overcoming business challenges and innovation.
The TAG team can bring capability, expertise, and enablement to help you with your client opportunities. We will work with you to ensure critical needs and solution scope is well understood.
Crayon’s 10 years of proven in market experience will ensure you can position the best Data or AI solution, even demonstrating considerations such as return on investment and time to value.
Crayon is proud to be a Microsoft AI & Machine Learning Advanced Specialisation Partner (an elite club of only 14 such Global partners).
Partner of the year for Data & AI (2019 & 2022).
For example, a customer on a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement (EA) may get greater advantage by working with indirect reseller partners to acquire Azure solutions through the Microsoft CSP program.
As Microsoft’s Azure Expert MSP Partner, Crayon can execute EA to CSP migration as a billing change. This removes the need for technical migration or downtime* and has no impact on your business operations. We also offer partners a range of complementing services to help optimise Microsoft cloud & hosting windows environments.
Additionally, partners can make use of Azure Portal tools such as Azure Advisor and Azure Cost Management, Azure Auto-scaling to optimise their clients’ Azure services.
*Subject to workload type such as Azure marketplace items.
Azure Hybrid Benefit is a pricing program for customers who have licenses with Software Assurance. It maximizes the value of existing on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server license investments when you migrate to Azure. Save up to 40 percent* on Azure Virtual Machines, and up to 55 percent* on Azure SQL Database and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines with Azure Hybrid Benefit. Save up to 80 percent* when you combine Azure Hybrid Benefit with Azure Reserved Instances.
As part of the new commerce experience, an Azure plan gives you access to Azure services at standard pay-as-you-go rates under your Microsoft Customer Agreement.
Purchase Azure Reserved VM Instances for one-year or three-year terms directly in the Azure portal with a single, upfront payment or monthly billing. The monthly payment option is available at no extra cost. However, if you’re in a non-US-dollar market, your monthly payment amount may vary depending on the current month’s market exchange rate for your local currency.
To get started with Azure Arc, check out Azure Arc Jumpstart, which comes with prebuilt scenarios and demo environments.
Azure Arc lets you manage Windows and Linux physical servers and virtual machines hosted outside of Azure, on your corporate network, or other cloud provider. The management of hybrid machines in Azure Arc is designed to be consistent with how you manage native Azure virtual machines, using standard Azure constructs such as Azure Policy and applying tags.
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